The Analyst (chemistry journal)

Infobox Journal
title = The Analyst


discipline = analytical chemistry
abbreviation = The Analyst
The Analyst (Cambridge, UK)
website = http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/an/Index.asp
publisher = Royal Society of Chemistry
country = United Kingdom
history = 1876 to present
ISSN = 0003-2654

"The Analyst" is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original (primary) research and review articles on any aspect of analytical, bioanalytical and detection science. "The Analyst" is published monthly by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Dr Niamh O'Connor is the editor and Professor Elizabeth (Lisa) Hall, University of Cambridge is the chairman of the editorial board.

"The Analyst" was first published in 1876 by the Society for Analytical Chemistry, one of the forerunner societies of the RSC, and has become one of the leading analytical science journals, with an impact factor of 3.553 (2007). [Journal Citation Reviews, 2007 ] It has been selected by the US National Library of Medicine for inclusion in MEDLINE and is abstracted in Analytical Abstracts thereby increasing its visibility to the bioanalytical and detection science communities.

In 1999, the Society closed the journal " [http://journalseek.net/cgi-bin/journalseek/journalsearch.cgi?field=issn&query=1359-7337 Analytical Communications] " because it felt that the material submitted to that journal would be best in a new communications section of the Analyst. Predecessor journals of Analytical Communications were:-
* Proceedings of the Society for Analytical Chemistry, 1964 - 1974
* Proceedings of the Analytical Division of the Chemical Society, 1975 - 1979.
* Analytical Proceedings, 1980 - 1993
* Analytical Proceedings including Analytical Communications, 1994 - 1995

"The Analyst" hosts another RSC publication, "Chemical Technology".

ubject coverage and techniques

;"The Analyst" publishes articles on the following topics and techniques:

:Acoustics:Chemometrics and Statistics:Chromatography :Clinical and biochemical analysis, including proteomics and genomics :Detection science:Electrophoresis :Electrochemistry:Environmental, agricultural and food analysis :Imaging techniques:Miniaturisation:Novel Assays:Optics:Pharmaceutical analysis:Sampling and sample handling:Sensors:Spectrometry and spectroscopy

Article types

"The Analyst" publishes the following types of articles: Research Papers (which contain original scientific work that has not been published previously); Communications (which contain original scientific work that has not been published previously and is of an urgent nature. The popular i-section appears in every issue and contains a mix of reviews, highlights and general interest articles aimed at the non specialist. These are commissioned articles and include critical reviews, tutorial reviews, highlights, forum (profiles and perspectives).

Audience/readership

Educators, students and researchers active in the theory and application of analytical and bioanalytical techniques.

References

External links

* [http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/an/index.asp The Analyst homepage]
* [http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ RSC Publishing homepage]