IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

About IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine: Journal Overview

IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine (IEM) is a quarterly magazine published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and sponsored by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), with its subscription included in the IES membership fee (source: IEEE author guidelines for the magazine). It has been published continuously since its launch in 2007 and is available in both print and electronic editions through IEEE Xplore, where it is registered under publication number 4154573 with print ISSN 1932-4529 and online ISSN 1941-0115 (sources: ieee-ies.org/pubs/industrial-electronics-magazine; ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/aboutJournal.jsp?punumber=4154573, accessed October 2026). Its CODEN is IIEMAW.

The first thing a reader should understand about this publication is that it is a magazine, not a traditional archival journal — and that distinction is central to its editorial identity. Where IEEE's Transactions titles exist to publish novel, fully validated research results, IEM exists to translate the field for a broad professional audience: it publishes peer-reviewed articles that surface emerging trends and practices in industrial electronics, report on product research and development, carry key insights from leaders in academia and industry, and deliver tutorial surveys across the field of interest of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (source: ieee-ies.org, paraphrased). All technical articles are peer-reviewed and held to IEEE publication standards; the magazine format governs the style and purpose of the articles, not their rigor.

That tutorial mission has made the magazine one of the most visible and widely cited periodicals in its space. In the Journal Citation Reports released by Clarivate, the magazine's most recent officially announced Journal Impact Factor (for 2023) is 5.6, placing it 53rd of 352 journals in the "Engineering, Electrical & Electronic" category with a JIF percentile of 85.1 — an improvement over the prior year (source: IEEE Industrial Electronic Technology News, iten.ieee-ies.org, July 2024 announcement). It is indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, and SCImago records an H-index of 94 and an SJR of 1.048 (2025), with Q1 placement in both Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

For readers, the magazine serves as the tutorial gateway to industrial electronics: the place to go when a new topic — digital twins, model predictive control, industrial cyber-physical systems — is emerging and the profession needs a readable, authoritative introduction before the primary literature matures. For authors, it is a venue where survey-style, tutorial, and application-oriented articles can reach the society's full membership rather than a narrow sub-specialty.

History of IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

The magazine was launched in 2007, with its first issue appearing in Spring 2007 as Volume 1, Number 1 — a dating confirmed by the society's own award records, which honor a paper from that inaugural issue (Ramu Krishnan's "An Energy-Efficiency-Enhanced Switched Reluctance Motor," vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4–6, Spring 2007) as the 2008 Best Paper Award recipient (source: ieee-ies.org Best Paper Award page). The award itself was established the same year the magazine launched, signaling the society's intent from the outset that the new periodical would be a flagship vehicle for tutorials and surveys of the highest quality.

The timing was not accidental. By 2007 the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society's Transactions were thriving as an archival journal, but the society — whose scope covers the theory and applications of electronics, controls, communications, instrumentation, and computational intelligence applied to industrial and manufacturing systems and processes — needed a complementary outlet that could inform its broad membership about developments moving quickly toward deployment. The magazine was designed to be that outlet: available to all IES members with subscription bundled into membership dues, published quarterly, and distributed in print and through the IEEE online library (source: IEEE author guidelines for the magazine).

Editorial continuity has been maintained through a sequence of editors-in-chief serving multi-year terms. Dr. Marco Liserre of the Politecnico di Bari, Italy, led the magazine in an earlier era (source: IEEE author guidelines document for the magazine). He was followed in more recent years by Prof. Eric Monmasson of CY Cergy Paris University (2022–2024), and from January 1, 2025 the editorship passed to Prof. Samir Kouro, whose term runs through 2027 (sources: ieee-ies.org/pubs/industrial-electronics-magazine; iten.ieee-ies.org January 2025 announcement, all accessed October 2026). Journal administration is handled by Dr. José Rueda of TU Delft, and ORCID identifiers are mandatory for all authors under the society's current policies.

Over nearly two decades, the magazine has documented the field's major transitions in tutorial form. Its award-winning and highly cited articles trace a clear arc: multilevel converters and switched reluctance motors in the late 2000s; smart grids and renewable energy integration around 2010–2012; battery management, contactless energy transfer, and model predictive control in the mid-2010s; industrial cyber-physical systems and cloud-based big-data infrastructure in the late 2010s; and digital twins, electric-vehicle charging infrastructure, and AI-driven approaches in the 2020s. A special 70th Anniversary Supplement of the Industrial Electronics Society was issued alongside the regular 2021 volume, marking the society's milestone (source: ieee-ies.org issues listing).

