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Distribution of articles
In the last year, authors from 27 different countries published in the journal, the top five being the USA, Poland, China, the UK and Germany.
Aims and scope
Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry publishes science with structural content, in particular, important results relating to the chemical sciences. Structural Chemistry is the journal of choice for the rapid publication of articles that highlight interesting research facilitated by the determination, calculation or analysis of structures.
These results may have been obtained by crystallographic techniques, such as electron, powder and X-ray diffraction, or by other techniques, including but not limited to spectroscopic and computational studies. Articles may report important new structural information on any type of chemical species, including polymorphs, coordination polymers, inorganics and minerals, liquid crystals, nanostructures, pharmaceutical compounds and natural products. The journal also publishes knowledge-based discovery studies, using available data to identify novel connections or solutions via computational methods and data analysis techniques.
We welcome articles that integrate both theoretical and experimental approaches. These studies should aim to connect the structural observations with the properties, activity and reactivity of the molecule being investigated. Authors are encouraged to discuss the significance and implications of the compounds studied. We also encourage the submission of short best-practice articles reviewing any aspect of crystallography or the interpretation of structural results.
Publisher information
Publisher name: International Union of Crystallography (co-published with Wiley)
Organisational address: 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England
Business structure: not-for-profit organisation
Organisation owner: the International Union of Crystallography is owned by the crystallographic community. It is governed by a General Assembly and an Executive Committee, see https://www.iucr.org/iucr/governance/ec
General information
Title: Acta Crystallographica Section C
Subtitle: Structural Chemistry
Abbreviated title: Acta Cryst. C
ISSN: 2053-2296
CODEN: ACSCGG
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S20532296
Publication frequency: monthly
Citation and statistical information
Impact factor history
2023 JCR data
Impact factor: 0.7
Journal citation indicator: 0.24
5-year impact factor: 0.7
Total cites: 10308
Immediacy index: 0.5
Cited half-life: 8.7 years
Journal citation distribution
The citation distributions are for citations made in 2022 and 2023. For more information, see https://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/11/062109.
Eigenfactor® metrics
Eigenfactor® score: 0.00074
Article influence® score: 0.117
Scopus metrics
CiteScore: 1.6
2023 journal statistics
Downloads: 355549
Number of submissions: 132
Acceptance rate: 49%
Average publication time: 2.9 months
Number of articles published: 67
Number of pages: 529
Peer review
Peer review process
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Number of reviews requested: 404
Number of reviews received: 183
Open access
Journal policy: the journal operates
a hybrid open-access policy; transformative arrangements are available
Open-access licence: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0 International)
Green open access: author accepted manuscripts may be deposited with no embargo under a CC-BY licence
Publishing costs
Submission fees: none
Page charges: none
Colour charges: none
Open-access option: the open-access fee is from USD 1790; click here for more details
Abstracting details
Acta Crystallographica Section C is covered by:
- Biological Abstracts
- Cambridge Structural Database
- Ceramic Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Crossref
- Current Chemical Reactions Database
- Google Scholar
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
- INSPEC
- Medline
- Metals Abstracts/METADEX
- PubMed Central
- Reaction Citation Index
- Science Citation Index
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- SCISEARCH
- Scopus
Features for authors
- Online manuscript submission, ease of submission
- WORD and LaTeX templates available
- Online tools to help prepare papers
- Quality technical editing
- Supporting information can be published
- Online status check facility
- Article publicity
- Download, citation and altmetrics statistics available
Features for readers
- E-mail alerting (sign up, update your settings, unsubscribe)
- RSS feeds
- Forthcoming articles listing
- Highlighted articles
- Open-access articles
- Online access to all articles back to the first issue
- Full text, article title, keyword, abstract/synopsis and author searching
- Links to World Directory of Crystallographers entries
- Easy navigation within each article
- Citation links to IUCr journals, Chemical Abstracts Service, Crossref, Medline and Web of Science
- Immediate access to supporting information
- Interactive three-dimensional structure visualizations
- Linking to structural databases
- Hyperlinks to IUCr Online Dictionary of Crystallography and IUPAC Gold Book
- Check for citations of article in Web of Science, IUCr journals and Crossref
- Single articles may be purchased
- Forthcoming meetings listing
- Twitter feed
- Facebook page
- Sample issue available
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Journal policies
- Editorial policies
- Article correction and retraction policy
- Ethics
- Author rights
- Copyright and licencing policy
- NIH public access policy
- Permissions requests
Contact us
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Diversity and inclusion
We affirm that all aspects of the publication process, as well as the research undertaken in support of publication, should be conducted in such a way as to maximize inclusion and diversity in all its forms, wherever possible.
