Mass Spectrometry is an academic journal on both fundamentals and applications of mass spectrometry, owned and published by the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (MSSJ). Since its first issue in 2012, the journal has contributed to the development of mass spectrometry.
Journal data
- Publisher: The Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan
- Published articles: 212 (on February 22, 2021)
- Issue cycle: 2 times a year (irregular)
- Citation frequencies: 1.400 (2017), 1.038 (2016)
- ISSN (Print): 2187-137X
- ISSN (Online): 2186-5116
Aims and scope
Mass Spectrometry publishes articles across a broad range of topics in fundamental and applied mass spectrometry. Fundamental topics include instrumental principles, design, development and demonstration, mechanisms of ionization, energetics and chemical structures of gas-phase ions, theories of ion fragmentation, cluster ions, and potential energy surfaces. Applied topics include analysis of compounds or substances of biological, chemical, geological and physical interest. Well-established technologies used in new compounds or simple optimization studies are not usually considered.
Mass Spectrometry is owned and published by the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (MSSJ). The journal is Open Access and published continuously online as articles are ready. The aim of the journal is to facilitate the communication of new discoveries and innovative studies to the scientific community, as well as to foster young scientists in the field.
Welcome
Mass Spectrometry has adopted open access since 2018. Specifically, the journal publish the articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International license. This allows users to use articles without any need to contact the publisher or authors. Furthermore, authors retain the copyright in their articles and grant the MSSJ and the journal a license to publish their work. Creative Commons licensing has promoted number of articles viewed and the readership of journal.
As journals grow and develop, so too does the workload and the diversity of expertise needed to handle the variety of submitted manuscripts. In response, Mass Spectrometry changed to a more distributed editorial model in 2005. The editor-in-chief assesses each manuscript and allocates an associate editor to act as the monitoring editor. The monitoring editor assigns two referees and, based on their reviews, decides whether the manuscript requires revision. The editor-in-chief makes the final decision on each manuscript based on the monitoring editor’s recommendation. The result is that the best expert handles each submission and the average turnaround time from submission to first decision has decreased.
Mass Spectrometry will continue to ensure that it is a useful resource for members, scientists, researchers and anyone with an interest in technology of spectrometry. The journal is committed to delivering relevant information to researchers and remaining a useful part of their toolkit.
Benefits to authors
- Open Access – licensed under Creative Commons. Authors retain copyright of their work for manuscripts.
- No charge for publication.
- Timely decisions: The average time from submission to first decision is 17 days for regular articles and 12 days for Accelerated Communications.
- Timely dissemination: The average time from initial submission to publication for regular Research Articles is 100 days, and 58 days for Accelerated Communications.
- Constructive reviews from research-active scientists at all editorial levels.
- No page limits for regular Articles.
- Color figures are free for all manuscripts.
- Papers are highlighted to the MSSJ community through e-mail, JMSSJ, and curated virtual issues.
- Indexed in J-STAGE, Medline, PubMed, PubMed Central, Index Medicus, the Science Citation Index, Current Contents – Life Sciences, SCOPUS, BIOSIS Previews, Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, and the Chemical Abstracts Service.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
- Michisato Toyodamail
- Osaka University, Japan
Editors
- Satoko Akashimail
- Yokohama City University, Japan
- Yasushi Ishihamamail
- Kyoto University, Japan
- Hideya Kawasakimail
- Kansai University, Japan
- Hirochika Suminomail
- The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Takae Takeuchimail
- Nara Womenfs University, Japan
- Takeshi Bambamail
- Kyushu University, Japan
- Fumio Matsudamail
- Osaka University, Japan
- Nariyasu Manomail
- Tohoku University, Japan
- Jentaie Shiea
- National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Associate Editors
Editorial Advisory Board
- Yuji Arita
- Fukui University, Japan
- Yoshihiro Izumi
- Kyushu University, Japan
- Susumu Uchiyama
- Osaka University, Japan
- Yoichi Otsuka
- Osaka University, Japan
- Nana Kawasaki
- Yokohama City University, Japan
- Tomoya Kinumi
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
- Daisuke Saigusa
- Teikyo University, Japan
- Kazumi Saikusa
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
- Kanako Sekimoto
- Yokohama City University, Japan
- Yuki Sugiura
- Kyoto University, Japan
- Masaharu Tanimizu
- Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
- Lee Chuin Chen
- University of Yamanashi, Japan
- Kentaro Terada
- Osaka University, Japan
- Takafumi Hirata
- The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Akimasa Fujihara
- Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
- Masamitsu Maekawa
- Tohoku University, Japan
- Teruyuki Maruoka
- University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Tomoyuki Yatsuhashi
- Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
- Tohru Yamagaki
- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Japan
- Atsushi Yamamoto
- Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Japan
- Ken-ichi Yoshino
- Kobe University, Japan
- Yu Bai
- Peking University, China
- Ivan Chu
- The University of Hong Kong
- Pang-Hung Hsu
- National Taiwan Ocean University
- Hugh I Kim
- Korea University, Korea
- Huilin Li
- Sun Yat-sen University, China
- Han Bin Oh
- Sogang University, Korea
- Tara Pukala
- University of Adelaide, Australia
- Adam Trevitt
- University of Wollongong, Australia
- Yi-Sheng Wang
- Academia Sinica
- Zhongping Yao
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Senior Editorial Advisory Board
- Yoshinao Wada
- Osaka MCH Research Institute, Japan
- Toshifumi Takao
- Osaka University, Japan
- Kenzo Hiraoka
- University of Yamanashi, Japan
- Ryuichi Arakawa
- Kansai University, Japan
- Mitsuo Takayama
- Yokohama City University, Japan
- Takemichi Nakamura
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
- Koichi Tanaka
- Shimadzu Co., Japan
- Richard M. Caprioli
- Vanderbilt University, USA
- R. Graham Cooks
- Purdue University, USA
- Catherine Fenselau
- University of Maryland, USA
- Gary L. Glish
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- Michael Gross
- Washington University in St. Louis, USA