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Distribution of articles
In the last year, authors from 24 different countries published in the journal, the top five being the USA, China, the UK, South Korea and Germany.
Aims and scope
IUCrJ is a fully open-access peer-reviewed journal from the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).
The journal publishes high-profile articles on all aspects of the sciences and technologies supported by the IUCr via its commissions, including emerging fields where structural results underpin the science reported in the article. Our aim is to make IUCrJ the natural home for high-quality structural science results. Chemists, biologists, physicists and material scientists are actively encouraged to report their structural studies in IUCrJ.
IUCrJ covers seven broad areas:
- biology and medicine
- chemistry and crystal engineering
- cryoEM
- electron crystallography
- materials and computation
- neutron and synchrotron science and technology
- physics and free electron laser science and technology
The journal was launched in 2014 to commemorate the International Year of Crystallography.
Publisher information
Publisher name: International Union of Crystallography
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: IUCrJ
Abbreviated title: IUCrJ
ISSN: 2052-2525
CODEN: IUCRAJ
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S20522525
Publication frequency: bimonthly
Citation and statistical information
Impact factor history
2022 JCR data
Impact factor: 3.9
Journal citation indicator: 1.27
5-year impact factor: 4.4
Total cites: 2941
Immediacy index: 1.2
Cited half-life: 4.2 years
Journal citation distribution
The citation distributions are for citations made in 2021 and 2020. For more information, see https://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/11/062109.
Eigenfactor® metrics
Eigenfactor® score: 0.00861
Article influence® score: 2.114
Scopus metrics
CiteScore: 7.8
2023 journal statistics
Downloads: 850779
Number of submissions: 110
Acceptance rate: 69%
Average publication time: 4.9 months
Number of articles published: 80
Number of pages: 771
Peer review
Peer review process
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Number of reviews requested: 348
Number of reviews received: 152
Open access
Journal policy: the journal is open access
Open-access licence: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0 International)
Publishing costs
Submission fees: none
Page charges: none
Colour charges: none
Open-access fees: the open-access fee is USD 2420; click here for more details
Abstracting details
IUCrJ is covered by:
- Ceramic Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Cambridge Structural Database
- Medline
- Metals Abstracts/METADEX
- Nucleic Acid Database
- Protein Data Bank
- PubMed Central
- Science Citation Index
- SCISEARCH
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
- 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
- Contact us by web
- See us at meetings
- How to find our offices
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.
