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Analyst is a Transformative Journal, and Plan S compliant
Impact factor: 4.2*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 8.0 days**
Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 26.0 days***
Editor-in-Chief: Norman Dovichi
Indexed in MEDLINE, Scopus and Web of Science
Open access publishing options available
Journal scope
Analyst publishes analytical and bioanalytical research that reports premier fundamental discoveries and inventions, and the applications of those discoveries, unconfined by traditional discipline barriers.
Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award
This Lectureship recognises early career researchers, within 10 years of their PhD, who have made a significant contribution to analytical chemistry, in their independent academic career.
You can read about eligibility, how to nominate, see deadlines and all of the award winners.
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Meet the editorial team
Find out who is on the editorial and advisory boards for the Analyst journal.
Editor-in-Chief
Norman Dovichi, University of Notre Dame, USA
Associate editors
Damien Arrigan, Curtin University, Australia
Ryan Bailey, University of Michigan, USA
Jaebum Choo, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Karen Faulds, University of Strathclyde, UK
Hideaki Hisamoto, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
Baohong Liu, Fudan University, China
Nicole Pamme, Stockholm University, Sweden
Hua-Zhong Yu, Reviews editor, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jun-Jie Zhu, Nanjing University, China,
Editorial board members
Susan Lunte, The University of Kansas, USA
Matthew Baker, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Paul Bohn, University of Notre Dame, USA
Claudia Conti, CNR, Italy
R Graham Cooks, Purdue University, USA
Jeffrey Dick, Purdue University, USA
Volker Deckert, University of Jena, Germany
Joshua Edel, Imperial College London, UK
Qun Fang, Zhejiang University, China
Facundo Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Roy Goodacre, University of Liverpool, UK
Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK
Robert T Kennedy, University of Michigan, USA
Kagan Kerman, University of Toronto, Canada
Christine Kranz, Ulm University, Germany
Annamalai Senthil Kumar, Vellore Institute of Technology University, India
Xiujun Li, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Lanqun Mao, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
María Marín, University of East Anglia, UK
Pavel Matousek, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Prakash Chandra Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Wei Min, Columbia University, USA
Boris Mizaikoff, University of Ulm, Germany
Howbeer Muhamadali, University of Liverpool, UK
Takeaki Ozawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ashley Ross, University of Cincinnati, USA
Muhammad Shiddiky, Griffith University, Australia
Debbie Silvester, Curtin University, Australia
Steven A Soper, University of Kansas, USA
Dana Spence, Michigan State University, USA
Nick Stone, University of Exeter, UK
Evan Williams, University of California, USA
Chaoyong James Yang, Xiamen University, China
Yilun Ying, Nanjing University, China
Rebecca Garton, Executive Editor
Alice Smallwood, Deputy Editor
Celeste Brady, Development Editor
David Lake, Development Editor
Sarah Whitehouse, Editorial Production Manager
Gabriel Clarke, Publishing Editor
Derya Kara-Fisher, Publishing Editor
Emma Stephen, Publishing Editor
Ziva Whitelock, Publishing Editor
Leo Curtis, Editorial Assistant
Andrea Whiteside, Publishing Assistant
Jeanne Andres, Publisher
Journal guidelines
For guidance on preparing your article please visit our Prepare your article, Resources for authors and Experimental data guidelines pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals. Please note the updated guidelines for electrophoretic gels and blots.
How do Analyst and Analytical Methods compare?
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Analyst, 2011, 136, 429
DOI: 10.1039/c0an90013c
Open access publishing options
Analyst is a hybrid (transformative) journal and gives authors the choice of publishing their research either via the traditional subscription-based model or instead by choosing our gold open access option. Find out more about our Transformative Journals. which are Plan S compliant.
Gold open access
For authors who want to publish their article gold open access, Analyst charges an article processing charge (APC) of £2,500 (+ any applicable tax). Our APC is all-inclusive and makes your article freely available online immediately, permanently, and includes your choice of Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-NC) at no extra cost. It is not a submission charge, so you only pay if your article is accepted for publication.
Learn more about publishing open access.
Read & Publish
If your institution has a Read & Publish agreement in place with the Royal Society of Chemistry, APCs for gold open access publishing in Analyst may already be covered.
Check if your institution is already part of our Read & Publish community.
Please use your official institutional email address to submit your manuscript; this helps us to identify if you are eligible for Read & Publish or other APC discounts.
Traditional subscription model
Authors can also publish in Analyst via the traditional subscription model without needing to pay an APC. Articles published via this route are available to institutions and individuals who subscribe to the journal. Our standard licence allows you to make the accepted manuscript of your article freely available after a 12-month embargo period. This is known as the green route to open access.
Readership information
Researchers, educators and students active in the theory and development of analytical and bioanalytical techniques.
Subscription information
Analyst is part of RSC Gold and Analytical Science subscription packages.
Online only 2024: ISSN 1364-5528, £2,467 / $4,318
*2022 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2023)
**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts from the previous calendar year
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