Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

Innovative research on the fundamental theory and application of spectrometric techniques.

Open Access: Hybrid

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The Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS) is the central journal for publishing innovative research on fundamentals, instrumentation, and methods in the determination, speciation and isotopic analysis of (trace) elements within all fields of application. This includes, but is not restricted to, the most recent progress, developments and achievements in all forms of atomic and elemental detection, isotope ratio determination, molecular analysis, plasma-based analysis and X-ray techniques.

ISSN: 1364-5544

Indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science

Journal Impact factor

3.1 (2024)

First decision time (all)

38 days

First decision time (peer reviewed)

42 days

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Scope

The journal welcomes full papers, communications, technical notes, critical and tutorial review articles, editorials, and comments, in addition to the Atomic Spectrometry Updates (ASU) literature reviews that are prepared by an expert panel.

Submissions are welcome in the following areas, but note this list reflects the current scope and authors are strongly encouraged to contact the Editorial team if they believe that their work offers potentially new and emerging research relevant to the journal remit.

All contributions are judged on originality and quality of scientific content, and appropriateness of length to content of new science.

Fundamental studies

Fundamental studies in the following:

New and existing sources for atomic emission, absorption, fluorescence and mass spectrometry and those that provide both atomic and molecular information
Sample introduction techniques for solids, liquids, gases
Improvements in sensitivity, selectivity, precision, accuracy and/or robustness
Isotope ratio measurements, including techniques for improving precision and mass bias correction
Single channel and multichannel simultaneous detection systems
Chemometrics, statistics, calibration techniques and internal standardisation
Theoretical and numerical modelling of fundamental processes related to all of the above methodologies

Novel or improved methodologies

Novel or improved methodologies in areas of application including, but not limited to the following:

Biosciences, including elemental, speciation and isotopic analysis in biological systems, immunoassays based on metal-labeled antibodies, bio-imaging, and nanoparticle toxicology
Geochemistry
Environmental science
Materials science, including engineered nanoparticles and quantum dots
Metrology, including reference materials
Forensic analysis
Food and agricultural sciences
Energy
Archaeometry

Molecular analysis

Molecular sources for elemental and isotopic analysis
Atomic sources for molecular analysis
Atomic and molecular techniques simultaneously used for complementary chemical information

Readership

The readership spans researchers in universities and related academic institutes, government and research organisations, industry, independent laboratories and consulting firms. The readership is cross-disciplinary and includes the following fields.

Atomic spectrometry
Mass spectrometry
Biomedical and clinical science
Pharmaceutical analysis
Geochemistry and environmental science
Toxicology
Materials and nanoanalysis
Forensics and archaeometry

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Meet the team

Chair

Heidi Goenaga-Infante

Chair

LGC

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Editorial board

Márcia Foster Mesko

Editorial board member

Universidade Federal de Pelotas

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Gerardo Gamez

Editorial board member

Texas Tech University

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Xiandeng Hou

Sichuan University

Bin Hu

Associate Editor

Wuhan University

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Advisory board

Maite Aramendia Marzo

University of Zaragoza

Marco Aurelio Zezzi Arruda

UNICAMP

Ramon Barnes

University Research Institute for Analytical Chemistry

Carole Bresson

French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

ASU Editorial board

J R Bacon

University of Strathclyde

N Barlow

Sandwell General Hospital

S Branch

Herbalife

O Butler

Health & Safety Laboratory Buxton

Editorial office

Philippa Ross

Executive Editor

Alice Smallwood

Deputy Editor

David Lake

Development Editor

Gabriel Clarke

Development Editor

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Themed collections

Our themed collections highlight areas of research, bring together contributions from groups within our research community and encourage focused discussion and collaboration.

Paper

TrCSL: A Transferred CNN-SE-LSTM Model for High-accuracy Quantitative Analysis of Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy with Small Samples

Paper

Simultaneous determination of Cl, Br and I by aerosol-assisted PVG-ICP-MS

Paper

Determination of the uptake of lanthanide doped-carbon dots by human cells using single cell ICP-ToF-MS

Technical note

Nitrogen MICAP with post-plasma ionization mass spectrometry for elemental fluorine quantitation

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