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. It was first published in the mid-1950s by the Society for Analytical Chemistry, which merged with other societies in 1980 to form the Royal Society of Chemistry. This service ended in 2022. ''Analytical Abstracts'' is available online only. It used to be published in a print edition on a monthly basis. The online version of the database is accessible to those who have access to ''Analytical Abstracts'' via an institutional licence. The online database is updated on a weekly basis, and users are able to sign up to receive email notifications informing them when an update has been submitted. Currently, Guy Jones is the executive editor and Sarah Rogers is content editor of the publication.About Analytical Abstracts
Retrieved on 2023-05-30. Rather than abstracting all articles from a list of analytical journals, ''Analytical Abstracts'' has a very focussed scope. Over half a million of articles are selected from a list of over 100 source journals, covering not only analytical chemistry, but also food and environmental chemistry subject areas (amongst others). The principal criteria for selecting an article is that it must deal with the practical measurement of one or more chemical species and must involve the use of a novel protocol. Classification of articles is performed on the basis of three aspects of the article: the analyte, the matrix and the concept. While it is not necessary for an article to describe all three aspects, at least one of them must be identifiable for inclusion in ''Analytical Abstracts''. Articles in ''Analytical Abstracts'' are taken from the following areas of analytical chemistry: * Chemometrics *

Chromatography In chemical analysis, chromatography is a laboratory technique for the Separation process, separation of a mixture into its components. The mixture is dissolved in a fluid solvent (gas or liquid) called the ''mobile phase'', which carries it ...

(LC, GC, CE etc.) * Sensors ( bio-, chemo- and immunosensors) * Food analysis * Pharmaceutical analysis * Biological analysis * The

-omics Omics is the collective characterization and quantification of entire sets of biological molecules and the investigation of how they translate into the structure, function, and dynamics of an organism or group of organisms. The branches of scien ...

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proteomics Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. Proteins are vital macromolecules of all living organisms, with many functions such as the formation of structural fibers of muscle tissue, enzymatic digestion of food, or synthesis and replicatio ...

metabolomics Metabolomics is the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites, the small molecule substrates, intermediates, and products of cell metabolism. Specifically, metabolomics is the "systematic study of the unique chemical fingerpri ...

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of molecular biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, ...

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Spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra. In narrower contexts, spectroscopy is the precise study of color as generalized from visible light to all bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Spectro ...

and spectrometry * Separation science * Sample preparation *

Mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. The results are presented as a ''mass spectrum'', a plot of intensity as a function of the mass-to-charge ratio. Mass spectrometry is used ...

* Titrimetry

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