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Eigenfactor Score: 0.191*
CiteScore: 3.69**
Publishing frequency: 48 issues per year
Indexed in MEDLINE and Web of Science
Chair: David Rueda
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 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, energy, surfaces/interfaces, and biophysical chemistry are welcomed if they demonstrate significant innovation and/or 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
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
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
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
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
G Andres Cisneros, University of North Texas, USA
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
Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota, USA
Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Universite d'Evry val d'Essonne, France
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
Yasuhiro Iwasawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Denis Jacquemin, Université de Nantes, France
Seong Keun Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
Wolfgang Lubitz, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany
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
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
Mary Rodgers, Wayne State University, USA
Ruth Signorell, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Martin Suhm FRSC, University of Göttingen, Germany
Dage Sundholm, University of Helsinki, Finland
Toshinori Suzuki, Kyoto University, Japan
Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick, UK
Jeroen van Bokhoven, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Shimon Vega, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
David Waldeck, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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
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
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
D Berti, Italy
H Cohen, Israel
O Crescenzi, Italy
J Dowle, New Zealand
A Michalak, Poland
W Ernst, Austria
J Sauer, Germany
K Holmberg, Sweden
L Hviid, The Netherlands
T Kee, Australia
J Keegan, Ireland
M Lim, Korea
A Brown, Canada
J Macpherson, UK
M Mahramanlioglu, Turkey
M Pettersson, Finland
S D Price, CChem MRSC, UK
M Quack, Switzerland
E Uggerud, Norway
S Vogel, Denmark
Anna Simpson, Executive Editor
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
Ellis Crawford, Publishing Editor
Peter DaBell, Publishing Editor
Colin King, Publishing Editor
Emma Lockyer, Publishing Editor
Isobel Tibbetts, Publishing Editor
Jack Washington, Publishing Editor
Alexander Whiteside, 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 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.
PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship
The Emerging Investigator Lectureship 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 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: Federico Calle-Vallejo,University of Barcelona, Spain
Eligible nominees will be invited to contribute an article to a PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship themed collection. Access the web collection 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 collections RSC Gold and Core Chemistry
Print + online 2021: ISSN 1463-9076, £4,837 / $8,522
Online only 2021: ISSN 1463-9084, £4,455 / $7,848
*2019 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)
** Average time from receipt to first decision in 2019
**CiteScore™ 2018. Calculated by Scopus on 30 April 2019. Available from www.scopus.com/sourceid/27011
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