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Impact factor: 3.945*
Eigenfactor Score: 0.10767*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 26.0 days**
Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 35.0 days***
CiteScore: 6.3****
Indexed in MEDLINE and Web of Science
Chair: David Rueda
Deputy Chair: Anouk Rijs
Article submissions (2021): 5712
Article publications (2021): 2539
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 innovation and/or 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 and welcomes contributions spanning experiment, theory, computation and data science. Topical coverage includes spectroscopy, dynamics, kinetics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, catalysis, surface science, quantum mechanics, quantum computing and machine learning. Interdisciplinary research areas such as polymers and soft matter, materials, nanoscience, energy, surfaces/interfaces, and biophysical chemistry are welcomed if they demonstrate significant innovation and/or insight into physical chemistry. Joined experimental/theoretical studies are particularly appreciated when complementary and based on up-to-date approaches.
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.
See who's on the team
Meet the PCCP Chair and other board members.
Chair
David Rueda, Imperial College London, UK
Deputy chair
Anouk Rijs, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Associate editors
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
Chantal Daniel, Institute of Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, France
Jürgen Janek, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Hiroshi Kondoh, Keio University, Japan
Anna Krylov, University of Southern California, USA
Prabal Maiti, Indian Institue of Science, India
Ron Naaman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Henry Schaefer, University of Georgia, USA
Isaac Tamblyn, University of Ottawa, Canada
Yunjie Xu, University of Alberta, Canada
John Zhang, NYU Shanghai, China
C Adamo, ENSCP Chimie Paris Tech, France
Hans Ågren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), India
Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Paul Ayers, McMaster University, Canada
Vincenzo Barone, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
Malgorzata Biczysko, Shanghai University, China
Evan Bieske, University of Melbourne, Australia
Julie Biteen, University of Michigan, USA
David Casanova, Donostia International Physics Center, Spain
Piergiorgio Casavecchia FRSC, University of Perugia, Italy
Ove Christiansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
G Andres Cisneros, University of North Texas, USA
Mattanjah DeVries, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Cristina Díaz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jairton Dupont, University of Nottingham, UK
Shirin Faraji, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge, UK
Asuka Fujii, Tohoku University, Japan
Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota, USA
Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Universite d'Evry val d'Essonne, France
Subi George, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India
Robert (Benny) Gerber, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Debashree Ghosh, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Daniella Goldfarb, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Stefan Grimme, University of Bonn, Germany
Martina Havenith, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Krister Holmberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Yasuhiro Iwasawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Denis Jacquemin, Université de Nantes, France
Thomas Jagau, KU Leuven, Belgium
Erin Johnson, Dalhousie University, Canada
Seong Keun Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick, UK
Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University, USA
Hedi Mattoussi, Florida State University, USA
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
Katya Pas, Monash University, Australia
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
Mary Rodgers, Wayne State University, USA
Srinivasan Sampath, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Ruth Signorell, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Timothy Schmidt, University of New South Wales, Australia
Martin Suhm FRSC, University of Göttingen, Germany
Arthur Suits, University of Missouri, USA
Dage Sundholm, University of Helsinki, Finland
Toshinori Suzuki, Kyoto University, Japan
Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick, UK
Shimon Vega, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
David Waldeck, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Li-jun Wan, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 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
G Ertl HonFRSC, Berlin, Germany
B Feringa, University of Groningen, Netherlands
S W Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
J Jortner FRSC, Tel Aviv, Israel
M Karplus, Harvard University, USA
K Kohse- Hoeinghaus, Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany
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 (Real Sociedad Española de Química)
D Berti, Italy (Società Chimica Italiana)
A Brown, Canada (Canadian Society for Chemistry)
H Cohen, Israel (Israel Chemical Society)
O Crescenzi, Italy (Società Chimica Italiana)
S Eason, New Zealand (New Zealand Institute of Chemistry)
W Ernst, Austria (Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft)
K Holmberg, Sweden (Svenska Kemisamfundet)
L Hviid, The Netherlands (Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging)
T Kee, Australia (Royal Australian Chemical Institute)
J Keegan, Ireland (Institute of Chemistry of Ireland)
M Lim, Korea (Korean Chemical Society)
J Macpherson, UK (Royal Society of Chemistry)
M Mahramanlioglu, Turkey (Türkiye Kimya Dernegi)
A Michalak, Poland (Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne)
U Ott, Germany (Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie)
M Pettersson, Finland (Suomalaisten Kemistien Seura I Finland)
S D Price, UK (Royal Society of Chemistry)
M Quack, Switzerland (Swiss Chemical Society)
J Sauer, Germany (Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie)
E Uggerud, Norway (Norsk Kjemisk Selskap)
S Vogel, Denmark (Kemisk Forening)
Michael A. Rowan, Executive Editor, ORCID 0000-0001-6584-3648
Vikki Pritchard, Deputy Editor
Alexandra Klein, Development Editor
Jeanne Andres, Publisher
Gisela Scott, Editorial Production Manager, ORCID 0000-0002-2552-982X
Chris Goodall, Senior Publishing Editor
Catherine Au, Publishing Editor
Isobel Darlington, Publishing Editor
Konoya Das, Publishing Editor
Richard Thompson, Publishing Editor
Isobel Tibbetts, Publishing Editor
Michael Whitelaw, Publishing Editor
Daphne Houston, Editorial Assistant
Robert Griffiths, Publishing Assistant
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 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 Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award
The Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award recognises early career researchers, who have made a significant contribution to physical chemistry, chemical physics or biophysical chemistry, in their independent academic career.
The award is presented annually and nominations open in the summer.
Nominations are welcome from anyone and are to be sent to the Editorial Office with a nomination form and a letter of recommendation. Self-nomination is not permitted.
The nominations are then shortlisted and the winner selected by the PCCP Editorial Board. The winner is announced in late autumn.
The recipient of this award receives: the opportunity to present at an international conference, 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.
Eligible nominees will be invited to contribute an article to a PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship themed collection. Access the web collection here.
2021’s PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award
We are delighted to let you know that due to the additional difficulties faced by emerging investigators in raising their profile during the COVID-19 pandemic and the high quality of nominations, we have decided to grant two Lectureship Awards for 2021. Each recipient will receive £1,000 to cover associated travel and accommodation costs and be invited to present a lecture at a leading international meeting.
Dr Stella Stopkowicz and Dr Stefania Impellizzeri have been selected as the 2021 winners of the PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship Awards.
Read more about the winners here.
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 RSC Gold and Core Chemistry subscription packages.
Online only 2022: ISSN 1463-9084, £4,277 / $7,534
*2021 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022)
**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer reviewed manuscripts from the previous calendar year
****CiteScore™ 2021 available at www.scopus.com/sources
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