EDITORIAL
Global Analysis I recently had the privilege of writing an editorial for the Japanese analytical chemistry journal Bunseki Kagaku (1990, No. 8, p. 583), in which I stated that one of the most effective methods for building international cooperation and communication is through the publication of scholarly research in internationally read technical journals. When I became Editor of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY in 1980, it was my goal to encourage greater participation by scientists around the world in this premier journal in the field of analytical chemistry. The JOURNAL, which has been published by the American Chemical Society for the past 61 years, has a wide international distribution and readership (more than 105,000). A review of the papers published in our JOURNAL during the past few years shows that we have a significant international component. Statistics for the period 1983 through 1988 show that approximately 30% of the scientific papers published in ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY were from non-U.S. contributors. In 1989 authors from 26 countries (from Australia to Yugoslavia) published in the JOURNAL. The major contributors were Japan (40 papers), Canada (26), the Federal Republic of Germa-
ny (13), the United Kingdom (11), and Australia and Sweden (8 each). All of the papers published are of very high quality and contribute significantly to a better understanding and recognition of the important research being performed by our colleagues around the world. In addition to contributions from authors in the same country, there is an increasing trend toward joint authorship of papers by scientists from different countries. Thus, approximately 27 papers were published in 1989 by authors from 2 or 3 different countries around the world, including a number of coauthors from the Pacific nations and Europe. These statistics illustrate that the spirit of international cooperation is alive and well in these pages. The worldwide distribution of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY ensures that our important papers are readily available for reading and archiving everywhere. It is therefore apparent that analytical chemists do speak the same language.
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