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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ6840043
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Microscopy and Microanalysis is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers original research in the fields of microscopy, imaging, and compositional analysis, including electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and live-cell imaging. It is published for the Microscopy Society of America.

It was established in February 1995, and was published by Cambridge University Press until Volume 29. All articles published until then first appeared online in The Cambridge Core section known as FirstView. From Volume 29 and onward, the journal was published by the Oxford University Press. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor is 3.414.

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This entry incorporates text from Microscopy and Microanalysis” 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.