Three Types of Papers Interested by PWRD
PWRD welcomes three types of papers as listed below. Authors specify their paper type when the manuscript is submitted. Each type of papers has its unique review guide (see the section on “how is a paper reviewed”).
Type 1: Research Papers
Research papers are expected to present innovative solutions, novel concepts, or creative ideas that can help to address existing or emerging technical challenges in the field of power engineering. PWRD welcomes research papers that are visionary and promise significant advances in the coming years.
Type 2: Application Papers
Application papers share valuable industry experiences on dealing with challenging technical issues, developing/adopting new standards, applying new technologies or solving complex problems. PWRD welcomes application papers that can have a significant impact on industry practices in the coming years.
Type 3: Review Papers
Review papers are expected to provide insightful and expert reviews, tutorials, or study cases on an important, timely and widely-interested topic in power engineering. PWRD welcomes review papers whose analysis, insights and recommendations are original and can have a significant impact on the research and/or application activities in the subject area.
Remarks
1. Clarifying “Innovation”: The definition of “innovation” is (per Wikipedia): “Innovation generally refers to the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society”. This implies that there are two aspects about innovative work: novelty and usefulness. In terms of novelty, innovation is not just limited to new algorithms. An original improvement to a power apparatus, its design or its testing is also an innovation. In terms of usefulness, it can mean useful to academic research, to industry applications or to both.
2. Clarifying application paper: Since application papers may not be well understood, two examples are given here: 1) “Unintentional Islanding of Distributed Generation — Operating Experiences from Naturally-Occurred Events” published in 2014, and 2) “Damaging Open-Phase Overvoltage Disturbance on a Shunt-Compensated 500-kV Line Initiated by Unintended Trip”, published in 2015. Industry practitioners enjoy reading this type of papers.
3. About review/tutorial paper: PES and PWRD discourages review-type papers that are just passive summary of published works with little original, independent and critical analysis. Some forms of originality are required for review papers (see the paper review guide). A good example of review papers is “Dynamic Averaged and Simplified Models for MMC-Based HVDC Transmission Systems” published in 2013 (DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2013.2251912). Review papers shall not be used as a way to increase an individual’s publication record without the effort of conducting original research. When citing a review paper, it is not appropriate to just cite the review paper without citing the (representative) original works that lead to the review paper.
4. About working group or task force papers: WG or TF papers typically belong to the review paper type. PES discourages WG/TF papers submitted mainly for the sake of increasing individuals’ publication records. Since a WG/TF paper is published under the name of a technical committee, readers may consider it as an authoritative view of PES. There is a higher expectation on quality and the review process will be more rigorous. In addition, the PES publication board has established a policy that a committee paper must be written using a standard format. An example format can be downloaded here.