The Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings (PCCC)

The Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings (PCCC) is an international research peer reviewed Journal which is published by Institute for Color Science and Technology (ICST) in Iran. This Journal aims to provide an international forum for the prompt publication of articles concerning new concepts and innovative technologies in color, colorants and coatings. The title welcomes original, review, novel and high-impact contributions from the related color, colorants and coatings topics. All submissions to the PCCC Journal undergo a fair, supportive and Single-blind peer-review process and the title acceptance rate is about 32 %.
The PCCC Journal has been indexed in the well-known world databases mainly; Scopus (CiteScore = 7.8; 2024), Scimago Journal Rank (Q3), Chemical Abstract and DOAJ.

•    Publisher: Institute for Color Science and Technology (ICST)
•    Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Zahra Ranjbar
•    Managing Editor: Dr. Mozhgan Hosseinnezhad
Financial Policies
Article Processing Charges: As the Institute for Color Science and Technology (ICST) in Iran has supported PCCC's publishing costs, the article processing charges and any other publication fees in the journal are free for authors.

Subscription Fee: PCCC has been published as an open-access electronic journal, so audiences do not have to pay subscription fees. 

Journal Policies
Open Access Statement
PCCC is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. In this journal and under an open-access license, authors retain unrestricted ownership of the copyright for their content under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Licensees may copy, distribute, display and make derivative works only if they cite the original published article.

For further information including the journal info, journal archive and submitting manuscripts please visit:
http://pccc.icrc.ac.ir/