About the Journal

Power System Protection and Control (original—Relay), quarterly journal, is a national electro-technical journal. It has been published at home and abroad since 1973

Power System Protection and Control has been indexed in many reputable databases. They are Compendex (EI), Scopus, Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), Chinese Core Journal, Chinese Sci-tech Core Journal, Outstanding S & T Journals of China, RCCSE Chinese Authoritative Academic Journal (A+), The Excellent International Impact Academic Journals of China from 2014 to 2016, 2018,and 2017,2019,2020,2021 The Highest International Impact Academic Journals of China, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (UPD), Scientific Abstract (SA, INSPEC), JST, and Abstract Journal (AJ, VINITI). 

Editor-in-chief of Power System Protection and Control is Dr. ZHOU De-Gao, who is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Hunan University. Chairmen of Editorial Committee are Qiang LU and Shijie CHENG, who are academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Editorial Committee is composed of 127 members, including 7 academicians and 10 international committee members. All of them hold posts in famous universities or research institutes at home and aboard, acquiring distinguished achievements in the field of power system protection and control.

Power System Protection and Control is dedicated to presenting high-quality academic achievements reflecting scientific innovation, advanced technology in the field of Power System Protection and Control by scholars, researchers and engineers at home and abroad, and devotes herself to serving as an academic platform for researches in power industry.

Aims: Paying attention to the academic development; Combining theory with practice; Being application-oriented; Serving the front-line research and production.　

Scope: Power System Protection and Control publishes academic papers with new techniques, new achievements, operation experiences, technical innovations and scientific management, technical regulations, or foreign advanced techniques in the field of power system protection and control including, but are not limited to, power system relay protection, power system analysis and control, power system planning, integrated energy system, new energy generation, smart substation, intelligent power transmission and consumption, influence of large-scale electric vehicles integration on power grid, micro-grid techniques, application of power electronics in power system, power system automation and remote control techniques, power system communication, electricity market, power quality, etc.

Main Columns: Theoretical analysis, survey, application research, design and development, engineering application, special series on power industry development and hotspot, etc.

Open Access: All articles published by Power System Protection and Control are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Power System Protection and Control will have copyright of the manuscript upon acceptance, including the right to reproduce, publish, transmit, translate and edit the work. The authors can use or share the published article under the Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Power System Protection and Control applies the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0)(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unresticted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Power System Protection and Control has followed the OA policy of the journal since 2008, and it conforms to the definition given by DOAJ. 

Authorship: Researchers, designers, equipment manufacturers from power enterprises and departments. Professors and students in universities with faculties of power system and its related fields; technical staffs from power plants, substations, power transmission and distribution system and power supply companies; personnel engaged in electric power production, construction, and operation & management; individuals from the fields of metallurgy, coal mining, petrifaction, railroad construction, machining, etc.