Leadership and Editorial Team

The magazine is currently led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Samir Kouro, formally in the role since January 1, 2025, serving a term through 2027. Kouro is based at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (41 Rue du Brill, L-4422 Belvaux, Luxembourg), and his appointment was advised by the IES Publication Committee and validated by the society's Administrative Committee (sources: ieee-ies.org/pubs/industrial-electronics-magazine; iten.ieee-ies.org, January 2025). He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2018) with a background spanning power electronics, photovoltaic systems, and advanced control, and he succeeded Prof. Eric Monmasson of CY Cergy Paris University, France, who served as Editor-in-Chief for the 2022–2024 term (source: ieee-ies.org).

The editorial structure supporting the magazine includes a full editorial board (listed on the society's website), a journal administrator — Dr. José Rueda, Associate Professor of Resilient Sustainable Energy Systems at TU Delft in the Netherlands — and a set of department editors who curate the magazine's recurring sections. Historically the departments have been handled by recognized specialists: for example, earlier author-guideline documents list Prof. Seta Bogosyan (educational/chapter news), Prof. Hiroshi Fujimoto (new products), Prof. Mariusz Malinowski (society news), Prof. Marian Kazmierkowski (book news), Prof. Bogdan M. Wilamowski, and Dr. Richard Zurawski on the editorial board (source: IEEE author guidelines document for the magazine).

Day-to-day policy for the society's periodicals is set through the IES Periodicals Editorial Policy and Guidelines and IEEE's publication policies, including IEEE's intellectual-property and multiple-submission rules. Since March 1, 2022, a distinctive submission requirement applies: the primary email address of every author listed on a submission must be an institutional address, introduced to protect author identity and integrity — submissions not complying are not put into the review process (source: ieee-ies.org, January 2022 announcement).

Aims & Scope

The magazine's official scope statement, published by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, describes a periodical that publishes peer-reviewed articles presenting emerging trends and practices in industrial electronics, reports on product research and development, key insights, and tutorial surveys, all addressed to the field of interest of the society's membership (source: ieee-ies.org; paraphrased here). The society's own field of interest is the theory and applications of electronics, controls, communications, instrumentation, and computational intelligence as applied to industrial and manufacturing systems and processes.

In paraphrase, the magazine's content mandate has three pillars:

• Trends, practices, and R&D reporting: articles that surface emerging developments in industrial electronics — frequently reporting technology developments, deployments, and trends to the profession for the first time — with an emphasis on work carrying tangible potential impact for the industrial electronics community.
• Tutorial surveys: accessible, authoritative overviews of theory and application areas, written so that both specialists and the broader society membership can follow them; the society's expanded scope description highlights areas such as electrical components and systems, smart grids, industrial cyber-physical systems, motion control, robotics and mechatronics, sensors and actuators, factory and building communication and automation, industrial digitalization, flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing, and industrial applications of artificial intelligence and data science (source: ieee-ies.org/pubs).
• Society and professional content: columns, news, and departments that keep the membership connected — including the Editor's Column and the IES President's Column, book news, educational news, chapter news, society news, a conference calendar, new-product announcements, "From Mind to Market" pieces on inventions and patents, "Past & Present" features on theoretical advances, and the closing "My View" column on emerging trends in the international industrial-electronics community (source: IEEE author guidelines for the magazine).

Article types accepted by the magazine include Features — mainly tutorials and surveys but also application-oriented papers — alongside the columns and departments above. The magazine places particular weight on reporting developments that reach the profession early: per the society's description, emphasis falls on technology developments, deployments, and trends that are frequently released to the profession for the first time through its pages (source: ieee-ies.org/pubs).

Peer Review and Editorial Process

Although it is a magazine rather than an archival journal, all technical articles in IEM are peer-reviewed and must respect IEEE publication standards (source: IEEE author guidelines for the magazine). The magazine format shapes the kind of article invited — tutorials, surveys, trend reports, application-oriented features — rather than relaxing the bar on correctness and scholarship. That is why the magazine is indexed in Web of Science and Scopus and carries a Journal Impact Factor: Clarivate and Elsevier treat it as a peer-reviewed serial publication.

