Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) welcomes articles from a wide range of approaches and encourages submissions from the broader fields of power engineering from around the world. It covers, but is not limited to, the following scope:

  • Electric power generation;
  • Transmission and distribution;
  • Energy conversion;
  • Electrical machinery;
  • Sustainable energy;
  • Insulation;
  • Solar energy;
  • High-power semiconductors;
  • Power quality;
  • Power economic;
  • FACTS;
  • Renewable energy;
  • Electromagnetic compatibility;
  • Electrical engineering materials;
  • High voltage insulation technologies;
  • High voltage apparatuses;
  • Lightning, protection system;
  • Power system analysis;
  • SCADA; and
  • Electrical measurements.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

Institue of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES) are members of CrossCheck by CrossRef and iThenticate. IAES uses Plagiarism Detection Software – iThenticate to screen for plagiarism before publication. This journal operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer's name is always concealed from the submitting author. Authors should present their papers honestly without fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or inappropriate data manipulation. Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation. Papers will be sent for anonymous review by at least two reviewers who will either be members of the Editorial Board or others of similar standing in the field. In order to shorten the review process and respond quickly to authors, the Editors may triage a submission and come to a decision without sending the paper for external review. The Editor shall inform you of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully in 8-12 weeks. The Editors’ decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into concerning manuscripts considered unsuitable for publication in this journal. All correspondence, including notification of the Editors’ decision and requests for revisions, will be sent by email.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal adhere to the best practice and high publishing standards and comply with the following conditions:

  1. Provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge;
  2. Allows the author to hold the copyright and to retain publishing right without restrictions;
  3. Deposits content with a long term digital preservation or archiving program;
  4. Uses DOIs as permanent identifiers;
  5. Embeds machine-readable CC licensing information in articles;
  6. Allows generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with CC BY-NC license;
  7. Can provide article level metadata for any indexers and aggregators;
  8. Has a deposit policy registered wíth a deposit policy registry, e.g. Sherpa/Romeo.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES) is a non-profit international scientific association of distinguished scholars engaged in engineering and science, devoted to promoting research and technology development through digital dissemination. IAES Journals are peer-reviewed international journals. This statement defines the ethical behavior expected from all parties involved in publishing: authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers. This policy is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

General Ethical Principles

  • Publication of a research article contributes to the development of scientific knowledge.
  • All submitted manuscripts must meet ethical standards and research integrity.
  • Editors, reviewers, and authors must follow fair, transparent, and unbiased practices.
  • IAES ensures editorial independence and no commercial influence in publication decisions.

Publication Decisions

Editors are responsible for deciding which submitted articles are published based on originality, validity, and scientific contribution. Decisions may be guided by editorial board policies and applicable legal requirements such as plagiarism, copyright, and libel regulations. Editors may consult reviewers or other editors in making final publication decisions.

Editorial Responsibilities

  • Fair Play: Manuscripts are evaluated based on academic merit, without discrimination of race, gender, religion, nationality, or political belief.
  • Confidentiality: Submitted manuscripts must remain confidential and only shared with authorized parties.
  • Conflict of Interest: Editors must not use unpublished information for personal research without author consent.

Duties of Reviewers

  • Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists editors in publication decisions and helps authors improve their work.
  • Promptness: Reviewers must decline if they are unqualified or unable to complete the review on time.
  • Confidentiality: Manuscripts must be treated as confidential documents.
  • Objectivity: Reviews must be conducted objectively without personal criticism.
  • Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers should identify missing citations or overlap with other works.
  • Conflict of Interest: Reviewers must not review manuscripts where conflicts of interest exist.

Duties of Authors

  • Reporting Standards: Authors must present accurate and transparent research data.
  • Data Access: Authors should retain and provide access to raw data when required.
  • Originality: All submitted work must be original and properly cited.
  • Multiple Publication: Duplicate submission or publication is unethical.
  • Authorship: Only individuals who contributed significantly should be listed as authors.
  • Hazards: Any risks related to chemicals, procedures, or equipment must be disclosed.
  • Conflicts of Interest: All financial or personal conflicts must be declared.
  • Corrections: Authors must notify the journal if significant errors are discovered after publication.

 

Abstracting and Indexing

The International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) (ISSN 2252-8792) is indexed in Scopus and covered by SCImago Journal Rank (SJR). According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) classification, IJAPE is positioned in the Q2 quartile within the Multidisciplinary subject area, reflecting its visibility and impact across interdisciplinary research domains. Based on Scopus and SJR subject categorization, the journal is indexed under multiple research areas, including Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Multidisciplinary fields. Through inclusion in major international indexing and abstracting services, IJAPE ensures broad visibility, accessibility, and dissemination of published research to the global scientific community.


Scopus
Elsevier Abstract and Citation Database		SJR
Journal Impact & Ranking System based on Scopus data


Other Abstracting & Indexing Services

 

IJAPE Guide for Authors and Template

URGENT!! Pay attention to the following instructions carefully! Please prepare your final paper by doing your best to avoid any delay for publication!!! YOU MUST DO IT!!!

