Editorial for IEEE TransactionsOn Power Electronics, January 2013ORIGINALLY, this editorial was planned to be written in late 2012, but in the last year we have been working intensively with IEEE to reduce time from submission to final publication, and this editorial was written in the summer of 2012, and we are already in the process of finalizing the January issue 2013. This also means that we have two editors for this issue— Prof. B. Lehman, Northeastern University, is fully taking over the duty of Editor-in-Chief as of date January 1, 2013, and Prof. F. Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, is resigning from the job at that date. We have only 100–150 papers waiting for publishing, and keeping in mind 45–50 papers are needed for each issue, this is a short and manageable backlog. By making the electronic versions of manuscripts available so far ahead of time, papers become available for a longer time, and there is a good chance for more citations, which should increase the impact factor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS (TPEL).TPEL remains an outstanding Journal and it contributes dominantly to the power electronics technology and research development globally. The TRANSACTIONS performance is positioned very well in the global Electrical Engineering (EE) journals publications as it is among the top 10 most cited EE journals. In the last year, many indicators of our quality continued to improve: users of the TRANSACTIONS continue to be very satisfied with the paper quality, our reputation in power electronics is rising all over the world by having a fast review process, papers in the TRANSACTIONS are being cited more heavily, and we have continued to print useful future research on important and emerging industrial applications. Our publications are followed very carefully all over the world, and almost every month the TPEL has papers listed between the top 100 downloads from IEEE Xplore registered monthly. It is also worth remarking that the papers are mostly technology papers and not so much review papers.Power electronics has never been as important as it is now. Globally, people talk about global warming and the lack of energy resources. As a result, a number of large R&D programs have been initiated to come up with sustainable solutions based on power electronics. Excellent examples of power electronic emerging research topics and applications include energy effi- ciency, e-mobility and airplanes, micro- and smart-grid, renewable energy, e.g., wind power and photovoltaic, lighting—fields where power electronics are unavoidable. Many companies have had rapid growth because of power electronics technology—in many cases they are called the clean-tech industry.We still see an increased interest in TPEL. In 2011, we received morethan 1300 manuscripts including letters, and in 2012, we might exceed 1600 papers. A partial reason for this increase is that we regularly publish Special Issues on emerging power electronic trends. In 2012, we opened four Special Issues for future publication. One is in power electronics in photovoltaics, a second is in power electronics in dc-systems, a third is in power supply on chip, and the last one is on power electronics in transportation. All of them are expected to cover one issue of 40–50 papers. In future years, we will continue to publish special issues of the journal on emerging technical/research trends. These special issues are vital for several reasons. First, they present timely research to help create innovation. Second, they build an important base of publications that will allow potential authors to realize that we encourage future submissions on these emerging topics.In 2007, we published 2600 pages, and it has gradually been increased to 4000 pages in 2011, 5000 pages in 2012, and 5500 pages are projected for 2013. We have decided to publish 12 printed issues so every month a new issue will be printed. Fig. 1 shows the number of regular papers received in the past years as well as the number of published pages in the TPEL. We are working hard to keep a low review time, and still our goal is to be able to promise that no papers will have a first review time longer than 100 days. A few papers in the system are older than this (120 days), but this is not surprising due to the high number of submitted papers. Fig. 2 shows the time from submission to e-publication in the last period—as it can be seen it is less than one year (25–30 weeks), but it could be better. In the future, we hope to reduce this time even more, particularly for letters so that there is a mechanism for extremely fast publication of short, high-quality emerging forefront research results.The impact factor of a journal is used as a key number for the “quality” of the journal. It is a number reflecting how many times in average a journal paper is cited within three years after publication. More exactly, it is calculated based on an average value of the number of citations publications in, e.g., 2009 and 2010 have received in 2011. In 2008, we obtained a record high value for the impact factor as shown in Fig. 3, but in 2009 it was reduced a little. In 2010, we saw an increase and are among the top 10 of all published EE journals on a global scale. In 2011, it further increased to 4.6 which is a record high. There are three main reasons for our success: 1) the time from submission to publication has been significantly reduced— allowing the papers to be read over a longer time span; 2) Web of