Forensic Science

The distribution of forensic journals, reflections on authorship practices, peer-review and role of the impact factor

“…This is exactly what happened with the review by Brettell, Butler and Saferstein (114,115), which is published every 2 years, in the journal Analytical Chemistry (2004 impact factor 5.45). The 2005 version of the review contained 783 items in the bibliography most of which were citations to recent articles (published 2004 and 2003) from the major forensic science journals [114]. By contrast, in 2004, when Analytical Chemistry did not contain a review of the forensic sciences, there were only six citations awarded to JFS articles and seven citations to FSI articles published in 2003 and 2002.…”

Differentiation and dating of red ink entries of seals on documents by HPLC and GC/MS

“…It indicated that these IP reagents have enough abilities to form ion-pair with the dye components in the ink entries, but the retention times of the dye components were relatively shorter and the chromatographic peaks were sharper when TBABr was used as the IP reagent, so TBABr was selected as the IP reagent for the IP-HPLC analysis of the red stamp-pad ink entries. The buffer solutions (pH 7.0) with different concentrations of TBABr from 10 to 80 mmol/L (10,20,40, and 80 mmol/L, respectively) and the effect of pH value (5.0, 7.0, and 9.0) on the separation of the ink dye components were also investigated individually. Considering the separation, selectivity, and retention time of the dye components in the red ink pastes of seals, the mobile phase was selected as follows: 20 mmol/L TBABr buffer solution (pH 7.0) with ACN as organic modifier for the IP-HPLC analysis and a programmable gradient proportion of the buffer and ACN (from buffer/ACN v/v = 45:55 to 5:95 in 12 min) at the flow rate of 1.0 mL/min was used.…”

Recent advances in the applications of CE to forensic sciences (2001–2004)

“…In this process CE, and particularly capillary array electrophoretic instrumentation, and microdevice systems play a crucial role. Recent reviews covering the application of capillary electrophoretic techniques to forensic DNA typing have been published by Carey and Mitnik [88] and by Brettel et al [1].…”

“…Forensic science is a rapidly expanding research field, as is witnessed by the steady increase of the references of the section "Forensic Science" of the biennial application review series published by Analytical Chemistry, which in 2005 has collected as many as 789 citations [1].…”