About Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society

Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society

Overview and identity

The Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society (Chinese: 电工技术学报; pinyin: Diangong Jishu Xuebao) is the Chinese-language journal of the China Electrotechnical Society, published in Beijing by Chinese Machine Press. Founded in 1986, it carries ISSN 1000-6753 and publishes research across electrical engineering: electrical machines, power electronics, power systems, high-voltage engineering and electromagnetic fields. Among Chinese journals it is ranked in the first quartile (Q1) for electrical and electronic engineering, and Scopus coverage is recorded from 1998. It is the principal transactions-style journal of China's national electrotechnical profession.

The term electrotechnical — covering the generation, transmission, conversion and use of electric power and the machines and devices that perform those functions — defines a discipline at the heart of China's industrialisation. The society's Transactions, published since 1986, is where that discipline's research community has reported its work in Chinese for nearly four decades, and its Q1 standing among Chinese electrical journals marks it as one of the country's leading venues in the field.

History and founding

The journal was founded in 1986. Its sponsoring society, the China Electrotechnical Society, records its own foundation in 1981 as a national, non-profit academic society of electrical engineering — a product of the same reform-era institutional building that created many of China's modern professional societies. A society founded in 1981 launching its transactions journal in 1986 follows the classic sequence: first the professional community is organised, then its archival publication is established to give that community a permanent scientific record.

The journal's subsequent history tracks the electrification of China. Its early volumes belong to the era of rapid expansion of the Chinese power grid and domestic electrical manufacturing; its later volumes document the arrival of large-scale power electronics, high-voltage direct-current transmission, renewable-energy integration and electric traction and vehicles. Bibliometric records show the journal's Scopus coverage beginning in 1998 (with coverage recorded for 1998 and continuously from 2001), the point from which its contents enter the international citation system, and its recent impact indicators in those listings have risen markedly, reflecting the growing international weight of Chinese electrical engineering research.

Society, publisher and home

The journal is the journal of the China Electrotechnical Society and is published in Beijing by Chinese Machine Press, the publishing house historically associated with China's machinery and electrotechnical industries. Society ownership plus an industry press imprint is a characteristic Chinese arrangement: the society supplies the editorial community and disciplinary authority; the press supplies production, distribution and the connection to the engineering book and journal trade.

The society itself sustains a family of publications, including the English-language CES Transactions on Electrical Machines and Systems, published by the China Electrotechnical Society for international readers in the electrical machines field. The Chinese-language Transactions is the senior and comprehensive member of that family, covering the whole of electrical engineering rather than a single sub-field. Its Beijing base — the society's headquarters city and the seat of China's power-sector ministries, grid corporations and major electrical manufacturers' research centres — reinforces its national rather than regional character.

Scope: machines, drives and power electronics

The first great block of the journal's scope is the conversion of electrical and mechanical energy: electrical machines and power electronics. Papers on electrical machines cover the theory, design, analysis and testing of generators, motors and transformers, including the permanent-magnet, superconducting and high-speed machines that serve modern industry, transport and renewable generation. Papers on power electronics cover converter topologies, semiconductor power devices and their control, drives for electric vehicles and industrial motors, and the power-electronic interfaces through which wind, solar and storage connect to the grid.

These subjects are among the most industrially consequential in all of Chinese engineering research. China manufactures more electric machines and more power-electronic equipment than any other country, and the research published in the society's Transactions feeds directly into that industrial base. The journal's pages in this area characteristically combine electromagnetic analysis, thermal and mechanical design, control strategy and experimental validation — the full engineering chain from theory to prototype that the word transactions, in the tradition of the world's electrotechnical societies, has always implied.

Scope: power systems, high voltage and electromagnetic fields

The second great block of scope covers the systems and physical foundations of electrical engineering: power systems, high-voltage engineering and electromagnetic fields. Power-system papers address generation, transmission and distribution, grid stability and control, protection, and the integration of renewable energy and new loads into China's vast interconnected networks. High-voltage engineering covers insulation, overvoltage, discharge physics, and the equipment — transformers, switchgear, cables and arresters — of high- and ultra-high-voltage transmission, a field in which China has built the world's most extensive ultra-high-voltage grid. Electromagnetic-field papers provide the underlying theory for machine, device and system design.

