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Publishing in Green Analytical Chemistry
Salvador Garrigues and Miguel de la Guardia
Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Scientific literature continues to be the main diffusion channel for new developments and knowledge in
analytical chemistry and thus, the interest of the community on a subject can be evaluated from the number
of published papers, related patents and communications in international congresses which year after year,
include the characteristic keywords of the topic. So, if the analytical chemistry community is interested in
Green Analytical Chemistry it can be easily verified by the evolution of the scientific literature and thus, one
of the objectives of those who have been involved in this task must be the diffusion of the ideas and
developments on greening the analytical methods. This task then must be done together with the efforts
indicated in previous chapters about the integration of the Green Analytical Chemistry ideas and strategies in
the teaching activities.
On considering the classical diffusion channels of the new developments in analytical chemistry (see
Figure 4.1) it must be accepted that scientific publication in international journals is the most common method
of diffusion and in this sense, original papers and review articles are the most commonly cited sources of
knowledge. However, other less frequently used communication methods, like books, presentations in
international meetings and patents must be also considered in order to have a complete description of the state
of a topic.
Regarding the time elapsed from the development of new ideas and results and their availability for the
scientific community, presentation in international congresses, MSc and PhD memories, together with
national and international patents, are the faster communication methods. However, it must be considered
that patents involve a series of filters and costs and these facts limit the use of this method for the communication
of new results as well as providing a delay in being easily available to the community. On the other hand
congress presentations are limited by the dates and geographical characteristics of the meetings and the
availability of these data is terribly conditioned as it is for academic documents. So publication in international
journals followed by writing topics is mandatory if we would like to spread our results to the whole scientific
