The ''Journal of Microscopy'' is the monthly
peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research.
Content
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as s ...
of the
Royal Microscopical Society which covers all aspects of
microscopy
Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view objects and areas of objects that cannot be seen with the naked eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye). There are three well-known branches of micr ...
including spatially resolved
spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation. Matter wa ...
, compositional mapping, and
image analysis
Image analysis or imagery analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques. Image analysis tasks can be as simple as reading bar coded tags or as sophi ...
. This includes technology and applications in
physics,
chemistry
Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...
,
material science, and the life sciences. It is published by
Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Society. The
editor-in-chief is Michelle Peckham, a Cell Biology professor at
University of Leeds.
The journal publishes
review articles, original research papers, short communications, and
letters to the editor. It was established in 1841 as the ''Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London'', obtaining its current name in 1869, with volume numbering restarting at 1.
Abstracting and indexing
The journals is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor of 1.758.
References
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