Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC): tradition and vision
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Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC): tradition and vision Günter Gauglitz 1 & Stephen A. Wise 2
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In contrast to other analytical chemistry journals, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) has not only a publisher but it also has a number of European chemistry societies as coowners. One reason for the multiple owners is the origin of ABC, which was originally founded as Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie (Journal for Analytical Chemistry) by Karl Remigius Fresenius nearly 160 years ago. In 1990, Wilhelm Fresenius changed the journal’s name to Fresenius’ Journal of Analytical Chemistry to emphasize the international reputation of the journal, which received its first submissions in English in the 1950s [1]. In the mid-1990s, ten European chemical societies and two commercial publishers established a collaboration “to provide a combination of excellent scientific quality, reasonable subscription rates and high commercial efficiency… with the intention of publishing the best chemistry from Europe and the rest of the world, while promoting and preserving the desirable and necessary diversity of the scientific publications” [2]. When Fresenius’ Journal of Analytical Chemistry was sold in 2001, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) (Society of German Chemists) with its president Heindirk tom Dieck seized the opportunity together with the owner, SpringerVerlag, to move forward with a European journal of analytical chemistry [3]. At the beginning, the GDCh, the Société Française de Chimie (SFC) (French Society of Chemistry), and the Sociedad Española de Química Analitica (SEQA) (Spanish Society of Analytical Chemistry) joined SpringerVerlag as co-owners of the journal. Their society journals, Fresenius’ Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Analusis, and Chimica Analitica, respectively, were merged to create a * Günter Gauglitz [email protected] * Stephen A. Wise [email protected] 1
Institute for Theoretical and Physical Chemistry, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany
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Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health, (NIH-ODS), Bethesda, MD, USA
new journal, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, which became the sixth member of the European family of chemical journals [2]. Following the tradition of the original society analytical chemistry journals, the scope of this new journal covered the entire range of analytical and bioanalytical research and its application. From the beginning, ABC’s focus was on analytical chemistry in environmental, material, and life sciences. However, in comparison to the former society journals, emphasis was placed on a multidisciplinary approach for solving analytical and bioanalytical problems, and, in particular, bioscience was given greater coverage in the new journal than in its predecessors. During the negotiations of the European chemistry societies and Springer-Verlag, the co-owners, in conju
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