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Distribution of articles
In the last year, authors from 41 different countries published in the journal, the top five being the USA, Germany, Japan, France and the UK.
Aims and scope
Synchrotron radiation research is rapidly expanding with many new sources of radiation being created globally. Synchrotron radiation plays a leading role in pure science and in emerging technologies. The Journal of Synchrotron Radiation has been open access since 2022 and provides comprehensive coverage of the entire field of synchrotron radiation and free-electron laser research including instrumentation, theory, computing and scientific applications in areas such as biology, nanoscience and materials science. Rapid publication ensures an up-to-date information resource for scientists and engineers in the field.
Publisher information
Publisher name: International Union of Crystallography (co-published with Wiley)
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 http://www.iucr.org/iucr/governance/ec
General information
Title: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Abbreviated title: J. Synchrotron Rad.
ISSN: 1600-5775
CODEN: JSYRES
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S16005775
Publication frequency: bimonthly
Citation and statistical information
Impact factor history
2021 JCR data
Impact factor: 2.557
Journal citation indicator: 0.74
5-year impact factor: 2.787
Total cites: 8352
Immediacy index: 0.807
Cited half-life: 8 years
Journal citation distribution
The citation distributions are for citations made in 2020 and 2019. For more information, see http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/11/062109.
Eigenfactor® metrics
Eigenfactor® score: 0.00788
Article influence® score: 0.834
Scopus metrics
CiteScore: 5
2021 journal statistics
Downloads: 629125
Number of submissions: 273
Acceptance rate: 76%
Average publication time: 5.3 months
Number of articles published: 215
Number of pages: 12002
Peer review
Peer review process
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Number of reviews requested: 885
Number of reviews received: 487
Open access
Journal policy: the journal is open access
Open-access licence: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0 International)
Date of change to open access: 1 January 2022
Availability of archive material: material published before 2022 is freely available
Publishing costs
Submission fees: none
Page charges: none
Colour charges: none
Open-access fees: the open-access fee is from USD 1980; click here for more details
Abstracting details
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation is covered by:
- Ceramic Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts
- Cambridge Structural Database
- Current Contents: Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
- Engineered Materials Abstracts
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
- INIS
- INSPEC
- Medline
- Metals Abstracts/METADEX
- Research Alert
- 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
- Forthcoming meetings listing
- Twitter feed
- Facebook page
- Sample issue available
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Journal policies
- Editorial 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.
