IEEE Power Electronics Magazine

About IEEE Power Electronics Magazine

About IEEE Power Electronics Magazine

IEEE Power Electronics Magazine is the member magazine of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), published quarterly by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Its print ISSN is 2329-9207 and its electronic ISSN is 2329-9215; its IEEE coden is IPEMDG, and its articles are distributed through IEEE Xplore. The magazine was launched in 2014, when the PELS Newsletter transitioned into a magazine — the society's publications manual records the transition, OpenAlex records a first publication year of 2014 — and on 19 March 2025 the society celebrated the magazine's tenth anniversary at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Power Electronics Society describes the magazine, in its own publications manual, as the primary PELS product aimed at members working in industry, and its mission statement — printed in the magazine itself — is to educate, inform and entertain its community of society members on technology, events, industry news and general topics relating to all electronic power conversion, in any application or market, and to serve and support members in professional career development by delivering educational content. Its tagline is "For your engineering success." That mission marks the title's genre: it is a society magazine, not a transactions — a peer-reviewed periodical deliberately written for practising engineers as much as for academics, in which tutorials, design practice, industry analysis and community life carry weight equal to research novelty.

Scope and Subject Coverage

The society's official statement of scope, published on its magazine pages, defines the field precisely: the magazine publishes peer-reviewed articles related to power electronics and its applications, encompassing the effective use of electronic components, the application of control theory and circuit design techniques, and the development of analytical tools used in efficient and effective energy conversion, control, utilisation and conditioning of electric power — limited to the field of interest of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Around that technical core sit the magazine's distinctive layers: publication of new trend technologies being pursued by industry, design practices and case studies, a significant amount of state-of-the-art surveys and tutorials, and non-technical contributions — news about society activities, interviews and historical articles.

OpenAlex's topic profile of the magazine's 1,653 recorded works shows what that scope produces in practice. The largest topic is Advanced DC-DC Converters (376 works), followed by Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies (208) and Multilevel Inverters and Converters (155) — the wide-bandgap and converter-topology revolution rendered in magazine form — then Engineering Education and Pedagogy (90), GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (79), Power Systems and Renewable Energy (75), and a notable strand on conferences and professional community life (74). The applications behind those topics are the working world of power electronics: electric-vehicle powertrains and charging, photovoltaic and wind conversion, data-centre and server power (the March 2026 issue theme in the society's editorial calendar is "Servers and AI"), telecommunications supplies, industrial drives, and aerospace and defence power. A reader who follows the magazine across a year receives, in effect, a curated survey of where power conversion is going — devices, topologies, control, packaging, standards and markets — written at a level a practising engineer can use on Monday morning.

The Magazine as a Community Institution

What most distinguishes this title from a research journal is its column structure, set out in the society's 2026 media documentation. Recurring quarterly columns and features include the President's Message, Industry Pulse, the PSMA Corner (from the Power Sources Manufacturers Association), Women in Engineering, Students and Young Professionals, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion coverage, an Entrepreneur column, Patent Reviews, Expert View, a South American Power Electronics feature, and the Empower a Billion Lives initiative — alongside interviews, society news and historical articles. The magazine is distributed to the society's worldwide membership, which the same documentation puts at more than 15,000 members as of September 2025, and bonus copies are distributed at major trade shows; individual copies are priced for members and non-members in the magazine's masthead information, and the annual subscription for society members is included in PELS member dues — the masthead of the print edition (ISSN 2329-9207, IPEMDG) states that it is published quarterly by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., from its New York headquarters with its service centre at Piscataway, New Jersey.

The magazine is also an award-recognised title: the society presents it as recognised for excellence in both feature-article content and its quarterly columns. Its editorial leadership is a society appointment — the society ran an open call for the Editor-in-Chief term beginning January 2025 — and all articles appearing in the magazine must undergo a rigorous peer-review process, as the editorial calendar notes, with lead times that allow for review, conditional acceptance and revision before final approval. Authors should therefore not mistake the magazine format for a light review standard: the writing is accessible, but the technical content is refereed.

The Field the Magazine Serves

Power electronics — the conversion and control of electric power by semiconductor switching — is one of the enabling technologies of the energy transition, and the magazine's decade coincides with the field's fastest expansion. The wide-bandgap revolution is its clearest storyline: silicon carbide and gallium nitride devices, which together account for nearly three hundred of the magazine's OpenAlex-classified works, moved during its lifetime from laboratory promise to the default choice in electric-vehicle traction inverters, fast chargers, solar inverters and high-density server supplies, and the magazine's tutorials and industry coverage tracked each step — device characterisation, gate-drive practice, packaging and thermal design, reliability, and the supply-chain and cost questions that decide adoption. Converter topologies form the second storyline: the 376 DC-DC converter works and 155 multilevel-inverter works in its profile reflect a field continuously re-architecting itself around higher voltage, higher frequency and higher density, from resonant and soft-switching converters to multilevel systems for grid-scale storage and renewable integration. Control is the third: the scope statement's emphasis on control theory and analytical tools is borne out in content that translates digital control, modelling and stability analysis into design procedure for practising engineers.

