About Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering

Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering

The Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering is an English-language journal of electrical engineering based in Beijing, associated with the China Electrotechnical Society, and identified in the candidate and directory records for this profile by ISSN 2095-9524. It is included in the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering's grading list of high-quality energy and power periodicals. It publishes research on electrical machines, power electronics, drives and electrical theory for an international readership, presenting Chinese electrical-engineering research in English.

An English-Language Journal for Chinese Electrical Engineering

Most of China's electrical-engineering research is published in Chinese, in journals such as the Proceedings of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering and the Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society. An English-language journal in the same field serves a different purpose: it presents the work of China's electrical engineers — in universities, institutes and industry — directly to the international research community, in the language in which that community reads and cites.

The Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering is such a title. Based in Beijing and associated with the China Electrotechnical Society, China's national society for electrotechnical science and engineering, it publishes in English on the core subjects of the discipline. Its inclusion in the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering's grading list of high-quality energy and power periodicals records its recognised standing within China's own system for evaluating power and energy journals.

The Societies in Its Background

Two related but distinct bodies frame the journal's context, and a careful profile should name both as the sources do. The China Electrotechnical Society is the journal's society, the national organisation for electrotechnical science whose community works on electrical machines, apparatus, power electronics and kindred subjects. The Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, the power-industry society founded in 1934, maintains the graded list of high-quality energy and power periodicals in which this journal is included — a sign that the journal is counted among the recognised titles of the wider Chinese power-publishing landscape.

That dual context places the journal at the meeting point of China's electrotechnical research community and its power-engineering establishment, which is precisely the audience its subject matter addresses.

Scope: Electrical Machines

Electrical machines — motors and generators and the theory, design and control that govern them — are the first documented element of the journal's scope. Machine research is one of the oldest branches of electrical engineering and remains a major Chinese research strength, driven by industrial motors, traction drives for rail and electric vehicles, wind generators and the vast range of machines in Chinese manufacturing.

Papers in this area address electromagnetic design, materials and cooling, losses and efficiency, and the modelling through which modern machines are developed. For an international journal, Chinese machine research is valuable material: China manufactures and studies more electric machines than any other country, and its results deserve the visibility that English-language publication provides.

Scope: Power Electronics and Drives

Power electronics — the conversion and control of electrical power by semiconductor devices — and electric drives, the systems that marry power electronics to machines, form the second documented element of the scope. These subjects sit at the centre of modern electrical engineering's growth: renewable-energy conversion, electric-vehicle drives, industrial motor control, power supplies and the power-electronic interfaces of the modern grid all depend on them.

A journal covering machines together with power electronics and drives covers the complete electromechanical energy-conversion chain, from converter to controlled machine. That combination defines a recognisable research community — the community of the electrotechnical society — and distinguishes this journal from power-system journals concerned with networks rather than with the devices and drives connected to them.

Scope: Electrical Theory

Electrical theory, the third documented element, is the foundation beneath the applied subjects: electromagnetics, circuit and field theory, and the analytical methods by which machines and converters are understood. A journal that retains theory within its scope alongside machines and drives maintains the discipline's intellectual structure, in which applied advances are reported together with the fundamental work that explains and enables them.

This breadth — theory, machines, power electronics and drives — is the classical territory of electrotechnical science as the Chinese society system organises it, and it gives the journal a coherent identity distinct from both power-system titles and electronic-engineering titles.

The international dimension deserves one further note. China's electrotechnical industry — its machine builders, converter manufacturers and drive suppliers — exports worldwide, and its research community publishes overwhelmingly in Chinese. An English-language society journal in this field therefore occupies a strategic place in the literature: it is one of the relatively few channels through which the design methods, test results and theoretical work behind that industry reach engineers abroad in citable form. Readers who follow world developments in electric machines and drives, and who cannot read the Chinese journals, depend on titles of this kind, together with the international conference literature, to know what Chinese laboratories are doing. That dependence is part of the journal's documented purpose in publishing for an international readership, and part of the reason its society maintains an English title alongside its Chinese ones.

International Readership

The journal publishes for an international readership, in English. Its readers are researchers and engineers in electrical machines, power electronics and drives worldwide, together with the Chinese authors and institutions who use English-language publication to place their work before that audience. For Chinese research groups, publishing in a society-associated English journal at home offers an international platform within their own scholarly system.

For readers abroad, the journal offers a route into Chinese work in fields where China's output is enormous but much of it appears only in Chinese journals. A single English-language society title cannot carry that whole output, but it provides a curated, citable selection of it.

Standing and Recognition

The journal's documented recognition is its inclusion in the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering's grading list of high-quality energy and power periodicals. Grading lists of that kind are China's mechanism for identifying the stronger journals in a field, and inclusion is a professional endorsement within the system that produces and reads the journal.

This profile records that recognition and the journal's society association, Beijing base, English language and documented scope, and does not attribute to the journal the metrics or history of other English-language Chinese electrical titles, with which it should not be confused.

Distinguishing the Title

English-language Chinese electrical-engineering titles are several, and their names are close. This journal is the China Electrotechnical Society's English-language title on machines, power electronics, drives and electrical theory, recorded here with ISSN 2095-9524 as given in the records behind this profile. It is distinct from the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering's power-and-energy-systems journal and from the Chinese-language Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, the society's senior Chinese title in the same broad field.

Keeping those titles separate — by society, language, scope and ISSN — is essential to a correct directory, and the distinctions are preserved in this record.

Why the Journal Matters

Electrical machines and power electronics are technologies in which China is both the largest manufacturer and a leading research producer, yet much of that research remains inaccessible to non-Chinese readers. An English-language, society-associated journal that carries this work to an international audience performs a documented and useful function in the world's electrical-engineering literature. The Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering is included in this directory on that basis, as a Beijing-based magazine and academic journal of electrical engineering.