2018 MPCE Advisory Board & Editorial Board Meeting Held in Portland, USA
The 2018 Advisory Board & Editorial Board Meeting of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) was held on August 7th (UTC/GMT-7) in Portland, USA, during the IEEE PES General Meeting at Crowne Plaza Portland Downtown Convention Center.
Prof. Yusheng Xue, honorary president of the State Grid Electric Power Research Institute and Editor-in-Chief of MPCE, with the attendance of over 70 Advisory Board & Editorial Board members and experts from China, USA, UK, Denmark, Canada, Iran, etc.
Before the meeting, all the participants honored the memory of Prof. Kit Po Wong, the founding Vice Editor-in-Chief of MPCE.
The contents of the meeting include MPCE annual report, work plan, commendation award, exchange and discussions.
Prof. Yusheng Xue firstly made the MPCE annual development report. He reported encouraging progress which MPCE has achieved in recent years and expressed sincere appreciation to the entire Advisory Board & Editorial Board members of MPCE for their great contributions. Detailed analysis on the journal was also specified further.
Prof. Mohammad Shahidehpour, Carl Bodine Distinguished Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology and Vice Editor-in-Chief of MPCE followed up by introducing the newly selected editorial board members of MPCE and proposing development directions for MPCE in years to come.
During the meeting, board members witnessed the announcement of this year’s Most Cited Paper and Best Paper awards. The Most Cited Paper award went to team of Prof. A. Sarwat from Florida International University and team of A/Prof. L. Chen from Tsinghua University. Team of A/Prof. M. Maza-Ortega from University of Sevilla and team of A/Prof. J. Hu from Technical University of Denmark won the award of Best Paper. Prof. Yusheng Xue and Prof. Mohammad Shahidehpour issued certificates for their contributions to MPCE.
A large range of issues was warmly discussed throughout the meeting, including paper quality improvement, topic selection, review process promoting and international influence enhancement of the journal.
Launched in 2013, MPCE is all along determined to focus on internationalization proposed by Prof. Yusheng Xue. The editorial board consists of prestigious experts worldwide. To date, MPCE has been indexed by 13 major databases including SCI, Ei and Scopus. With its 2017 impact factor (IF) of 2.122 and the Q2 level ranking in Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition in the fields of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.