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Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry is a Transformative Journal, and Plan S compliant
Impact factor: 3.1*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 37.0 days**
Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 41.0 days***
Chair: Heidi Goenaga-Infante
Indexed in Scopus and Web of Science
Open access publishing options available
Journal scope
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.
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:
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 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
All contributions are judged on originality and quality of scientific content, and appropriateness of length to content of new science.
JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship
This Lectureship recognises early career researchers, within 10 years of their PhD, who have made a significant contribution in the area of atomic spectrometry, in their independent academic career.
You can read about eligibility, how to nominate, see deadlines and all previous winners.
Find out more about the JAAS Emerging Investigator LectureshipSee who's on the team
Meet our Chair and all other board members for the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry journal.
Chair
Heidi Goenaga-Infante, LGC, UK
Editorial board members
Márcia Foster Mesko, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Gerardo Gamez, Texas Tech University, USA
Xiandeng Hou, Sichuan University, China
Bin Hu, Wuhan University, China
Björn Meermann, BAM, Germany
José-Luis Todolí, University of Alicante, Spain
Frank Vanhaecke, University of Ghent, Belgium
Christine Vanhoof, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium
Vassilia Zorba, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Marco Aurelio Zezzi Arruda, UNICAMP, Brazil
Ramon Barnes, University Research Institute for Analytical Chemistry, USA
Matthieu Baudelet, University of Central Florida, USA
Annemie Bogaerts, University of Antwerp, Belgium
José Broekaert, University of Hamburg, Germany
Ewa Bulska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Marta Costas-Rodríguez, Ghent University, Belgium
George Donati, Wake Forest University, USA
Carsten Engelhard, University of Siegen, Germany
Jörg Feldmann, University of Graz, Austria
Alexander Gundlach-Graham, Iowa State University, USA
Detlef Günther, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland
Wei Hang, Xiamen University, China
Gary Hieftje, Indiana University, USA
Steve Hill, University of Plymouth, UK
Takafumi Hirata, University of Tokyo, Japan
Zhaochu Hu, China University of Geosciences, China
Norbert Jakubowski, BAM, Germany
Gunda Koellensperger, University of Vienna, Austria
David Koppenaal, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, USA
Kerstin Leopold, University of Ulm, Germany
Kelvin Leung, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Lara Lobo, University of Oviedo, Spain
Yi Lv, Sichuan University, China
Dmitriy Malinovskiy, LGC, UK
R Kenneth Marcus, Clemson University, USA
Érico Marlon Moraes Flores, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
Vincent Motto-Ros, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France
Sohail Mushtaq, University of Bristol, UK
John Olesik, Ohio State University, USA
Christophe Pecheyran, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France
Spiros Pergantis, University of Crete, Greece
Jorge Pisonero, University of Oviedo, Spain
C. Derrick Quarles, Elemental Scientific, USA
Steven Ray, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Mark Rehkamper, Imperial College London, UK
Martín Resano, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Jacob Shelley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Patricia Smichowski, National Atomic Energy Commission, Argentina
Ralph Sturgeon, National Research Council, Canada
Joanna Szpunar, CNRS EP 132, France
Lu Yang, National Research Council Canada, Canada
J R Bacon, University of Strathclyde, UK
N Barlow, Sandwell General Hospital, UK
S Branch, Herbalife, UK
O Butler, Health & Safety Laboratory Buxton, UK
W R L Cairns, Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes of the Italian CNR , Italy
S Carter, INEOS, UK
M R Cave, British Geological Survey, UK
O Cavoura, University of West Attica, Greece
R Clough, University of Plymouth, UK
J M Cook, British Geological Survey, UK
A Cross, Reading Scientific Service Limited (RSSL), UK
C M Davidson, University of Strathclyde, UK
L Ebdon, UK
H Evans, University of Plymouth, UK
A Fisher, University of Plymouth, UK
U Fittschen, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
M Foulkes, University of Plymouth, UK
B Gibson, Intertek Sunbury, UK
C Harrington, SAS Trace Element Laboratory, Surrey Pathology Services, UK
S Hill, LGC, UK
S J Hill, University of Plymouth, UK
Y Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
R Mertz-Kraus, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
M Patriarca, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy
J Pisonero, University of Oviedo, Spain
A Robson, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK
B Russell, National Physical Laboratory, UK
M Sargent, LGC, UK
C M M Smith, St Ambrose High School, UK
A Taylor, Royal Surrey County Hospital, UK
R Taylor, University of Southampton, UK
J F Tyson, University of Massachusetts, USA
C Vanhoof, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium
L Vincze, Ghent University, Belgium
M White, Health & Safety Laboratory, UK
Philippa Ross, Executive Editor
Alice Smallwood, Deputy Editor
David Lake, Development Editor
Rebecca Garton, Editorial Manager
Gabriel Clarke, Publishing Editor
Derya Kara-Fisher, Publishing Editor
Emma Stephen, Publishing Editor
Ziva Whitelock, Publishing Editor
Darryl Wilks, Editorial Assistant
Andrea Whiteside, Publishing Assistant
Jeanne Andres, Publisher
Journal specific guidelines
For guidance on preparing your article please visit our Prepare your article, Resources for authors and Experimental data guidelines pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals. Please note the updated guidelines for electrophoretic gels and blots.
All submitted Communications, Technical notes and Full papers must include a 'Significance to JAAS' statement (no more than 100 words) that states how the work fits within the scope of the journal and highlights the novelty of the research to the atomic spectrometry community.
The statement should be written in plain language that is accessible to a broad, non-technical audience. It should not be a summary of the work reported, please do not repeat the article’s abstract. The statement will be seen by reviewers during the peer review process.
Bibliographic references should be listed at the end of the manuscript in numerical order as they appear in the manuscript. Bibliographic details should be cited in the order: year, volume, page, and must include the article title. For example: Érico Marlon de Moraes Flores, Analytical atomic spectrometry in South America – increasing the development and international cooperation in atomic spectrometric analysis, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2018, 33, 2032-2033.
Open access publishing options
Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry is a hybrid (transformative) journal and gives authors the choice of publishing their research either via the traditional subscription-based model or instead by choosing our gold open access option. Find out more about our Transformative Journals. which are Plan S compliant.
Gold open access
For authors who want to publish their article gold open access, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry charges an article processing charge (APC) of £2,750 (+ any applicable tax). Our APC is all-inclusive and makes your article freely available online immediately, permanently, and includes your choice of Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-NC) at no extra cost. It is not a submission charge, so you only pay if your article is accepted for publication.
Learn more about publishing open access.
Read & Publish
If your institution has a Read & Publish agreement in place with the Royal Society of Chemistry, APCs for gold open access publishing in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry may already be covered.
Check if your institution is already part of our Read & Publish community.
Please use your official institutional email address to submit your manuscript; this helps us to identify if you are eligible for Read & Publish or other APC discounts.
Traditional subscription model
Authors can also publish in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry via the traditional subscription model without needing to pay an APC. Articles published via this route are available to institutions and individuals who subscribe to the journal. Our standard licence allows you to make the accepted manuscript of your article freely available after a 12-month embargo period. This is known as the green route to open access.
Readership information
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
The readership spans researchers in universities and related academic institutes, government and research organisations, industry, independent laboratories and consulting firms.
Subscription information
JAAS is part of RSC Gold and Analytical Science subscription packages.
Online only 2025: ISSN 1364-5544 £2,775 / $3,779
*2023 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2024)
**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts from the previous calendar year
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