The ''Journal of Microscopy'' is the monthly

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of the

Royal Microscopical Society The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy. It was founded in 1839 as the Microscopical Society of London making it the oldest organisation of its kind in the world. In 1866, the Society gained it ...

which covers all aspects of

microscopy Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view subjects too small to 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 microscopy: optical mic ...

including spatially resolved

spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra. In narrower contexts, spectroscopy is the precise study of color as generalized from visible light to all bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Spectro ...

, compositional mapping, and

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. This includes technology and applications in

physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

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, and the life sciences. It is published by

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on behalf of the Society. The

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is Michelle Peckham, a Cell Biology professor at

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.
The journal publishes

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s, original research papers, short communications, and

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. 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 ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 1.758.

References

External links

* Microscopy Royal Microscopical Society Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Publications established in 1841 Monthly journals English-language journals Optics journals {{optics-journal-stub