TY - JOUR
AU - Lube, Frank
AB -  1984, in immediate prospect, does not have quite the nightmare quality envisaged by George Orwell although many may feel that quite enough of his predictions have proved accurate and that still others may yet be realised. The main preoccupations of most people must be the threat of nuclear war and the economic condition. As far as the latter is concerned, the world seems to be emerging from the long recession that was triggered by the oil price increases of the early seventies but it is probably too early to say whether or not the recovery will be sustained. Everyone, including Chromatographia readers in particular, must hope that economic conditions continue to improve because one of the major casualties of a recession is research and chromatography is certainly at the forefront of a very wide range of research effort but especially in the biomedical field. During 1983 one volume of Chromatographia was published, No. 17, which amounted to over 700 pages covering about 120 papers, various editorials, book reviews and announcements. The only comment on the contents that we would offer is that the number of review articles, including the 'green pages' remains disappointingly low. In previous editorials at 
TI - Editorial
JF - Chromatographia
DO - 10.1007/BF02279453
DA - 1984-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/editorial-Hy7DM4XBCI
SP - 3
EP - 4
VL - 18
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -