According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 2.098. Currently, the editors are Malgorzata Baranska, Joel Bowman, Sylvio Canuto, Christian W. Huck, Judy Kim, Huimin Ma, Siva Umapathy The journal was established in 1939 as Spectrochimica Acta. In 1967, Spectrochimica Acta was split into two journals, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy and Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy. Part A obtained its current title in 1995.