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Distribution of articles
In the last year, authors from 43 different countries published in the journal, the top five being the USA, Germany, France, Japan and China.
Aims and scope
Journal of Applied Crystallography publishes original research on advanced experimental and computational methodologies for investigating structural and dynamic properties of crystalline and amorphous materials, including solids, liquids, gases, single molecules, surfaces and interfaces. It welcomes studies employing photons, electrons, neutrons and other probes in materials science, chemistry, physics, engineering and life sciences. A section of the journal covers aspects of crystallographic education. Submissions on time-resolved techniques, laser-based applications, new instrumentation and emerging technologies are encouraged.
Further elements of the journal's profile include theory, data interpretation, numerical analysis and related fields. The journal is the established place where computer programs and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in structural research are published.
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: Journal of Applied Crystallography
Abbreviated title: J. Appl. Cryst.
ISSN: 1600-5767
CODEN: JACGAR
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S16005767
Publication frequency: bimonthly
Citation and statistical information
Impact factor history
2024 JCR data
Impact factor: 2.8
Journal citation indicator: 1.38
5-year impact factor: 5.5
Total cites: 31072
Immediacy index: 0.5
Cited half-life: 13.9 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: 0.0085
Article influence® score: 1.246
Scopus metrics
CiteScore: 8.5
2024 journal statistics
Downloads: 2129493
Number of submissions: 313
Acceptance rate: 63%
Average publication time: 5.5 months
Number of articles published: 197
Number of pages: 2050
Peer review
Peer review process
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Number of reviews requested: 1678
Number of reviews received: 526
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
Journal of Applied Crystallography is covered by:
- Cambridge Structural Database
- Ceramic Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Crossref
- Current Chemical Reactions Database
- Google Scholar
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
- INSPEC
- 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
Advertising information
Journal policies
- Editorial policies
- Article correction and retraction policy
- Ethics
- Author rights
- Copyright and licencing policy
- NIH public access policy
- Permissions requests
Contact us
- Editorial board contact details
- Editorial office contact details
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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.
