''SLAS Technology'' (Translating Life Sciences Innovation) is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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published by the
Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening
Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is a scientific and professional society formed in 2010 as a merger between the Association for Laboratory Automation and the Society for Biomolecular Sciences. The mission of SLAS is "to brin ...
in partnership with
Elsevier
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. The
editor-in-chief
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is Edward Kai-Hua Chow, Ph.D. (
National University of Singapore
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). The journal explores ways in which scientists adapt advancements in technology for scientific exploration and experimentation, especially in life sciences research and development. This includes drug-delivery; diagnostics; biomedical and molecular imaging; personalized and precision medicine; high-throughput and other laboratory automation technologies; micro/nanotechnologies; analytical, separation and quantitative techniques; synthetic chemistry and biology; informatics (data analysis, statistics, bio, genomic and chemoinformatics); and more. The journal was published from 1996 through 2016 with the title ''Journal of Laboratory Automation''. Its name changed in 2017 to more accurately reflect the evolution of its editorial scope.
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Abstracting and indexing
''SLAS Technology'' is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal's 2016 impact factor
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is 2.850, ranking it 9 out of 30 journals in the “Medical Laboratory Technology” category; /sup> 22 out of 76 journals in the "Chemistry, Analytical" category, /sup> and 30 out of 77 journals in the "Biochemical Research Methods" category. /sup>
References
1. Eglen, Richard (July 19, 2016). "Coming in the New Year: SLAS Discovery and SLAS Technology". Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening.
2. “Journals Ranked by Impact: Medical Laboratory Technology.” 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Plc is a British-American publicly traded analytics company that operates a collection of subscription-based services, in the areas of bibliometrics and scientometrics; business / market intelligence, and competitive profiling for p ...
. 2017.
3. “Journals Ranked by Impact: Chemistry, Analytical.” 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Plc is a British-American publicly traded analytics company that operates a collection of subscription-based services, in the areas of bibliometrics and scientometrics; business / market intelligence, and competitive profiling for p ...
. 2017.
4. “Journals Ranked by Impact: Biochemical Research Methods.” 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Plc is a British-American publicly traded analytics company that operates a collection of subscription-based services, in the areas of bibliometrics and scientometrics; business / market intelligence, and competitive profiling for p ...
. 2017.
External links
* {{Official website, https://slas-technology.org/
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