Applied Spectroscopy Reviews (ASR) is an international and interdisciplinary journal that provides the latest information on the principles, methods, and applications of a number of diverse branches of spectroscopy, primarily from X-ray, infrared, Raman, atomic, mass, and NMR, luminescence/fluorescence, optical sensing, and microspectrometry. The journal presents discussions that relate physical concepts to chemical applications for chemists, physicists, biologists, and other scientists including clinicians and non-clinicians using spectroscopic techniques.

Whilst ASR publishes papers on interdisciplinary fields, the journal has a strong focus on the following topics of medicinal disciplines and welcomes papers with the following keywords.

    Medical investigations of various disease processes
    Cancer research
    Analysis of clinical biofluids
    Microbiology; Understanding bacteria, viruses and biofilms
    Immunology studies
    Histopathology, Spectroscopy of fresh and fixed tissues
    Understanding chemical pathway to the progression of various diseases
    Pharmacokinetics; Drug delivery and drug development

While the primary article type ASR publishes is reviews (both full and comprehensive reviews as well as mini-reviews), the journal will also consider very selected and unique experimental applications, particularly on the use of spectroscopy to solve problems such as diagnostic studies in basic sciences and medicine. In these cases, the results obtained and what they mean are more important than the method. Occasionally the journal will present special issues.

The submitting author should establish their scientific credentials and qualifications to write a review. This can be achieved by providing evidence of recent experimental publications from the last three years in your cover letter. Otherwise, the review may be rejected. The review should be a critical review of referenced literature. Contact the Editor or Associate Editors for further information/clarification. Please note, a positive reply does not mean acceptance as all papers are subject to review.

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Joseph Sneddon 
Department of Chemistry 
McNeese State University 
Lake Charles, LA 70609, 
USA


EDITORS FOR ASIA

Xiandeng (Dan) Hou 
College of Chemistry 
Sichuan University 
Chengdu 610064, China 

Yong-Ill Lee
Department of Chemistry 
Changwon National University 
Changwon, 641-773, Korea 

EDITOR FOR EUROPE
 
Ihtesham ur Rehman
Chair in Bioengineering 
Engineering Department 
Faculty of Science and Technology 
Lancaster University 
Lancaster, LA1 4YW, UK
 
EDITORIAL BOARD
VASIL ANDRUCH - University of Pavla Jozefa Šafárik, Košice, Slovakia 
ROLF W. BERG - Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark 
DAVID J. BUTCHER - Western Carolina University, North Carolina, USA 
IAN S. BUTLER - McGill University, Montréal, Canada
SERGIO CAROLI - Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Roma, Italy 
HOEIL CHUNG - Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, South Korea 
ANDREW R. DOWNES - Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Edinburgh, UK 
SERGIO L.C. FERREIRA - Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil 
JORGE L. GARDEA-TORRESDEY - University of Texas, Texas, USA 
MARIA GORETI RODRIGUES VALE - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 
BIN HU - Wuhan University, Wuhan, China 
CHENG ZHI HUANG - Southwest University, Chongqing, China 
JYRKI KALERVO KAUPPINEN - University of Turku, Turku, Finland 
MASARU KATO - The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 
BARRY LAVINE -    Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, USA 
YI LV - Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 
JEAN L. MARTY - Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France 
VICTOR MIHUTZ - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 
JANOS MINK - University of Veszprm, Hungary 
SIMO SAARAKKALA - University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 
KYUSEOK SONG - Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea 
CHIEU TRAN - Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA 
KAZUAKI WAGATSUMA - Tohoku University, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan 
QIUQUAN WANG - Xiamen University, Xiamen, China