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Distribution of articles
In the last year, authors from 32 different countries published in the journal, the top five being the USA, Germany, the UK, China and Japan.
Aims and scope
Acta Crystallographica Section D welcomes the submission of articles covering any aspect of structural biology, with a particular emphasis on the structures of biological macromolecules or the methods used to determine them.
Reports on new structures of biological importance may address the smallest macromolecules to the largest complex molecular machines. These structures may have been determined using any structural biology technique including crystallography, NMR, cryoEM and/or other techniques. The key criterion is that such articles must present significant new insights into biological, chemical or medical sciences. The inclusion of complementary data that support the conclusions drawn from the structural studies (such as binding studies, mass spectrometry, enzyme assays, or analysis of mutants or other modified forms of biological macromolecule) is encouraged.
Methods articles may include new approaches to any aspect of biological structure determination or structure analysis but will only be accepted where they focus on new methods that are demonstrated to be of general applicability and importance to structural biology. Articles describing particularly difficult problems in structural biology are also welcomed, if the analysis would provide useful insights to others facing similar problems.
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 D
Subtitle: Structural Biology
Abbreviated title: Acta Cryst. D
ISSN: 2059-7983
CODEN: ABCRE6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S20597983
Publication frequency: monthly
Citation and statistical information
Impact factor history
2023 JCR data
Impact factor: 2.6
Journal citation indicator: 0.77
5-year impact factor: 5.2
Total cites: 19850
Immediacy index: 1.3
Cited half-life: 13.3 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: 0.01744
Article influence® score: 3.561
Scopus metrics
CiteScore: 4.5
2023 journal statistics
Downloads: 913065
Number of submissions: 113
Acceptance rate: 78%
Average publication time: 4.8 months
Number of articles published: 105
Number of pages: 1119
Peer review
Peer review process
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Number of reviews requested: 343
Number of reviews received: 204
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 1980; click here for more details
Abstracting details
Acta Crystallographica Section D is covered by:
- Biological Abstracts
- BIOSIS Previews
- Ceramic Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Crossref
- Current Contents: Life Sciences
- Cambridge Structural Database
- Google Scholar
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
- INSPEC
- Medline
- Metals Abstracts/METADEX
- Nucleic Acid Database
- Protein Data Bank
- PubMed Central
- 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)
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- 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
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- Sample issue available
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Journal policies
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- Article correction and retraction policy
- Ethics
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- Copyright and licencing policy
- NIH public access policy
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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.