1). PLEASE ADHERE STRICTLY THE GUIDE OF AUTHORS http://iaescore.com/gfa/ijape.docx (Use this file as your paper template!!)

2). It is mandatory to present your final paper according to "IMRADC style" format, i.e.:
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. The Proposed Method/Algorithm/Procedure specifically designed (optional)
     3. METHOD
     4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
     5. CONCLUSION
     See http://iaescore.com/gfa/ijape.docx

3). Add biographies of authors as our template (include links to the 4 authors' profiles, do not delete any icons in the template). Provide links for all authors to the 4 icons (Scholar, Scopus, Publons and ORCID). It is mandatory!!

4). Prepare all your tables strictly adhere the guidelines (NOT as figure)

5). Use different PATTERNS for presenting different results in your figures/graphics  (instead of different colors). It is mandatory!!

6). Please ensure that all references have been cited in your text. Use a tool such as EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero for reference management and formatting, and choose IEEE style. Each citation should be written in the order of appearance in the text in square brackets. For example, the first citation [1], the second citation [2], and the third and fourth citations [3], [4]. When citing multiple sources at once, the preferred method is to list each number separately, in its own brackets, using a comma or dash between numbers, as such: [1], [3], [5]. It is not necessary to mention an author's name, pages used, or date of publication in the in-text citation. Instead, refer to the source with a number in a square bracket, e.g. [9], that will then correspond to the full citation in your reference list. Examples of in-text citations:
    This theory was first put forward in 1970 [9].
    Blaabjerg [10] has argued that ...
    Several recent studies [7], [9], [11]-[15] have suggested that....
    ... end of the line for my research [16].

We usually expect a minimum of 2n+9 references (for original research paper) and 4n+18 (for review/survey paper) primarily to journal articles, where n=page length of your papers (in simple words for 8 pages, number of references are min 25 for research papers, and 50 entries for review/study papers). Citations of textbooks should be used very rarely and citations to web pages should be avoided. All cited papers should be referenced within the text of the manuscript.

7). Please present all references as complete as possible and use IEEE style (include information of DOIs, volume, number, pages, etc). If it is available, DOI information is mandatory!! See http://iaescore.com/gfa/ijape.docx


Please also pay an attention to double check your final camera ready paper:
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(1) Introduction section: explain the context of the study and state the precise objective. Introduction section should be presented in 3-6 paragraphs. An Introduction should cover the following three (3) parts:
- Background: Authors have to make clear what the context is. Ideally, authors should give an idea of the state-of-the art of the field the report is about.
- The Problem: If there was no problem, there would be no reason for writing a manuscript, and definitely no reason for reading it. So, please tell readers why they should proceed reading. Experience shows that for this part a few lines are often sufficient.
- The Proposed Solution: Now and only now! - authors may outline the contribution of the manuscript. Here authors have to make sure readers point out what are the novel aspects of authors' work. Authors should place the paper in proper context by citing relevant papers. At least 10 references (recent journal articles) are referenced to support this section.

(2) Conclusion section: Summarize sentences the primary outcomes of the study in a paragraph. Are the claims in this section supported by the results, do they seem reasonable? Have the authors indicated how the results relate to expectations and to earlier research? Does the article support or contradict previous theories? Does the conclusion explain how the research has moved the body of scientific knowledge forward?

(3) About Figures & Tables in your manuscript:
- Because tables and figures supplement the text, all tables and figures should be REFERRED in the text. Authors MUST EXPLAIN what the reader should look for when using the table or figure. Focus only on the important points the reader should draw from them, and leave the details for the reader to examine on her own.
- Tables are to be presented with a single horizontal line under: the table caption, the column headings and at the end of the table. All tables are produced by creating tables in MS Word. Captured tables are NOT allowed.
- All figures MUST be presented in high quality images

 

