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Mass Spectrometry

Mass spectrometry is an analytical technique that identifies and quantifies the components of a sample by ionising molecules and measuring their mass-to-charge ratios, producing detailed information about chemical composition, molecular structure, and abundance. By converting molecules into ions and separating them …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 25× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Mass spectrometry is an analytical technique that identifies and quantifies the components of a sample by ionising molecules and measuring their mass-to-charge ratios, producing detailed information about chemical composition, molecular structure, and abundance. By converting molecules into ions and separating them according to mass and charge, the method enables highly sensitive and specific detection of compounds even within complex mixtures. It is frequently coupled with separation techniques such as liquid or gas chromatography, and tandem configurations allow fragmentation for deeper structural analysis. Applications span pharmaceuticals, clinical research, proteomics, food safety, environmental monitoring, and forensics. Within this field the journal publishes peer-reviewed research on liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry applications in food safety and on the use of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry to distinguish malignant from benign thyroid tissue by trace-element content. Further studies describe high-performance liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry methods for determining drugs such as danshensu and febuxostat in plasma, affinity-purification approaches coupled with tandem mass spectrometry, and discovery and quantification in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Additional work addresses the standardisation of GC/LC-mass spectrometry methods for emerging contaminants, feature-weighting for high-throughput data in cancer identification, and the characterisation of treated chemical compounds, reflecting the technique's central role across the analytical sciences.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2014

Discovery and Quantification in Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics

I. Chen EmilyCorresponding author
Proteomics Shared Resource at the Columbia University Medical Center, Herbert Irvine Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, NY 10032.
Exact topic Proteomics and Genomics Research Cited by 1 doi:10.14302/issn.2326-0793.jpgr-13-357

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 25 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Mass Spectrometry, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Developments in Mass Spectrometry.

Journal editorial board
Jennifer Paola Pascali · Italy Fabrizio Dal Piaz · Italy Peiying Yang · United States

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