Chemometric view on “comprehensive chemometrics”

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Comprehensive chemometrics Science metrics State of the art This paper presents a critical review on " Comprehensive chemometrics. Chemical and biochemical data analysis " , Steven D. which is a four-volume set written by about 160 authors from 20 countries. Book evaluation is presented in two forms. The first one is a traditional subjective opinion of the reviewers after a careful study of the whole book set. The second approach is an attempt to employ objective multivariate analysis to the presented material and connect it with the state of the art of modern chemometrics in periodical publications. Objective explorative analysis confirms our personal impression that this book gives an adequate presentation of the modern chemometrics and should find a merited place on bookshelves alongside its predecessors. The up-to-date state and new applications of chemometrics as an interdisciplinary and continue to growth area needs to be available to a wide range of new and experience practitioners. Many books devoted to the basic and highly tailored aspects of chemometric can be found elsewhere. Elsevier maintains a special series called " Data handling in science and technology " [1]. The first attempt to present a comprehensive chemometric textbook inside this series should be attributed to " Chemometrics: A textbook " printed in 1988 [2]. This is a one-volume book of 488 pages. The second book of such a kind [3,4] was published ten years later. It consists of two volumes and of about 1600 pages. Now, some ten years later, it is a turn for the modern version of Comprehensive Chemometrics. The presented resource [5] is a four-volume book comprising 90 chapters and about 2400 pages. In contrast to the previous ones the latter does not present a holistic text written by a small team of the authors but a set of reasonably self-contained chapters offered by about 160 researches. The editors planned a work " that would cover all of the major areas of chemometric research and a wide sample of current applications " and also " a resource that captures the practice of chemometrics in the early twenty-first century. " Of course the editors tried to solve a very ambitious problem. The aim of the current review is to present this giant work to the readers trying to answer on the following questions. 1. For whom the first and …