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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ2404161 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Journal of Raman Spectroscopy is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of Raman spectroscopy, including Higher Order Processes, and Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering. It was established in 1973 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. The editor-in-chief is Laurence A. Nafie (Syracuse University).

Abstracting and indexing

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2025 impact factor of 2.2.

Notable papers

As of 2012, the most cited papers published by the journal are:

Rousseau, D. L.; Bauman, R. P.; Porto, S. P. S. (1980). "Normal mode determination in crystals". Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. 10 (1): 253–290. doi:10.1002/jrs.1250100152.

de Faria, D. L. A.; Venâncio Silva, S.; de Oliveira, M. T. (November 1997).

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“Journal of Raman Spectroscopy” enters the record as journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Journal, Raman and Spectroscopy can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 2025, 2012, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Journal, Raman and Spectroscopy.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Raman Spectroscopy” 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.