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Distribution of articles
In the last year, authors from 36 different countries published in the journal, the top five being the USA, Germany, France, Japan and China.
Aims and scope
Many research topics in condensed matter research, materials science and the life sciences make use of crystallographic methods to study crystalline and non-crystalline matter with neutrons, X-rays and electrons. Articles published in Journal of Applied Crystallography focus on these methods and their use in identifying structural and diffusion-controlled phase transformations, structure-property relationships, structural changes of defects, interfaces and surfaces, etc. Developments of instrumentation and crystallographic apparatus, theory and interpretation, numerical analysis and other related subjects are also covered. The journal is the primary place where crystallographic computer program information is published.
Journal identifiers
Title: Journal of Applied Crystallography
Abbreviated title: J. Appl. Cryst.
ISSN: 1600-5767
CODEN: JACGAR
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S16005767
Citation and statistical information
Impact factor history
2020 JCR data
Impact factor: 3.304
Journal citation indicator: 1.02
5-year impact factor: 4.18
Total cites: 30593
Immediacy index: 2.561
Cited half-life: 12.1
Journal citation distribution
The citation distributions are for citations made in 2019 and 2018. For more information, see http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/11/062109.
Eigenfactor® metrics
Eigenfactor® score: 0.01399
Article influence® score: 1.323
Scopus metrics
CiteScore: 6.1
2020 journal statistics
Downloads: 909527
Number of submissions: 297
Acceptance rate: 68%
Average publication time: 5.7 months
Number of articles published: 188
Number of pages: 1631
Peer review
Peer review process
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Number of reviews requested: 1085
Number of reviews received: 531
Open access
Journal policy: the journal operates
a hybrid open-access policy; transformative arrangements are available
Open-access licence: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
Publishing costs
Submission fees: none
Page charges: none
Colour charges: none
Open-access option: the open-access fee is from USD 1600; click here for more details
Abstracting details
Journal of Applied Crystallography is covered by:
- Current Chemical Reactions Database
- Chemistry Citation Index
- Ceramic Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Cambridge Structural Database
- Current Contents: Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
- INSPEC
- ISI Chemistry Reaction Center
- Metals Abstracts/METADEX
- Materials Science Citation Index
- Research Alert
- 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
- 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.
