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Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ3381558 ↗
Source-derived summary

Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all areas of photochemistry and photobiology. It was established in 2002 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology. The editors-in-chief are Dario Bassani (University of Bordeaux) and Rex Tyrrell (University of Bath).

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.328.

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The public source identifies “Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences” as journal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Photochemical, Photobiological and Sciences.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Photochemical, Photobiological and Sciences providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3381558. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.