title: The rise of environmental analytical chemistry as an interdisciplinary activity.
abstract: Modern scientific endeavour is increasingly delivered within an interdisciplinary framework. Analytical environmental chemistry is a long-standing example of an interdisciplinary approach to scientific research where value is added by the close cooperation of different disciplines. This editorial piece discusses the rise of environmental analytical chemistry as an interdisciplinary activity and outlines the scope of the Analytical Chemistry and the Environmental Chemistry domains of TheScientificWorldJOURNAL (TSWJ), and the appropriateness of TSWJ's domain format in covering interdisciplinary research. All contributions of new data, methods, case studies, and instrumentation, or new interpretations and developments of existing data, case studies, methods, and instrumentation, relating to analytical and/or environmental chemistry, to the Analytical and Environmental Chemistry domains, are welcome and will be considered equally.
authors: Analytical Science Team, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, UK. richard.brown@npl.co.uk
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Brown
mesh_terms: D056246:Chemistry, Analytic / Q000379:methods*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis / Q000517:prevention & control; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends; D012107:Research Design
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants