Are you an electrical engineer or researcher who has an exciting new piece of work on your hands, a new algorithm or circuit design, or a complicated power system analysis? The key to the step towards the recognition of your professionalism and the growth of your career lies in the technical success of changing this success into a valued publication in Electrical Engineering. Electrical engineering is a profession that requires a high level of validation and publication in the best journals, especially those registered by IEEE, Scopus or Web of Science, is the platinum standard.
Yet, there are certain technical and editorial obstacles on the way to the journal page. It requires a frameworked strategy to properly convey your complicated work and focus it in a strategic manner.
At Fast Publications, we are experts in the process of guiding the electrical engineering professionals. We assist you in preparing your technical genius into a high-impact submission-ready paper. We are concerned with clarity, compliance and strategy. Read this crucial guide to know the roadmap and learn how our experience can drive your publication success.
Phase 1: Core Research Development and Core Research Validation
You have to make sure that your research is of the highest standards of the best engineering journals before a single line of your manuscript is written.
Carry out State-of-the-art Research
Your work has to show technical novelty and usefulness. Regardless of whether it is a renewable energy integration, signal processing, or VLSI design, you need to demonstrate an improved functionality on the current technologies. Record all the experimental systems, simulation parameters and theoretical derivations in detail. The best journals require repeatability and verifiability.
Triangulate Your Results Stringently
Electrical engineering books are dependent on sound data. You need to demonstrate the performance of your innovation in quantitative terms. Carry out comprehensive simulations (e.g. MATLAB, ANSYS, PSPICE) or experimental work. Use measurable performance metrics such as increase in efficiency, reduced error rate, faster speed or power savings of your solution to definitively demonstrate the superiority of your solution. The first step to a successful publication is unquestioned data.
Essential Training Master Technical Writing
Extreme precision is needed in technical prose. Give your findings in the active voice in order to be clear in attributing the actions and outcomes. Rather than: The designer optimized the filter, say: we optimized the filter with a genetic algorithm. Make sure that your words are short; all sentences should present as much technical information as possible.
Phase 2: Organization of Your High-Impact Manuscript
The manuscripts of electrical engineering include a particular structure that helps include them in the peer review and understanding of technical specialists.
Make a Structure of the Manuscript Clear
Write your paper in a logical way and usually in the structure of IMRaD, but suited to engineering:
- Introduction: Present the problem, review the associated literature and clearly define your contribution and hypothesis. Point out weaknesses of the earlier research.
- Theoretical Background/Design: Provide a description of the theory, equations and design principles of your proposed system or algorithm. All mathematical expressions should use high quality LaTeX.
- Methodology/Implementation: How did you run your experiment, what were the parameters of your simulation and what hardware/software did you use? Be accurate; make replication possible.
- Results and Discussion: Be objective in presenting your quantitative results with clear and well labeled figures and tables. Compare your performance indicators directly to state of the art performances. Describe the consequences and possible uses of your work.
- Conclusion: Overview the key findings and provide the future lines of research.
Master Your Figures and Calculations
Your figures (schematics, waveforms, performance curves) and mathematical equations can be more important than the text in electrical engineering. Make sure that all of the figures are high-resolution (no less than 300 dpi) and can be read with ease. Make use of the use of vector graphics. Always verify all the symbols, units, (S.I. units are mandatory) and variables in the text and figures. Technical mistakes are instant grounds of rejection.
Phase 3: Success of Strategic Submission and Peer Review
The last step that you would do is to select your journal strategically, and prepare to face the intense criticisms of your peers.
Identify the IEEE or Scopus Journal
Find journals with the ideal scope of your particular sub-field (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers at Elsevier). Test the Impact Factor or CiteScore of the journal to determine how prestigious it is. The journal with a greater impact will require a greater degree of novelty.
- Check Recent Issues: Read the few past issues so that you can get to know the style of publication, as well as the narrowness of research being done in the journal.
- Mark the “Guide for Authors: It is important to strictly follow all formatting rules, in particular, reference styles (usually IEEE style).
Make a Powerful Submission Package
Send your refined paper using the internet system. More importantly, draft an excellent Cover Letter. The active voice is used to provide a clear statement of the title of the paper and briefly summarize the technical novelty, major findings, and relevance of your paper. The cover letter will be the first and the leading opportunity to impress the Associate Editor.
Learn to Respond to Peer Reviews
In case you get a Major Revision decision, accept the advice of the reviewers as a form of help and never see it as a form of criticism. Discuss each and every raised point. Your response letter must be written in the active voice in order to specify the changes that you have implemented: “We have re-simulated to take care of the concern the reviewer has. Professional revisions are done thoroughly and result in acceptance.
Fast Publications: Power Your Publication
You have worked hard by pioneering electrical engineering. Fast Publications can now assume the complicated editorial process. We provide consultancy services to the exclusive needs of technical research.
We offer:
- IEEE-Specific Structure and Editing: We make sure that your writing, equations, and figures are described on the exact specifications of the topmost engineering journals.
- Refining the technical language: We polish your English so that it is as technical as possible and has maximum effect.
- Strategic Journal Alignment: We use our experience to choose the best high impact journal with Scopus/IEEE-index that fits your niche and gives you the best acceptance rates.
- End-to-End Submission Support: We handle the process of submission life-cycle, including the convincing cover letter, all the way through to the final revisions.
- Complexity in publication is of no value to career: Cooperate with Fast Publications and make your engineering innovation a worldwide known publication-fast and successful.