Science (ISI Thomsen Reuter) began to register new power electronics conferences in their database, and citations from conferences counts and contributes to a higher impact factor. Last year Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) became a part of this calculation, which was an important achievement for our society to obtain; and 3) finally, the number of power electronic relatedpublications has recently significantly increased, e.g., IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY,Journal of Power Electronics, IEE Power Electronics, and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID. However, we still have room for impact factor improvement, since many authors from our society have the a tradition to cite important papers from major conferences instead of journals, even though our TRANSACTIONS papers are completely peer reviewed and with the highest quality. Therefore, we still encourage all authors to acknowledge this by citing relevant journal papers in their work. Prior to submitting any manuscripts, whether to TPEL or a conference, a thorough study of past work should be performed. The authors should both look back in history and draw attention to the recent publications illustrating that the authors are complete aware of the state of the art. Still, we have the following general guidelines when submitting a publication to the TPEL: 1) All papers published in the TPEL should have an updated and comprehensive reference list. Only in the case of a real breakthrough less than 15–20 references will be accepted. It will be grounds for rejection of the paper if the reference list is too short and not up to date with recent publications. Use, e.g., Google Scholar or IEEEXplore to search for latest papers to the reference list. 2) TPEL is a leading Journal for power electronics, and it is expected that the authors have knowledge to and cite the latest papers published in TPEL. Journal papers are more in-depth peer reviewed than conference papers; therefore, those contributions are the most relevant for citing. Also, take a close look at other related journals as they are also publishing many important papers in the field—and the power electronics research field is moving very fast. 3) Do not send the same paper for review multiple places. It will overload the peer-reviewing system and it is not acceptable in the community. Manuscript Central is now providing a search tool across all journals checking if the same paper is reviewed in other journals. FREDE BLAABJERG, Editor-in-Chief until Dec. 31, 2012 Department of Energy Technology Aalborg University Aalborg East DK-9220 Denmark peleditor@ BRAD LEHMAN, Editor-in-Chief starting Jan. 1, 2013 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115 lehman@Frede Blaabjerg (S’86–M’88–SM’97–F’03) received the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, from 1987 to 1988. After completing the Ph.D. degree, he became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and has been a Full Professor of Power Electronics and Drives since 1998 at Aalborg University. He has been a part-time Research Programme Leader at Research Center Risoe in wind turbines. During 2006–2010, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Medicine at the same place and became a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, China, in 2009. His researchinterests include power electronics and its applications like wind turbines, PV systems, and adjustable speed drives. Dr. Blaabjerg has been the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS since 2006. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society, from 2005 to 2007 and followed up as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Industry Applications Society, from 2010 to 2011. He received the 1995 Angelos Award for his contribution in modulation technique and the Annual Teacher Prize at Aalborg University in 1995. In 1998, he received the Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has received ten IEEE Prize Paper Awards and another Prize Paper Award at the PELINCEC Poland 2005. He received the IEEE Power Electronics Society Distinguished Service Award in 2009 as well as the EPE-PEMC 2010 Council Award. Brad Lehman received the B.E.E. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Champaign, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1987, 1988, and 1992, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Bostan, MA, and previously was a Hearin Hess Distinguished Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was recently highlighted in the inaugural edition of the book The 300 Best Professors (Princeton Review, 2012). He performs research in the areas of power electronics, with emphasis on the modeling, design, and control of dc–dc converters with applications in solar energy, LED lighting, battery chargers, integrated magnetics, electric motor drives, and telecommunication power supplies. Dr. Lehman has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS for the past 10 years and, previously, was an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL. In 1999, he was a Science Advisor to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Science and Technology Committee (State Senate) for the Y2K issue in the Power Industry. He was an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow. He was a recipient of an Alcoa Science Foundation Fellowship.原文翻译如下：IEEE电力在电子产品上应用，2013年1月最初,这篇社论是计划写在2012年底,但是去年我们与IEEE正紧锣密鼓地减少时间从提交最终出版,这篇社论写于2012年的夏天,我们已经确定2013年1月发行的过程。