The combination of these areas under one transactions title mirrors the structure of the profession itself. Electrical engineers working on a generator, a converter station or a transmission line share mathematical foundations in electromagnetic field theory and professional institutions in the national society, and their journal reflects that unity. For the directory user, the scope statement in the record — electrical machines, power electronics, power systems, high voltage engineering and electromagnetic fields — should be taken as a precise map of the journal's territory.

Standing: quartile rank and indexing

The journal's bibliometric standing is unusually strong for a Chinese-language title. SCImago's listings, built on Scopus data, place Diangong Jishu Xuebao/Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society in the first quartile (Q1) for Electrical and Electronic Engineering — the ranking recorded in the directory entry — with the publisher given as Chinese Machine Press and ISSN 1000-6753. Scopus coverage is recorded from 1998 and continuously from 2001 to the present in those listings, giving the journal a quarter-century of international citation visibility.

SciJournal's listing for the journal reports a steeply rising impact trajectory in recent years, consistent with the rapid growth of Chinese electrical engineering research output and citations. Within China, a society transactions journal with Q1 international standing occupies a dual position: it is simultaneously a leading domestic venue for Chinese-language publication and a journal whose contents are tracked by the international evaluation system. That dual standing explains the journal's importance to its authors, for whom publication in it counts in both domestic professional assessment and international bibliometric terms.

Article character and editorial function

As a transactions journal, the title publishes full research papers reporting completed investigations — theoretical analyses, design studies, simulations supported by experiment, and prototype and field results — across its scope. The genre conventions are those of the electrotechnical transactions tradition worldwide: rigorous treatment of electromagnetic and circuit fundamentals, quantitative design and performance data, and experimental confirmation wherever the subject permits. Papers are published in Chinese, serving the national professional community in its working language.

The journal's editorial function within the society is to set and maintain the research standard of Chinese electrotechnical science. By selecting and publishing the work it does, the Transactions identifies the directions — new machine topologies, new converter controls, new grid technologies — in which the national discipline is moving. Its volumes are consequently used not only as a source of individual results but as a barometer of Chinese electrical engineering research as a whole, read by the universities, grid-company research institutes and manufacturers whose staff form its authorship.

Readership and authorship

Readers of the journal are electrical engineers across China's power and manufacturing sectors: academics in the electrical engineering schools of the major technical universities; researchers in the institutes of the State Grid and China Southern Power Grid research systems and of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and development engineers in the electrical machinery, power electronics, rail traction, new-energy and electric-vehicle industries. It is a journal written by that community for itself, in Chinese, at research level.

Its authorship reflects the geography of Chinese electrical engineering, which is concentrated in the great technical universities and in the research centres of the power industry but extends to every province with a significant electrical manufacturing base. Because China's electrical engineering output is now the largest in the world, the journal's annual volume of papers constitutes a significant fraction of the global research record in machines, power electronics and power systems, and international researchers increasingly consult its Scopus records even when they cannot read the full Chinese text.

How to cite and identify the journal

The journal is identified by its Chinese title 电工技术学报, its English title Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, ISSN 1000-6753, its Beijing publication by Chinese Machine Press, its sponsorship by the China Electrotechnical Society and its founding in 1986. In Scopus and SCImago records the title appears in romanised form as Diangong Jishu Xuebao/Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society; both forms denote the same journal. It should be distinguished from the society's English-language CES Transactions on Electrical Machines and Systems (ISSN 2096-3564), a younger and narrower title, and from the Proceedings of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, which belongs to a different society (the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering) despite the similar name.

The potential for confusion between the China Electrotechnical Society and the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering is real in English-language directories, since both societies are Beijing-based and both publish leading electrical journals. The decisive identifiers are the society name and the ISSN: Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, ISSN 1000-6753, is the journal of the China Electrotechnical Society, founded 1986, and entries recording those facts will not mistake it for any other title.

Legacy and continuing role

Since 1986 the Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society has been the archival journal of China's electrotechnical profession, and its archive records the discipline's role in the country's transformation: the building of a national grid, the creation of a world-leading electrical manufacturing industry, and the current transition toward renewable generation, electrified transport and intelligent power systems. Its Q1 standing among Chinese electrical and electronic engineering journals confirms that this is not merely a historical role but a current one.

The journal's future is tied to the continuing centrality of electrical engineering in Chinese industrial strategy. Published in Beijing by Chinese Machine Press for the China Electrotechnical Society, under ISSN 1000-6753, it remains the comprehensive Chinese-language transactions of its discipline — the venue in which Chinese electrical engineers, as a organised national profession, publish the research by which their field advances.