The application landscape gives the magazine its breadth. Electric and hybrid vehicles bring traction drives, on-board and off-board charging, and wireless power transfer (a PELS technical committee area whose leadership appears in the magazine's pages). Renewable energy brings photovoltaic and wind conversion and the grid-integration questions of a converter-dominated power system. Data centres bring the server-power problem that the society put at the head of its 2026 editorial calendar — "Servers and AI" — as artificial-intelligence loads drive rack densities and efficiency requirements to new levels. Industrial drives, aerospace power, consumer electronics and rail complete a beat in which almost every electrification story of the decade has a power-electronics chapter, and the magazine's self-assigned job is to write those chapters for the whole community at once: researcher, designer, manager, student and historian of the field. Its historical articles and interviews serve that job directly, recording how the field's institutions, companies and ideas developed while the participants can still tell the story — a function no transactions journal performs.

For students and young professionals the magazine functions as an induction into the profession: career-development content is written into its mission statement, its Students and Young Professionals column is a standing feature, and its tutorial style — refereed but expository — makes it the PELS publication a newcomer can actually read cover to cover. For industry engineers it is the society's primary product, in the manual's own words. For academics it is the place to publish the survey or the application study whose value lies in synthesis and guidance rather than in a theorem. That three-way address is rare among engineering periodicals and explains the citation pattern: the magazine's most-used articles are the ones the whole community, not one sub-speciality, needs.

Metrics and Indexing

The bibliometric record is that of a young, well-cited magazine. OpenAlex (source S2764701082) records 1,653 works, 7,213 citations, an h-index of 42, an i10-index of 140 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.92 — the strongest citation figures in this profile set, driven by highly cited tutorial and survey articles on converters and wide-bandgap devices. SCImago-derived services place the magazine at SJR 0.583–0.611 (the range reflects different data years), with an h-index of 36–38 on the same services, Scopus coverage from 2014 to 2025, and Q2 positions in Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Energy Engineering and Power Technology; a Scopus CiteScore of 3.4 is carried by journalsearches' metrics summary. Those aggregator figures are attributed here as such; the primary facts — Scopus coverage and the Clarivate listing — are independently visible: Clarivate's Master Journal List records IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, publisher IEEE at Piscataway, ISSN 2329-9207 / eISSN 2329-9215, in the Emerging Sources Citation Index of the Web of Science Core Collection. ESCI listing means the magazine is inside the Web of Science system and evaluated within it; researchers should check the Master Journal List for its current status rather than assuming a Journal Impact Factor, since ESCI titles have historically been listed without one and Clarivate's practice has been evolving.

On access: the magazine is a subscription and member-benefit title, not an open-access journal. OpenAlex classifies it as not open access (while recording 668 openly accessible works among its 1,653, reflecting hybrid and author-shared versions), and a direct search of the DOAJ on both ISSNs returns no listing. OpenAlex carries historical article-processing-charge data for the title (USD 2,995 in its 2020–2021 records, for the open-access option); authors considering that route should confirm the current charge with IEEE at submission. Print copies reach PELS members as a dues benefit; the authoritative access route for the full archive is IEEE Xplore, punumber 6570649 in the magazine's OpenAlex homepage record.

Publishing in IEEE Power Electronics Magazine

Submissions are handled through the society's magazine channels and IEEE's manuscript systems; the society publishes an annual editorial calendar naming each issue's theme and manuscript deadline — the 2026 calendar, for example, leads with Servers and AI for the March issue, with other themes and features announced sixty days ahead — and intending authors should write to a forthcoming theme or column where possible. House expectations, drawn from the society's own documents, are these:

• Peer review is rigorous and scheduled. The calendar's lead times exist to accommodate full review and revision; plan months, not weeks, between submission and the issue.
• Write for industry readers. The magazine's stated readership focus is the practising engineer: emphasise design practice, case evidence, trade-offs and usable guidance over formal novelty, and explain significance in application terms.
• Tutorials and surveys are flagship content. A state-of-the-art survey that organises a fast-moving topic — a device technology, a topology family, a control method, a standard — fits the magazine's core mission and historically earns its strongest citations.
• Community contributions have their own channels. Interviews, historical pieces, society news and column material follow the magazine's feature structure rather than the research-article route; the Women in Engineering pages, for example, publish magazine articles by PELS members alongside professional-development programming.
• Respect the distinction from the Transactions. Archival, theory-first research belongs in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics or the society's other journals; the magazine is for the same science, engineered into practice-facing form.

