Recently, a paper entitled “An Efficient Signcryption Protocol for Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregations in Smart Grids” was published in IEEEJournal on Selected Areas in Communications(JSAC), Volume: 38, Issue 1. The authors are Dr. Sui Zhiyuan, School of Information, CUFE (first author and corresponding author) and Prof. Hermann de Meer, University of Passau.JSACis one of the top journals included in the Chinese Academy of Sciences Q1 (top 5%) and Chinese Computer Federation (CCF) A-class at the same time, and the research results it selects can represent the highest level of synchronic study in computer science.