Propellants Explosives Pyrotechnics

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics usually with propellants explos. Pyrotech. abbreviated, is a bimonthly peer -reviewed journal. The PEP, as the magazine in professional circles is usually called, was founded in 1976 by ​​Hiltmar Schubert, the former director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ( ICT) Pfinztal, as successor to the 1953-1975 published in Barth Verlag, purely German -language magazine Explosives, together with the Verlag Chemie / Weinheim founded. It is the official organ of the International Pyrotechnics Society and now appears in the Wiley -VCH Verlag. Published in the journal articles deal with the entire field of explosives, so treat explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics. In addition to scientific articles ( full papers ) is devoted to the PEP also reviews and book reviews.

The impact factor of the journal is 1.245 (as of 2012). In statistics, the Science Citation Index, the magazine ranked 40 occupied by 71 journals in the category " Applied Chemistry ". In the " Chemical Engineering " was performed on 62 out of 133 journals.

Editors of Propellants Explosives Pyrotechnics are Peter Elsner, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ( ICT) Pfinztal, Norbert Eisenreich, ICT and Randall L. Simpson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The total scope of the journal is an annual 450-500 pages. About 60 papers are published per year.

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