Talanta provides a forum for the publication of original research papers, preliminary communications, and critical reviews in
all branches of pure and applied analytical chemistry. Papers are evaluated based on established guidelines, including the fundamental
nature of the study, scientific novelty, substantial improvement or ... click here for full Aims & Scope
Talanta provides a forum for the publication of original research papers, preliminary communications, and critical reviews in
all branches of pure and applied analytical chemistry. Papers are evaluated based on established guidelines, including the fundamental
nature of the study, scientific novelty, substantial improvement or advantage over existing technology or methods, and demonstrated analytical
applicability. Original research papers on fundamental studies, and novel sensor and instrumentation development, are especially encouraged.
Novel or improved applications in areas such as clinical and biological chemistry, environmental analysis, geochemistry, and materials
science and engineering are welcome.
Analytical performance of methods should be determined, including interference and matrix
effects, and methods should be validated by comparison with a standard method, or analysis of a certified reference material. The developed
method should especially comprise information on selectivity, sensitivity, detection limits, accuracy, and reliability. However, applying
official validation or robustness studies to a routine method or technique does not necessarily constitute novelty. Proper statistical
treatment of the data should be provided. Relevant literature should be cited, including related publications by the authors, and authors
should discuss how their proposed methodology compares with previously reported methods.
Since classical spectrophotometric measurements
and applications (including derivative spectrophometry), fluorimetry, solvent extraction, titrimetry, chemometrics, etc. are well established
and are considered routine analytical methods, studies in such areas should demonstrate a unique and substantial advantage over presently
known systems. New reagents or systems should demonstrate clear advantage, and their presentation should be comprehensive rather than
generating a series of similar papers for several analytes or similar reagents. Modifications of reagents should demonstrate significant
improvements. Obvious application of known chemistries or methods to established instrumental techniques are discouraged.
Application
of established analytical approaches to relatively simple matrices having no major interferences, such as pharmaceutical preparations,
are discouraged unless considerable improvements over other methods in the literature are demonstrated. Papers dealing with analytical
data such as stability constants, pKa values, etc. should be submitted to more specific journals, unless novel analytical
methodology is demonstrated, or important analytical data are provided which could be useful in the development of analytical procedures.
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