Several policy points distinguish the magazine's editorial process:

• ORCID is required for all authors under current IES policy, and submissions are handled through the society's designated submission portal ("Submit your Paper" on the IES magazine page), with full instructions available through the IES Periodicals Editorial Policy and Guidelines and the IEEE Author Center.
• Institutional email mandate: since March 2022, the primary email address of every listed author must be an institutional address; papers that do not comply are not entered into review.
• Multiple-submission rules follow IEEE PSPB Operations Manual excerpts: simultaneous submission of the same work elsewhere is prohibited, and IEEE's intellectual-property guidelines apply.
• Award pipeline: the Editorial Board, chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, doubles as the committee for the society's annual Best Paper Award for the magazine, judged on tutorial service to the membership, industrial interest, reference value, and the ability to express theoretical content in accessible language with effective illustrations, tables, and graphs (source: ieee-ies.org Best Paper Award page).

Authors should note that the magazine's review criteria weight clarity and tutorial value heavily: an article that is technically correct but impenetrable to the society's general membership is a poor fit. The strongest submissions combine authoritative technical content with genuinely effective exposition — the same qualities the Best Paper Award explicitly rewards.

Impact and Metrics

The following metrics are taken from official or society-published sources, with years as published. Citation metrics are updated annually; readers should verify current figures on the official pages. Figures labeled as third-party in the sources note below should be treated accordingly.

A note on interpreting these numbers: the magazine's impact factor reflects its role as a tutorial and survey venue. Survey and tutorial articles are among the most-cited article types because they become the standard reference that later primary-research papers cite when positioning their work — so a strong impact factor here measures the magazine's success at producing articles the profession actually uses, rather than the selectivity of a research journal (general observation; the figures above are from the cited official sources).

Notable Articles and the IEM Best Paper Award

The IEEE Best Paper Award for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, established in 2007 alongside the magazine itself, recognizes the best paper published in IEM each year (source: ieee-ies.org). Administered by the IES Awards and Honors Committee with the magazine's Editorial Board — chaired by the Editor-in-Chief — as the award committee, it carries a prize of US$2,000 and certificates, plus reimbursement of travel expenses to receive the award (up to US$3,000), funded by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Papers are judged on the tutorial service they provide to the IES membership, their industrial interest and reference value, and their ability to express theoretical content in accessible language with effective illustrations, tables, and graphs — a judging standard that doubles as a statement of the magazine's editorial values.

The award's recipients, all published in the magazine and listed with their official DOIs, form a reading list of the field's most influential tutorial articles:

• 2008 (inaugural): Ramu Krishnan, "An Energy-Efficiency-Enhanced Switched Reluctance Motor," vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4–6, Spring 2007 — from the magazine's very first issue.
• 2009: Leopoldo G. Franquelo, Jose Rodriguez, Jose I. Leon, Samir Kouro, Ramon Portillo, and Maria A. M. Prats, "The age of multilevel converters arrives," vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 28–39, June 2008, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2008.923519.
• 2010: Bogdan Maciej Wilamowski, "Neural network architectures and learning algorithms," vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 56–63, Dec. 2009, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2009.934790.
• 2011: Marco Liserre, Thilo Sauter, and John Y. Hung, "Future Energy Systems: Integrating Renewable Energy Sources into the Smart Power Grid Through Industrial Electronics," vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 18–37, March 2010, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2010.935861.
• 2012: Xinghuo Yu, Carlo Cecati, Tharam Dillon, and Marcelo G. Simões, "The New Frontier of Smart Grids," vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 49–63, Sept. 2011, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2011.942176.
• 2014: Habiballah Rahimi-Eichi, Unnati Ojha, Federico Baronti, and Mo-Yuen Chow, "Battery Management System: An Overview of Its Application in the Smart Grid and Electric Vehicles," vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 4–16, June 2013, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2013.2250351.
• 2015: Sergio Vazquez, Jose I. Leon, Leopoldo G. Franquelo, Jose Rodriguez, Hector A. Young, Abraham Marquez, and Pericle Zanchetta, "Model Predictive Control: A Review of Its Applications in Power Electronics," vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 16–31, March 2014, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2013.2290138.
• 2019: Bo Cheng, Jingyi Zhang, Gerhard P. Hancke, Stamatis Karnouskos, and Armando Walter Colombo, "Industrial Cyberphysical Systems: Realizing Cloud-Based Big Data Infrastructures," vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 25–35, March 2018, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2017.2788850.
• 2020: Oscar Lucia, Hector Sarnago, Tomas Garcia-Sanchez, Lluis M. Mir, and Jose M. Burdio, "Industrial Electronics for Biomedicine: A New Cancer Treatment Using Electroporation," vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 6–18, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2019.2942377.
• 2022: Sebastian Rivera, Samir Kouro, Sergio Vazquez, Sebastian M. Goetz, Rene Lizana, and Emilio Romero-Cadaval, "Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure: From Grid to Battery," vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 37–51, June 2021, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2020.3039039.
• 2023: Vito G. Monopoli, Abraham Marquez, Jose I. Leon, Marco Liserre, Giampaolo Buticchi, Leopoldo G. Franquelo, and Sergio Vazquez, "Applications and Modulation Methods for Modular Converters Enabling Unequal Cell Power Sharing: Carrier Variable-Angle Phase-Displacement Modulation Methods," vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 19–30, March 2022, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2021.3080232.
• 2024: Haoyu Chen, Zhenbin Zhang, Petros Karamanakos, and Jose Rodriguez, "Digital Twin Techniques for Power Electronics-Based Energy Conversion Systems: A Survey of Concepts, Application Scenarios, Future Challenges, and Trends," vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 20–36, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2022.3216719.

