Impact factor(2015) 1.578 | Language English Publication history 1976-present | |
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Propellants Explos. Pyrotech.PEP | ||
Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics is a monthly peer-reviewed chemistry journal that covers all disciplines of explosives. Its current impact factor is 1.604 (2014). PEP - how the journal is typically referred to in the energetic materials community. The journal was founded in 1976 by Hiltmar Schubert, then director of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Chemische Technologie (ICT) Pfinztal/Germany and Verlag Chemie/Weinheim. PEP was intended as a successing journal to Explosivstoffe a journal which had appeared between 1953-1975 but which had published exclusively in German.
Since 1982 PEP is the official journal of the International Pyrotechnics Society and is published by Wiley-VCH.
Besides original research in the form full papers communications, the journal contains review-type articles and a section dealing with (news, obituaries, book reviews, conference reports). Colloquially, the journal is simply called "PEP". It is edited by Peter Elsner director of Fraunhofer-Institut für Chemische Technologie (ICT)/Germany, Norbert Eisenreich/ICT and Randall L. Simpson of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL)/USA.
The journal publishes up to 120 articles per year and has a content of 900 to 1000 pages.