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Journal overview

Aims and scope:

Analytical Chemistry Insights covers current developments in all areas of the field, including analytical methodology, techniques and instrumentation in the fundamental and applied areas of the field. The journal also focuses on drug analysis and analytical methodology and instrumentation, in recognition of the interrelationship between analytical chemistry and pharmaceutical analysis.

Analytical Chemistry Insights seeks to be the most timely journal for those who need to be up to date with the latest and most important developments in the field. The journal offers high-speed and credible pre-production submission processing to authors. By publishing in open-access format, authors are able to communicate with the widest possible group of readers.

Editorial standards and procedures:

Submissions, excluding editorials, letters to the editor and dedications, will be peer reviewed by two reviewers.  Reviewers are required to provide fair, balanced and constructive reports.  

Under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy authors may appeal against reviewers' recommendations which are ill-founded, unobjective or unfair.  Appeals are considered by the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor.

Papers are not sent to peer reviewers following submission of a revised manuscript. Editorial decisions on re-submitted papers are based on the author's response to the initial peer review report.

Indexing:

This journal is indexed by the following services:

• Pubmed
  
• SCOPUS
• Google Scholar
• CAS
• DOAJ
• Intute
• EBSCO Academic Search Complete
• OAIster
  

SPARC Europe Seal award winner:

This journal has been awarded a SPARC Europe Seal. The Seal is an initiative of SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) which is awarded to journals applying a Creative Commons CC-BY copyright license and that make journal metadata accessible to DOAJ.  

 Amongst other important services DOAJ makes metadata OAI-compliant.  This in turn enhances the visibility of papers and allows OAI-harvesters to include the details of journal articles in their services. We encourage readers to make use of this valuable resource.  The DOAJ search page is available here.

National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy compliant:

As of April 7 2008, the US NIH Public Access Policy requires that all peer reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding be deposited in the Pubmed Central archive.

If you are an NIH employee or grantee Libertas Academica will ensure that you comply with the policy by depositing your paper at Pubmed Central on your behalf. 

Information for authors

• Original research articles.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. They may cover basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, and equipment reviews.
• Commentaries: focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue.
• Hypotheses: articles that present an original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable.
• Letters to the Editor: these can be either a re-analysis of a previously published article, or a response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication.
• Methodology articles: these discuss a new experimental method, test or procedure. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Meeting reports: a report pertaining to activity at a meeting or conference Articles published in this journal are immediately available without delay upon publication and enjoy substantial visibility.

All submissions are subject to prompt, objective and fair peer review in compliance with our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.  Copyright in published articles remains with the author(s).  Authors are continually informed of the progress of their paper and our staff are friendly and responsive. 

One author recently wrote: "I would like to say that this is the most author-friendly editing process I have experienced in over 150 publications. Thank you most sincerely."

Criteria for publication: 

Publication is dependent on peer reviewers' judgement of papers.  Reviewers are asked to provide thoughtful and unbiased feedback to authors to ensure that the conclusions of papers are valid and manuscripts achieve reasonable standards of scholarliness and intelligibility. 

Previous work in the field must be acknowledged and papers should read without unreasonable difficulty.  Papers should fit comfortably within the scope of the journal.

Reviewers are asked to act in a fair, objective and constructive manner which maintains quality standards and helps authors to communicate their research.  They are instructed that in areas of genuinely novel research issues may be raised which cannot immediately be resolved and that absolutely rigorous validation of data may therefore not be possible. 

More information on the role of peer reviewers is available on the information for reviewers page.  Where authors consider that reviewers have made recommendations which are unreasonable, unobjective or ill-founded they may appeal them to the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.

Articles submitted to other journals:

We are willing to consider papers which have been peer reviewed by other journals but not accepted for publication. 

Services for authors:

Prior to peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper's reference style revised to meet our requirements,
• Have your paper's English revised by specialist English-speaking technical editors.

After peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper revised in accordance with peer reviewer's recommendations and have a summary of responses to the reviewers created by our specialist external substantive editors,
• Provide bound reprints of your article in colour or black and white ,
• Provide online-early rapid publication if your paper prior to typesetting.