Is This Journal Right for Your Work?

IEEE Power Electronics Magazine is the right venue if you work in power electronics and want your article read by the field's practitioners — design engineers in industry, applications engineers, and the society's more than 15,000 members — as well as by academics. It suits tutorials, surveys, design and application case studies, technology-trend analysis and historically or professionally significant pieces, and its citation record shows that its best articles are heavily used. It is indexed in Scopus and in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, which satisfies many institutional requirements. It is not the right venue for a first archival disclosure of new theory (that is the Transactions' role), for work outside the PELS field of interest, or where a traditional Journal Impact Factor is a hard requirement — verify the current Clarivate status for your evaluation year. Judged on its own terms — a decade of quarterly publication, a defined community mission, refereed practice-facing content and the strongest citation footprint of any title in this group — it has become the power-electronics field's magazine of record.

How to Verify This Magazine's Record

Verification anchors for this title are unusually clean. Identity: print ISSN 2329-9207, electronic ISSN 2329-9215, coden IPEMDG, IEEE Xplore publication number 6570649, OpenAlex source S2764701082 and Wikidata item Q96330729 all resolve to the same magazine. Authority: the IEEE Power Electronics Society's own pages state the scope, the mission and the anniversary history, and its publications manual records the 2014 transition from the PELS Newsletter. Indexing: Clarivate's Master Journal List entry (publisher IEEE, Piscataway; ISSN 2329-9207 / eISSN 2329-9215; Emerging Sources Citation Index) and the SCImago record built on Scopus (coverage 2014–2025) provide the independent cross-checks. A claim that cannot be traced to one of those anchors — a specific impact factor for a given year, an acceptance rate, a review turnaround — should be confirmed with IEEE or the society before it is relied on; none is asserted in this profile beyond what those sources show.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of IEEE Power Electronics Magazine?
Print ISSN 2329-9207; electronic ISSN 2329-9215; IEEE coden IPEMDG.

Who publishes it?
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., as the magazine of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS); OpenAlex lists the host organisation as IEEE, country United States.

When did it start, and how often does it appear?
It began in 2014, succeeding the PELS Newsletter, and is published quarterly; the society celebrated its tenth anniversary at APEC in Atlanta on 19 March 2025.

Is it peer-reviewed and indexed?
Yes — the society states that all articles undergo rigorous peer review. It is covered by Scopus (2014–2025 in SCImago data) and listed in Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index per the Master Journal List.

What are its citation metrics?
OpenAlex records 1,653 works, 7,213 citations and an h-index of 42; SCImago-derived services give SJR 0.583–0.611 by year and Q2 positions in its three subject categories.

How does the magazine differ from IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics?
The Transactions is the society's primary archival research journal: monthly, theory- and novelty-first, written for researchers. The Magazine is quarterly and practice-facing: refereed tutorials, surveys, design practices, case studies, industry and community content, published — in the society manual's words — as the primary PELS product for members working in industry. The same author may properly publish the archival result in the Transactions and its practice-facing synthesis in the Magazine.

What does it cost to read?
The masthead states that the annual subscription is included in IEEE Power Electronics Society member dues; individual copies are priced per copy for members and non-members (the 2023 masthead lists US$20 for a member's first copy and US$109 per copy for non-members), and the archive is accessed through IEEE Xplore subscriptions. Current prices should be confirmed with IEEE, as masthead prices change by year.

Is it open access?
No. It is a subscription title distributed as a PELS member benefit and through IEEE Xplore; a DOAJ search on both ISSNs returns no listing.

What is the magazine's abbreviation and how is it cited?
It is cited as IEEE Power Electron. Mag. in SCImago-derived records, and its articles carry IEEE DOIs under the magazine's Xplore publication record (publication number 6570649), with volume and issue numbering running quarterly from its 2014 launch — volume 10, number 2, for example, is the June 2023 issue.

Who should read it?
Power-electronics engineers in industry, researchers who want the field's tutorial and survey literature, students entering the profession, and anyone tracking electrification technology — vehicle powertrains, renewable conversion, data-centre power and industrial drives — through the society that represents the field, in a refereed magazine written to be read rather than only cited.