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

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]

- Analytical Chemistry (General)
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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