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Journal of Separation Science

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ15761632 ↗
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The Journal of Separation Science is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering analytical chemistry. It was established in 1978 as the Journal of High Resolution Chromatography & Chromatography Communications: HRC & CC. In 1989, it was renamed the Journal of High Resolution Chromatography. It obtained its current name in 2001, when it also absorbed the preexisting Journal of Microcolumn Separations, which had been established in 1989. It is an organ of the European Society for Separation Science and the California Separation Science Society. The editor-in-chief is František Švec (Charles University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.645, ranking it 25th out of 83 journals in the category "Chemistry, Analytical".

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1989, 2001, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Journal, Separation and Science can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Separation Science” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.