Power Electronics and Drives

Editor-in-Chief
Teresa Orlowska-Kowalska, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Mateusz Dybkowski, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

Editorial Advisory Board
Pavol Bauer, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Murat Barut, Omer Halisdemir University, Turkey
Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark
Giuseppe Buja, University of Padova, Italy
Chandan Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Goga Cvetkovski, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia
Josep M. Guerrero, Aalborg University, Denmark
Marko Hinkkanen, Aalto University, Finland
Vladimir Katić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Marian P. Kaźmierkowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Mariusz Malinowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Eric Monmasson, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France
Mario Pacas, Siegen University, Germany
Bogdan M. Wilamowski, Auburn University, USA
Jan Vittek, Technical University Žilina, Slovak Republic
Zheng Wang, School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, China

Associate Editors

Section Editors
Power electronic converters
Yihua Hu, King's College London, London, UK
Atif Iqbal, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Robert Stala, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

Electrical machines and drives
Ernest Mendrela, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Xiao Chen, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Bo Wang, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Diagnostics in power electronics and drive systems, fault tolerant control
Moussa Boukhnifer, Lorraine University, Metz, France
Raphael Romary, Artois University, Béthune, France

State variable and parameter estimation for sensorless drives and advanced control strategies
Karol Kyslan, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
Emrah Zerdali, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Eduardo Rodriguez Montero, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Motion control systems and mechatronics, machine intelligence
Seiichiro Katsura, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
Stefan Brock, Poznan University of Technology, Poznañ, Poland

Renewable energy systems and smart grid technologies
Dao Zhou, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Grzegorz Iwanski, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland

Electric vehicles and industry automation
Ritesh Keshri, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India
Anand Rao, Otis Elevators, India

Publisher
De Gruyter Poland
Bogumiła Zuga 32A Str.
01-811 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 701 50 15

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Submission Guidelines for the PEAD

All manuscripts should be submitted electronically on journal's Editorial System. They should be prepared in an electronic format ('doc', 'docx' or 'pdf' files) and less than 32 MB. Please note that the first-time users of the PEAD system have to create an account and follow the submission instructions.

• Only original, unpublished yet scientific papers will be published in Power Electronics and Drives.
• All articles will be reviewed by minimum two reviewers.
• There are no page charges: the journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.
• The manuscripts submitted for publication in PED should not exceed 20 pages of PED's template.
• The manuscripts, written in UK English, should be typed using a PED template (please remember that equations should be written using MathType or Miscrosoft Equation Editor ).
• Papers that fail to meet basic standards of literacy are likely to be declined immediately by the editors.
• post-conference papers are also accepted, provided that appropriate changes are made to the original manuscript (min. 50%) - in case of doubts, please contact EiC
• all manuscripts are checked with iThenticate anti-plagiarism software. In the case of plagiarism or allegation of research misconduct the paper will not be published until the authors refer to the doubts.

Articles appear on the web page continuously – Open Volume Mode.

Power Electronics and Drives journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.

To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not show their identity.
Names and affiliations under the title the manuscript should be removed in the first version of the paper.

The following templates are recommended to prepare a paper for PED journal:
PED template in Word
PED template in PDF
Recommended file format: Word

In the final version of the paper, changes suggested by the reviewers (and other) must be marked with other color.

Information about reviewing process

During reviewing process the reviewer is obliged to state whether there is a conflict of interest. Then he/she should check whether the ethical requirements are met. If this second condition is not fulfilled (eg. the work bears the hallmarks of plagiarism), the article is rejected.

During the second part of the reviewing process the detailed evaluation of the manuscript is performed. The reviewer assesses the compliance of the article subject with the profile of the journal,
Reviewer check the scope of the paper, significance, novelty of the issues raised and structure of the paper (abstract, keywords, way of the presentation, discussion quality, references, etc.). Significance of the obtained results is one of the most important issues evaluated by the reviewer.
Reviewer also checks the English grammar and spelling, correct PEAD format of a paper.
All the above aspects of the manuscript are rated on a scale of 0-6. If any of the aspects is rated at 0, the article is rejected.
The reviewer is required to provide a detailed comments and assessment for the authors and editors.

List of reviewers is presented on the web page www.ped.pwr.edu.pl/Reviewers,313.html

Open Access Statement

The journal is an Open Access journal that allows a free unlimited access to all its contents without any restrictions upon publication to all users.

Open Access License

Rejection rate in journal Power Electronics and Drives (for two last years) is equal 32.65%

Average waiting time for reviews - 35 days.
Average article publication time 64 days

More information:

Mateusz Dybkowski
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Department of Electrical Machines, Drives and Measurements
ul. Smoluchowskiego 19, 50-370 Wroc³aw, Poland

phone: (+48) 71 3203246
fax: (+48) 71 3203467
mateusz.dybkowski(at)pwr.edu.pl
ped(at)pwr.edu.pl
www.ped.pwr.edu.pl