about Acta Crystallographica Section C

Distribution of articles

In the last year, authors from 33 different countries published in the journal, the top five being China, the USA, Germany, Mexico and Brazil.

Aims and scope

Acta Crystallographica Section C, Structural Chemistry is the premier venue for publishing studies where structural insights drive breakthroughs across the chemical sciences, highlighting interesting research facilitated by the determination, calculation or analysis of structures.

Articles published in the journal may report results relevant to structural chemistry obtained through crystallographic techniques such as electron, powder and X-ray diffraction, as well as other complementary 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. Additionally, data-driven discovery studies that mine crystallographic and spectroscopic databases to uncover novel structure-property correlations and predictive models are featured.

Articles that integrate both theoretical and experimental approaches are welcomed. These studies should aim to connect structural observations with the properties, activity, reactivity and function of the molecules being investigated. Authors are encouraged to discuss the significance and implications of the compounds studied. The submission of short best-practice articles reviewing any aspect of small-molecule crystallography or the interpretation of structural chemistry results is also welcomed.

Submissions can be in any format (including Word or CIF), with accompanying data where appropriate. Articles are free to publish with no submission fees or page charges. Open access is optional, and it may be covered by a transformative deal with your institution.

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

2024 JCR data

Impact factor: 0.9
Journal citation indicator: 0.27
5-year impact factor: 0.8
Total cites: 10885
Immediacy index: 0.3
Cited half-life: 9.7 years

Journal citation distribution

The citation distributions are for citations made in 2023 and 2024. For more information, see https://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/11/062109.

Eigenfactor® metrics

Eigenfactor® score: 0.00057
Article influence® score: 0.122

Scopus metrics

CiteScore: 1.4

2024 journal statistics

Downloads: 1849313
Number of submissions: 169
Acceptance rate: 49%
Average publication time: 2.7 months
Number of articles published: 104
Number of pages: 820

Peer review

Peer review process
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Number of reviews requested: 539
Number of reviews received: 230

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

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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

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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.



Forthcoming special issues

Best practice in crystallography series

Published special issues

Advances in electron diffraction for structural characterization

Crystallography in Latin America: a vibrant community

Halogen, chalcogen, pnictogen and tetrel bonds: structural chemistry and beyond (May 2023)

Polyoxometalates (November 2018)

NMR Crystallography (March 2017)

Scorpionates: a golden anniversary (November 2016)

Full details are available on the special issues page.

An interesting collection of previously published articles features Coordination polymers, with an introduction by Len Barbour.

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