journal menuabout Acta Crystallographica Section B
Distribution of articles
In the last year, authors from 28 different countries published in the journal, the top five being Russia, Poland, Germany, France and India.
Aims and scope
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials publishes scientific articles related to the structural science of compounds and materials in the widest sense. Knowledge of the arrangements of atoms, including their temporal variations and dependencies on temperature and pressure, is often the key to understanding physical and chemical phenomena and is crucial for the design of new materials and supramolecular devices. Acta Crystallographica B is the forum for the publication of such contributions. The journal also welcomes contributions focusing on all aspects of crystal growth related to structural science, crystal engineering and materials. Scientific developments based on experimental studies as well as those based on theoretical approaches, including crystal-structure prediction, structure-property relations and the use of databases of crystal structures, are published.
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: Acta Crystallographica Section B
Subtitle: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials
Abbreviated title: Acta Cryst. B
ISSN: 2052-5206
CODEN: ACSBDA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S20525206
Publication frequency: bimonthly
Citation and statistical information
Impact factor history
2022 JCR data
Impact factor: 1.9
Journal citation indicator: 0.70
5-year impact factor: 2.1
Total cites: 11932
Immediacy index: 0.6
Cited half-life: 25.9 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: 0.00223
Article influence® score: 0.486
Scopus metrics
CiteScore: 4.4
2023 journal statistics
Downloads: 394874
Number of submissions: 100
Acceptance rate: 58%
Average publication time: 4.6 months
Number of articles published: 63
Number of pages: 546
Peer review
Peer review process
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Number of reviews requested: 364
Number of reviews received: 138
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 1890; click here for more details
Abstracting details
Acta Crystallographica Section B is covered by:
- Biological Abstracts
- 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
- Medline
- Metals Abstracts/METADEX
- Materials Science Citation Index
- Nucleic Acid Database
- Protein Data Bank
- 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
- Editorial policies
- Article correction and retraction policy
- Ethics
- Author rights
- Copyright and licencing policy
- NIH public access policy
- Permissions requests
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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.
