2022 MPCE Editorial Board Meeting Held Online 

The 2022 Editorial Board Meeting of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) was held on August 31, 2022. Due to the COVID-19, the meeting was still held online. More than 50 editorial board members and experts from China, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Italy, France, Finland, Norwary, Iceland, Iran, Egypt, Colombia, Mexico, and other countries and regions attended the meeting.

The contents of the meeting mainly included welcome speech by the Editor-in-Chief (EiC), MPCE annual working report, promotion activities, publication schedule of Special Sections, and discussion session.

Prof. Yusheng Xue, Honorary President of State Grid Electric Power Research Institute and EiC of MPCE, firstly gave a welcome speech and expressed his appreciation for the editorial board members for their great support to the steady development of MPCE. He also introduced the work of the Senior Editorial Advisor (SEA) for EiC, Prof. Bikahs Pal (Imperial College London, UK), and the Vice Editor-in-Chiefs of MPCE - Prof. Chi Yung Chung (The Hong Kong Polytecnic University, China), and Prof. Antonio Gomez-Exposito (University of Sevilla, Spain), including inviting papers, handling manuscripts, and promoting MPCE. Prof. Xue expressed his deep thanks for their outstanding contributions. He also welcomed new Editorial Board Members that joined MPCE this year.

Prof. Bikash Pal presented the 2021-2022 MPCE annual working report. He reviewed MPCE’s progress in the increasing number and quality of paper, statistic data, international influence, etc. He also presented strategies for improving the handling speed of manuscripts, and increasing the visibility of MPCE papers. Besides, this year’s MPCE excellent associate editors award was also announced.

Later, Prof. Chi Yung Chung introduced the details of MPCE’s promotion activities in the past year, and thanked the Editorial Board Members who had made contributions. He further proposed suggestions and schedules for journal promotion.

Later, Prof. Antonio Gomez-Exposito introduced the details of published Special Sections in the last three years in MPCE, and the publication shcedule of Special Sections in 2023. He called on Editorial Board Members to give more suggestions.

Finally, the participating editors and experts discussed issues such as special sections of the journal, paper quality, review process, fast online publication, marketing and promotion, etc.

The success of this meeting shows that MPCE holds firmly to its strategy of internationalization. Valuable suggestions have been received from experts on many related aspects, which are conducive for enhancing the quality as well as the international influence 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 major databases including SCIE, Ei, Scopus, CNKI, CSCD, etc. Based on the Journal Citation Report (JCR) released in June 2022, the 2021 impact factor of MPCE is 4.469, and the total citations are 2973. The 2021 CiteScore of MPCE published by Scopus is 8.70. The data shows that MPCE maintains a healthy state of increase in international influence.