about IUCrData
Distribution of articles
In the last year, authors from 32 different countries published in IUCrData, the top five being the USA, Germany, China, Slovenia and Morocco.
Aims and scope
IUCrData is a peer-reviewed open-access data journal from the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). This innovative publication aims to provide short descriptions of crystallographic datasets and datasets from related scientific disciplines, as well as facilitating access to the data. There are two primary article categories: Raw Data Letters and Data Reports. Raw Data Letters publish short descriptions of crystallographic raw data sets in the biological, chemical or materials science fields, allowing researchers to attract attention to particular features of the data that could be of interest to methods and software developers or may be relevant to the structural interpretation. Information for each dataset includes an imgCIF containing core metadata, a diffraction image, figures, and a description of the data and their processing. The journal adheres to the FAIR principles for which the correctness and completeness of the metadata are crucial. Data Reports describe crystal structures of inorganic, metal-organic or organic compounds. Information on each crystal structure includes the crystallographic data (CIF and structure factors), a data validation report, figures and a text representation of the data.
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: IUCrData
Abbreviated title: IUCrData
ISSN: 2414-3146
CODEN: IUCRBK
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S24143146
Publication frequency: monthly
Citation and statistical information
Scopus metrics
CiteScore: 0.3
2023 journal statistics
Downloads: 780067
Number of submissions: 141
Acceptance rate: 91%
Average publication time: 1.0 months
Number of articles published: 123
Number of pages: 375
Peer review
Peer review process
Peer review: yes
Review process: single-blind
Number of reviews requested: 330
Number of reviews received: 236
Open access
IUCrData 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 320; click here for more details
Abstracting details
IUCrData is covered by:
- Chemical Abstracts
- Cambridge Structural Database
- Crossref
- Google Scholar
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
- INSPEC
- PubMed Central
- Scopus
Features for authors
- Online manuscript submission, ease of submission
- 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
- 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.