What other authors have said:

Libertas Academica actively requests, receives and acts upon feedback from authors, readers and editorial boards.  Here's what some recent authors have said about us:

"Within a couple of days the reviewers had been procured and the manuscript was out."

"The communication between your staff and me has been terrific.  Whenever progress is made with the manuscript, I receive notice.  Quite honestly, I've never had such complete communication with a journal."

"LA is different, and hopefully represents a kind of scientific publication machinery that removes the hurdles from free flow of scientific thought."

Article processing fees:

All submissions to this journal are subject to an article processing fee if they are accepted for publication.  Article processing fees are used to fund the processing of your paper and development of the journal.  Article processing fees are the only compulsory charge you will face and do not vary according to word count, page count, colour figures or any other factor.  There is no additional charge for the author(s) to make any use of their article and no charge to readers to access it.

Full fee waivers are available for authors working in undeveloped nations and partial discounts of 20-50% are available to authors in other nations.  Authors must be able to verifiably demonstrate their suitability for a discount or waiver.  Availability of waivers and discounts is subject to monthly availability and is given at the publisher's discretion.  Waivers and discounts must be applied for prior to submission.  Neither are available after submission.

Register as a peer reviewer:

Do you wish to register as a peer reviewer?  Or are you already a registered peer reviewer but you need to update your contact details?   To register or update your details visit the peer reviewer registration form. 

Applicants must be able to demonstrate at least five years of continuous experience in the journal's subject area including at least two in the previous 24 months.

Editor in Chief profile

Gabor Patonay is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Georgia State University. He received his M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary. After graduation he spent a brief period at the same school mostly developing new analytical instruments and techniques. In 1982, he joined Professor Isiah M. Warner's group at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, as a postdoctoral associate where he pursued research in molecular absorption and luminescence spectroscopy, multidimensional luminescence measurements; and analytical use of cyclodextrins and micelles in luminescence spectroscopy and development of computer applications for chemical analyses. He joined the faculty of Georgia State University (GSU), Atlanta, Georgia in 1987 teaching analytical courses. Since joining GSU Dr. Patonay has been active in several areas of analytical chemistry research including near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence spectroscopy and the development of new NIR optical detection methods. NIR fluorescence has the highest utility in applications where the interference is significant, i.e., in biological samples. During the last several years Dr. Patonay and his research group have developed new bioanalytical and biomedical applications using NIR probes and labels. Lately his research group has been active in developing new forensic analytical tools for presumptive trace evidence detection using visible and NIR dyes.

Dr. Patonay has been active in the scientific peer review process, reviewing manuscripts for numerous journals and grant applications for federal and state granting agencies as well as private foundations. He served on editorial boards for scientific journals and organized several conference symposia. Dr. Patonay has published over 180 papers, is the author of several book chapters and patents, and has presented over 200 conference presentations.

Editorial Board

David P Ballou, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Lawrence A Bottomley, PhD
Professor, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Herman Budnikov, PhD
Senior Doctor, Professor, Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; Head of Analytical Chemistry Department, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia

Peter Dedon, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Hunter College of the City University of New York, and Adjunct Professor, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

Charles Michael Drain, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Adjunct Professor, The Rockefeller University Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

Kent S Gates, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

Charles B Grissom, PhD
Professor of Chemistry; Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, Chemistry Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Robert Hardy, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Liang Li, PhD
Professor of Chemistry & Canada Research Chair in Analytical Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ryszard Jankowiak, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

Jozef Lehotay, PhD
Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Marcia Majda, PhD
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Kouichi Nakagawa, PhD
Assistant Professor, RI Research Center, Department of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima City, Fukushima, Japan

Thomas M Orlando, PhD
Chair, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Adjunct Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

H Singh, PhD, MPH, CRA
Professor and Chair, Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA, USA

Charles L Wilkins, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

David R Williams, PhD
Harry G Day Chair in Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Mingdi Yan, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA

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