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| Analyst (journal) | |
|---|---|
| Title | Analyst |
| Discipline | Chemistry |
| Abbreviation | Anal. |
| Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| History | 1876–present |
Analyst (journal) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry that focuses on analytical chemistry, instrumentation, and methodology. Founded in 1876, it has chronicled developments linked to laboratories, societies, and applied research in places such as London, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and international research centers including MIT, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology and Max Planck Society. The journal connects communities spanning institutions like the Chemical Society (Great Britain), Royal Institution, American Chemical Society, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, CNRS, CSIC, RIKEN and Tsinghua University.
Analyst was established in the late Victorian period alongside periodicals such as Nature (journal), Proceedings of the Royal Society, Journal of the Chemical Society, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and Transactions of the Faraday Society. Early volumes recorded contributions tied to figures associated with Royal Society meetings, British Association for the Advancement of Science assemblies, and exhibitions like the Great Exhibition. Over decades the journal reflected transitions paralleling developments at institutions such as University of Oxford, King's College London, Imperial College London, University College London, University of Manchester, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh and global centers including University of Tokyo, Seoul National University, National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne. During the 20th century Analyst published amid conflicts and recoveries involving events like World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the Marshall Plan era and the expansion of international collaborations involving organizations such as UNESCO, NATO, European Research Council and Wellcome Trust.
Analyst covers experimental and theoretical work relevant to practitioners at laboratories in academic and industrial settings including Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Novartis, Bayer, Siemens, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Agilent Technologies. Topics include instrumental techniques exemplified by innovations linked to mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron microscopy, electrochemistry, fluorescence spectroscopy, chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, surface plasmon resonance, surface-enhanced Raman scattering and atomic force microscopy. The journal also publishes methodological advances concerning assays used in contexts like Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, Food and Drug Administration, European Medicines Agency and National Institutes of Health. Cross-cutting themes relate to laboratories at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, CERN, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory applications in areas tied to pharmaceutical research, forensic science, environmental monitoring, clinical diagnostics and materials science.
The journal is managed under editorial procedures similar to journals such as Chemical Communications, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography A, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry and Talanta. Editors and editorial boards historically included academics from University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Manchester, University of California, San Diego, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Chicago and ETH Zurich. Publication frequency and formats align with standards observed at the Royal Society of Chemistry and comparable publishers including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis. Peer review workflows resonate with practices used by Nature Communications, Science Advances, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), ACS Publications and Wiley Online Library.
Analyst is indexed in major bibliographic and citation services such as Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Chemical Abstracts Service, Science Citation Index, Google Scholar and Compendex. Library and discovery services that list the journal include JSTOR, ProQuest, EBSCOhost, CrossRef and WorldCat. Institutional repositories and aggregators linking to Analyst content include arXiv, bioRxiv, HAL (open archive), PubMed Central and national libraries such as the British Library, Library of Congress, Bibliothèque nationale de France and National Diet Library. Funding agencies and assessment bodies like Research Councils UK, Horizon Europe, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council consider publications in Analyst in evaluations.
Analyst has influenced analytical practices referenced alongside landmark works published in Analytical Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Reviews, Nature Chemistry and Science (journal). Its articles have been cited in policy and technical documents issued by agencies such as the World Health Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, European Chemicals Agency and national standards bodies like British Standards Institution, International Organization for Standardization and American National Standards Institute. The journal's reception among professional societies including the Royal Society of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and Society for Applied Spectroscopy reflects its role in shaping curricula at universities like University of Warwick, University of Leeds, University of Bristol, University of Southampton and Durham University.
Analyst has published influential articles that intersect with advances attributed to figures and projects associated with Frederick Sanger, Dorothy Hodgkin, Alexander Fleming, Robert Robinson, Linus Pauling, Richard Feynman, Ernst Rutherford, Marie Curie, Michael Faraday and Joseph Lister traditions in analytical practice. Contributions have advanced methods used in studies linked to Human Genome Project, CRISPR-Cas9, Higgs boson detector calibration at CERN, environmental monitoring after events like Chernobyl disaster, Deepwater Horizon oil spill and public health responses to outbreaks such as SARS epidemic, H1N1 influenza pandemic and COVID-19 pandemic. Representative technological impacts span improvements in liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry, gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, electrospray ionization, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization and biosensing platforms used by institutions such as Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Karolinska Institute.
Category:Chemistry journals