Publishing frequency: 48 issues per year
Indexed in MEDLINE and Web of Science
Editor-in-chief: Seong Keun Kim
Scope
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is an international journal for the publication of cutting-edge original work in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. To be suitable for publication in PCCP, articles must include significant new insight into physical chemistry; this is the most important criterion that reviewers and the Editors will judge against when evaluating submissions.
The journal has a broad scope which includes spectroscopy, dynamics, kinetics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, catalysis, surface science, quantum mechanics and theoretical developments. Interdisciplinary research areas such as polymers and soft matter, materials, nanoscience, surfaces/interfaces, and biophysical chemistry are welcomed if they demonstrate significant new insight into physical chemistry.
PCCP is proud to be a society journal and is co-owned by 19 national chemical societies. The journal is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of the whole scientific community.
Chair
Seong Keun Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
Deputy chair
David Rueda, Imperial College London, UK
Associate editors
Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), India
Bo Albinsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Kiyotaka Asakura, Hokkaido University, Japan
Piero Baglioni, University of Florence, Italy
Luis Bañares, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Anna Krylov, University of Southern California, USA
Hedi Mattoussi, Florida State University, USA
Anouk Rijs, Radboud University,The Netherlands
Henry Schaefer, University of Georgia, USA
Ruth Signorell, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
C Adamo, ENSCP Chimie Paris Tech, France
Hans Ågren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Carlo Otero Arean, CChem MRSC, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Mike Ashfold CChem FRSC, University of Bristol, UK
Paul Ayers, McMaster University, Canada
Vincenzo Barone, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
Phil Bartlett CChem FRSC, University of Southampton, UK
Matthias Bickelhaupt, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Piergiorgio Casavecchia FRSC, University of Perugia, Italy
Ove Christiansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Mattanjah DeVries, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Jairton Dupont, University of Nottingham, UK
Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge, UK
Asuka Fujii, Tohoku University, Japan
Marco Garavelli, Università di Bologna, Italy
Robert (Benny) Gerber, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Daniella Goldfarb, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Stefan Grimme, University of Bonn, Germany
Martina Havenith, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
So Hirata, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Yasuhiro Iwasawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Denis Jacquemin, Université de Nantes, France
Roman Krems, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Wolfgang Lubitz, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany
Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick, UK
Manfred Martin, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Gerard Meijer, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany
Ron Naaman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Frank Neese, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany
David Nesbitt, University of Colorado, USA
Dan Neumark, UC Berkeley, USA
Modesto Orozco, IRB Barcelona - Parc Científic de Barcelona, Spain
Michel Orrit, Leiden University, The Netherlands
G Naresh Patwari, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Marie-Paule Pileni, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Martin Pumera, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Pekka Pyykkö, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany
Martin Suhm FRSC, University of Göttingen, Germany
Dage Sundholm, University of Helsinki, Finland
Toshinori Suzuki, Kyoto University, Japan
Zhong-Qun Tian FRSC, Xiamen University, China
Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick, UK
Jeroen van Bokhoven, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Shimon Vega, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Li-jun Wan, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wenchuan Wang FRSC, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Bert Weckhuysen FRSC, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Xueming Yang, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Anne Zehnacker-Rentien, Université Paris-Sud 11, France
M Eigen HonFRSC, Göttingen, Germany
R Ernst, Zürich, Switzerland
G Ertl HonFRSC, Berlin, Germany
S W Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
J Jortner FRSC, Tel Aviv, Israel
Y T Lee, Academia Sinica, Chinese Taipei
W H Miller, Berkeley, USA
E Neher, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
J Polanyi HonFRSC, Toronto, Canada
H Schwarz, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
J P Simons, University of Oxford, UK
Gabor A Somorjai, California, USA
Jürgen Troe, GWDG, Germany
R N Zare HonFRSC, Stanford, USA
J Aoiz, Spain
D Berti, Italy
H Cohen, Israel
O Crescenzi, Italy
W Ernst, Austria
W Grünbein, Germany
K Holmberg, Sweden
L Hviid, The Netherlands
J Keegan, Ireland
Y Kim, Korea
H Loock, Canada
J Macpherson, UK
M Mahramanlioglu, Turkey
M Michel, Poland
M Pettersson, Finland
S D Price, CChem MRSC, UK
M Quack, Switzerland
R Rendle, New Zealand
J Sauer, Germany
A Trevitt, Australia
E Uggerud, Norway
P Westh, Denmark
Anna Simpson, Executive Editor, ORCID 0000-0002-5068-0011
Katie Lim, Deputy Editor, ORCID 0000-0001-9052-1317
Annika Friberg, Development Editor
Kathryn Gempf, Development Editor
Gisela Scott, Editorial Production Manager, ORCID 0000-0002-2552-982X
Anna Meehan, Senior Publishing Editor
Lucy Balshaw, Publishing Editor
Rebecca Campbell, Publishing Editor
Joe Gibson, Publishing Editor
Chris Goodall, Publishing Editor
Alexandra Heaffey, Publishing Editor
Colin King, Publishing Editor
Emma Lockyer, Publishing Editor
Charlie Marshall, Publishing Editor
Lynn Murphy, Publishing Editor
Alexander Whiteside, Publishing Editor
Ella Wren, Publishing Editor
Ellis McGlone, Editorial Assistant
Robert Griffiths, Publishing Assistant
Fiona McKenzie, Publisher
PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship
This Lectureship recognises early career researchers, who have made a significant contribution to physical chemistry, chemical physics or biophysical chemistry, in their independent academic career.
This award is presented annually. Nominations are open in the summer. The winner is announced in late autumn.
Nominations are welcome from anyone and are to be sent to the Editorial Office with details explaining the reason for their nomination. Self-nomination is not permitted.
The nominations are then shortlisted and the winner selected by the PCCP Editorial Board.
The recipient of this award receives: the opportunity to present at an international conference hosted by one of the PCCP Owner Societies, and a contribution of up to £1,000 to cover associated travel and accommodation costs. Also, an invitation to submit a perspective article to PCCP.
Latest recipient: Ryan P Steele University of Utah, USA
Access the web collection here.
Article templates
To help authors publish their research with us we host our PCCP LaTeX template in the Overleaf authoring tool. Overleaf simplifies LaTeX authorship by enabling collaborators to easily prepare and edit their manuscripts with realtime format previewing, simple document sharing and collaboration, and user support and LaTeX help.
With one-click, the PDF of your manuscript and a ZIP file of the LaTeX source files are sent directly to the PCCP submission system without the need to download and re-upload files, making the process quicker and easier.
A free introductory course is available to authors who are new to LaTeX and Overleaf. Our Microsoft Word templates are located in our author guidelines.
Journal specific guidelines
Papers must report high quality new work that makes a significant contribution within the scope of the journal. Manuscripts reporting data or applications of data with no new physicochemical insights are not suitable for publication in PCCP.
Additionally, papers that contain insufficient information to ensure reproducibility or material which actively promotes the interest of a process, instrument, software or other intellectual property of actual or potential commercial value will not be considered suitable for publication in PCCP.
PCCP welcomes suggestions of topics for future themed issues to be considered by the editorial board. If you have any suggestions of suitable topics please email the PCCP editorial office.
Readership information
PCCP has a large and international readership, which spans many communities in the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.
Subscription information
PCCP is part of collections RSC Gold and Core Chemistry
Print + online 2018: ISSN 1463-9076, £4,285 / $7,548
Online only 2018: ISSN 1463-9084, £4,081 / $7,189
*2016 Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate Analytics, June 2017)
**average time from receipt to first decision in 2017
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