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Distribution of articles
In the last year, authors from 44 different countries published in the journal, the top five being the USA, Germany, China, France and Japan.
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 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.
Journal identifiers
Title: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Abbreviated title: J. Synchrotron Rad.
ISSN: 1600-5775
CODEN: JSYRES
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S16005775
Citation and statistical information
Impact factor history
2017 JCR data
Impact factor: 3.232
5-year impact factor: 3.02
Total cites: 6027
Immediacy index: 1.02
Cited half-life: 7.1
Journal citation distribution
The citation distributions are for citations made in 2018 and 2017. For more information, see http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/11/062109.
Eigenfactor® metrics
Eigenfactor® score: 0.0124
Article influence® score: 1.078
Scopus metrics
CiteScore: 3.12
2018 journal statistics
Downloads: 593218
Number of submissions: 334
Rejection and withdrawal rate: 20%
Average publication time: 5.6 months
Number of articles published: 222
Number of pages: 1894
Peer review
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Open access
Journal policy: the journal operates
a hybrid open-access policy
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 USD 1400; 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
- Tool available for preparing enhanced figures
- 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
- Article correction and retraction policy
- Ethics
- Author rights
- Copyright policy
- NIH public access policy
- Permissions requests
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