About this journal
Aims and scope
The purpose of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds is to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for all aspects of research related to polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAC). Topics range from fundamental research in chemistry (including synthetic and theoretical chemistry) and physics (including astrophysics), as well as thermodynamics, spectroscopy, analytical methods, and biology to applied studies in environmental science, biochemistry, toxicology, and industry. Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds has an outstanding Editorial Board and offers a rapid and efficient peer review process, as well as a flexible open access policy.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 128K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.4 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.782 (2023) SNIP
- 0.319 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 13 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 127 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 17 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 30% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Professor Nisheeth C. Desai - BSR Faculty Fellow, UGC, New Delhi, Former Dean, Faculty of Science, Former Senior Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi campus, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar - 364 002, India, e-mail: [email protected]Editorial Assistants
FOUNDING EDITOR
Maximilian Zander - Friedenstrasse 9. D-44579 Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
TOPICAL EDITORS
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Reactivity
Douglas A. Lane - Environment Canada, Science and Technology Branch, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON M3H 5T4, Canada. Tel: (416) 739-4859, Fax: (416) 739-5916, e-mail: [email protected]
- Synthetic Chemistry and PAC Transformations
Victor Snieckus - Bader Chair in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada, Tel: (613) 533-2239, Fax: (613) 533-2837, e-mail: [email protected]
- Theoretical Chemistry
Douglas Klein - Texas A&M University at Galveston, P.O. Box 1675, Galveston, TX 77553, USA. Tel: (409) 740-4512, Fax: (409) 740-4429, e-mail: [email protected]
- Environmental Sciences/Physics/Fossil Fuel Science
Curt M. White - 4903 Young Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15227, e-mail: [email protected]
- Environmental Toxicology
Steve Myers - Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40292, USA, Tel: (502) 852-0928, Fax: (502) 852-7868, e-mail: [email protected]
- Analytical Separation Techniques
Stephen A.Wise - NIST (National Inst. of Standards and Technology), Analytical Chemistry Division, 100 Bureau Drive Stop 8390, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8392, USA. Tel: (301) 975-3112, Fax: (301) 977-0685, e-mail: [email protected]
John Fetzer - P.O. Box 942, Pinole CA 94564, USA, e-mail: [email protected]
- Spectroscopy
Tuan Vo-Dinh - Director, Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University, 136 Hudson Hall, Box 90281, Durham, NC 27708-0281, USA, Tel: (919) 660-8520, Fax: (919) 613-9145, e-mail: [email protected]
- Biomedicine and Health
Albrecht Seidel - Managing Director, Biochemical Institute for Environmental Carcinogens, Prof. Dr. Gernot Grimmer-Foundation Lurup 4, D-22927 Grosshansdorf, Germany. Tel: 49(0) 4102 62155, Fax: 49(0) 4102 63028, e-mail: [email protected]
- Biology
Aramandla Ramesh - Department of Cancer Biology, Meharry Medical College, 1005 D.B. Todd Blvd., Nashville, TN, USA. Tel: (615) 327-6163, e-mail: [email protected]
EDITORIAL BOARD
Israel Agranat - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jan Andersson - Institut f¨ur Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Germany
Freek Ariese - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Roger Atkinson - University of California, USA
William M. Baird - Oregon State University, USA
Helene Budzinski - Universit´e Bordeaux, France
Lene Duedahl-Olensen - Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, Denmark
Ivan Gutman - The University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Ronald G. Harvey - University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jocelyne Hellou - Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada
Christine Joblin - CESR/CNRS-UPS, France
Uuve Kirso - National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Estonia
Miroslav Machala - Knihkupectv´i Malina, Czech Republic
Sadao Matsuzawa - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Klaus Muellen - Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Shigeru Ohshima - Toho University, Japan
Dianne Poster - National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Lawrence T. Scott - Boston College, USA
Glenn Talaska - University of Cincinatti, USA
Earl L. Wehry - University of Tennessee, USA
Mary Julia Wornat - Louisiana State University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds is abstracted and/or indexed in:
CABI (various)
Chemical Abstracts Service
- Chemical Abstracts (Online)
EBSCOhost (various)
Elsevier BV
- EI Compendex
- Scopus
Genamics JournalSeek
National Library of Medicine
- PubMed
OCLC
- ArticleFirst
- Electronic Collections Online
Personal Alert (Email)
ProQuest (various)
Clarivate Analytics
- Current Contents
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Web of Science
World Ceramics Abstracts (Online)
Open access
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- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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