Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed chemistry journal that covers all disciplines of explosives. Its current impact factor is 1.245 (2012). PEP - how the journal is typically referred to in the energetic materials community - 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.
It is a 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 between 60 - 65 papers per year and has a content of 450 - 500 pages.