''Analytical Abstracts'' is a

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and information retrieval service for

analytical chemistry Analytical chemistry studies and uses instruments and methods to separate, identify, and quantify matter. In practice, separation, identification or quantification may constitute the entire analysis or be combined with another method. Separati ...

, published by the

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. It was first published in the mid-1950s by the

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which merged with other societies in 1980 to form the Royal Society of Chemistry. ''Analytical Abstracts'' is currently available online only. It used to be published in 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. Rather than abstracting all articles from a list of analytical journals, ''Analytical Abstracts'' has a very focussed scope. Over half 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, matrix and 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 Chemometrics is the science of extracting information from chemical systems by data-driven means. Chemometrics is inherently interdisciplinary, using methods frequently employed in core data-analytic disciplines such as multivariate statistics, a ...

Chromatography In chemical analysis, chromatography is a laboratory technique for the 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 through a system ( ...

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

-omics The branches of science known informally as omics are various disciplines in biology whose names end in the suffix '' -omics'', such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, phenomics and transcriptomics. Omics aims at the collect ...

( proteomics,

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 fingerprin ...

, genomics) * Spectroscopy and spectrometry * Separation science * Sample preparation * Mass spectrometry *

Titrimetry Titration (also known as titrimetry and volumetric analysis) is a common laboratory method of quantitative chemical analysis to determine the concentration of an identified analyte (a substance to be analyzed). A reagent, termed the ''titrant'' ...

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