Checklist for preparing your paper for publication

  1. Is your manuscript written in IJAPE format?  At this stage, it is essential that you follow every detail of the IJAPE format. Please try to follow the format as closely as possible.
  2. Is your title adequate and is your abstract correctly written? The title of the paper is max 10 words, without acronyms or abbreviations. The Abstract (MAX 200 WORDS) should be informative and completely self-explanatory (no citation in the abstract), provide a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and point out major findings and conclusions.
  3. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the structure of the section: 1. Introduction - 2. The Proposed Method/Algorithm/Procedure specifically designed (optional) - 3. Research Method - 4. Results and Discussion – 5. Conclusion. Authors may present complex proofs of theorems or non-obvious proofs of the correctness of algorithms after the introduction section (obvious theorems & straightforward proofs of existing theorems are NOT needed).
  4. Introduction section: explain the context of the study and state the precise objective. An Introduction should contain the following three parts (within 3-7 paragraphs):
    - Background: Authors have to make clear what the context is. Ideally, authors should give an idea of the state-of-the-art of the field the report is about.
    - The Problem: If there was no problem, there would be no reason for writing a manuscript, and definitely no reason for reading it. So, please tell readers why they should proceed with reading. Experience shows that for this part a few lines are often sufficient.
    - The Proposed Solution: Now and only now! - authors may outline the contribution of the manuscript. Here authors have to make sure readers point out what are the novel aspects of authors work.
    - Authors should place the paper in the proper context by citing relevant papers. At least, 10 references (recent journal articles) are used in this section.
  5. Method section: the presentation of the experimental methods should be clear and complete in every detail facilitating reproducibility by other scientists.
  6. Results and discussion section: The presentation of results should be simple and straightforward in style. This section reports the most important findings, including results of statistical analyses as appropriate and comparisons to other research results. Results given in figures should not be repeated in tables. This is where the author(s) should explain in words what he/she/they discovered in the research. It should be clearly laid out and in a logical sequence. This section should be supported by suitable references.
  7. Conclusion section: Summarize sentences the primary outcomes of the study in a paragraph. Are the claims in this section supported by the results, do they seem reasonable? Have the authors indicated how the results relate to expectations and to earlier research? Does the article support or contradict previous theories? Does the conclusion explain how the research has moved the body of scientific knowledge forward?
  8. Language. If an article is poorly written due to grammatical errors, while it may make it more difficult to understand the science.
  9. Please be sure that the manuscript is up to date. It is expected that 10 to 20%  of references are to recent papers. 
  10. Is the manuscript clearly written?  Is the article exciting? Does the content flow well from one section to another? Please try to keep your manuscript on the proper level.  It should be easy to understand by well-qualified professionals, but at the same time please avoid describing well-known facts (use proper references instead). Often manuscripts receive negative reviews because reviewers are not able to understand the manuscript and this is the authors' (not the reviewers') fault.  Notice, that if reviewers have difficulties, then other readers will face the same problem and there is no reason to publish the manuscript.
  11. Do you have enough references?  We will usually expect a minimum of 20 to 25 references primarily to journal papers, depending on the length of the paper. Citations of textbooks should be used very rarely and citations to web pages should be avoided. All cited papers should be referenced within the text of the manuscript.
  12. Figures and Tables. Relation of Tables or Figures and Text: Because tables and figures supplement the text, all tables and figures should be referenced in the text. Avoid placing figures and tables before their first mention in the text. Authors also must explain what the reader should look for when using the table or figure. Focus only on the important point the reader should draw from them, and leave the details for the reader to examine on her own.

    Figures:
    a.    All figures appearing in the article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    b.    Each figure must have a caption fully explaining the content
    c.    Figure captions are presented as a paragraph starting with the figure number i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.
    d.    Figure captions appear below Figure
    e.    Each figure must be fully cited if taken from another article
    f.    all figures must be referred to in the body of the article

    Tables:
    a.    Material that is tabular in nature must appear in a numbered captioned table.
    b.    All tables appearing in the article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    c.    Each table must have a caption fully explaining the content with the table number i.e. Table 1, Table 2, etc.
    d.    Each column must have a clear and concise heading
    e.    Tables are to be presented with a single horizontal line under the table caption, the column headings, and at the end of the table.
    f.    All tables must be referred to in the body of the article
    g.    Each table must be fully cited if taken from another article

  13. Each citation should be written in the order of appearance in the text in square brackets. For example, the first citation [1], the second citation [2], and the third and fourth citations [3], [4]. When citing multiple sources at once, the preferred method is to list each number separately, in its own brackets, using a comma or dash between numbers, as such: [1], [3], [5]. It is not necessary to mention an author's name, pages used or date of publication in the in-text citation. Instead, refer to the source with a number in a square bracket, e.g. [9], that will then correspond to the full citation in your reference list. Examples of in-text citations:
    • This theory was first put forward in 1970 [9]."
    • Sutikno [10] has argued that...
    • Several recent studies [7], [9], [11]-[15] have suggested that....
    • ...end of the line for my research [16].
  14. Self-citations: to control for citation manipulation (COPE, 2019), this journal asks that authors keep self-citation to a minimum. We would strongly recommend no more than 5 (including jointly authored publications).
  15. Please be aware that for the final submission of a regular paper, you will be asked to tailor your paper so the last page is not half empty.

 

Policy of Plagiarism Detection

The peer-review process is at the heart of scientific publishing. As part of IAES's commitment to protecting the integrity of the scholarly record, IAES feels a strong obligation to support the scientific community in all aspects of research and publishing ethics. All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do similarity checking before submitting their manuscript to the journal (please use iThenticate or Turnitin to check the similarity). Editors will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal by using Turnitin or iThenticate software. The manuscript will be instantly rejected if there is plagiarism indicated or detected. The final camera-ready should also be checked for similarity rate.

The overall similarity rate of a manuscript should not exceed 25 percent, and the similarity rate to a single source shouldn't exceed 10 percent.

 

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

The author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, because the withdrawal is a waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscripts, money, and works invested by the publisher.

If the author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, the author will be punished with paying $200 per manuscript, as a withdrawal penalty to the publisher. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal. The withdrawal of the manuscript after the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author will be punished by paying US$500 per manuscript. Withdrawal of the manuscript is only allowed after the withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the Publisher.

If the author doesn't agree to pay the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal. Even, his/her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.