Read together, these award citations tell the story of industrial electronics over the magazine's lifetime: from energy-efficient motors and multilevel converters through neural networks and smart grids, to battery management, model predictive control, industrial cyber-physical systems, EV charging infrastructure, and digital twins. A reader new to the field could do worse than to work through this list in chronological order.

Submission and Access

How to submit: Manuscripts are submitted through the society's submission portal, linked as "Submit your Paper" on the IES magazine page (ieee-ies.org/pubs/industrial-electronics-magazine), with detailed author instructions available there and through the IEEE Author Center. The magazine accepts Features (mainly tutorials and surveys, plus application-oriented papers) and contributions to its departments and columns. Prospective authors should study the institutional-email requirement (in force since March 2022), the mandatory ORCID policy, and IEEE's multiple-submission rules before submitting, and should confirm that their manuscript fits the magazine's tutorial-oriented scope — off-scope or purely archival research manuscripts are better directed to the society's Transactions titles.

How to read: The magazine is available in full on IEEE Xplore (publication 4154573; about page: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/aboutJournal.jsp?punumber=4154573), with issues archived from the 2007 launch. For IES members, the subscription is bundled into membership dues; the society's website lists all issues from 2015 onward by month (March, June, September, December), plus the 2021 70th Anniversary Supplement. Nonmembers can purchase individual copies or institutional subscriptions through IEEE.

Open access: Like other IEEE periodicals, the magazine supports optional open-access publication under IEEE's program. The magazine does not publish a fixed APC figure on its society page; authors considering open access should consult IEEE's current open-access fee schedule for the magazine's terms.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ISSN of IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine?
Print ISSN 1932-4529; online (electronic) ISSN 1941-0115 (sources: ieee-ies.org; IEEE Xplore about page).

Who publishes IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine?
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), headquartered in New York, USA. The magazine is sponsored by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and the subscription is included in IES membership dues.

Who is the current Editor-in-Chief?
Prof. Samir Kouro of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, serving since January 1, 2025 (term 2025–2027). He succeeded Prof. Eric Monmasson (2022–2024) (source: ieee-ies.org).

How often is it published?
Quarterly — issues appear in March, June, September, and December (source: ieee-ies.org issues listing).

Is IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine peer-reviewed?
Yes — all technical articles are peer-reviewed under IEEE publication standards. But note it is a magazine, oriented toward tutorials, surveys, trend reports, and application features, rather than an archival research journal. That tutorial orientation is a feature of its editorial mission, not a relaxation of rigor.

What is its Impact Factor?
The most recent officially announced Journal Impact Factor is 5.6 for 2023 (Clarivate JCR, announced by the IES technology-news channel in July 2024), ranked 53rd of 352 in Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; the 2022 figure was 6.3. Citation metrics are updated annually — verify current figures before citing.

Where do I submit a manuscript?
Through the submission portal linked from the society's magazine page (ieee-ies.org/pubs/industrial-electronics-magazine). Remember the institutional-email and ORCID requirements, and check the current author guidelines before submitting.

Does it charge an article processing fee?
No fixed APC is published by the magazine itself. Optional open access is available under IEEE's article-processing-charge program; check IEEE's current OA fee schedule for the magazine's terms.