Acta Crystallographica
Acta Crystallographica is a family of scientific journals, with peer-reviewed articles about crystallography, published by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). The journal was established in 1948 as a single journal called Acta Crystallographica (ISSN 0365-110X)[1] In 1967 the journal was separated into Section A and Section B, with Section C being added in 1983 and Section D being added in 1993.[2] Section E was added in 2001[3] and Section F in 2005.[4] The IUCr moved to online-only publication for all its journals from 2014.[5] Acta Crystallographica has been noted for the high quality of the papers that it produces,[6] as well as the large impact that its papers have had on the field of crystallography.[7]
Journals
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography
| Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography | |
|---|---|
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Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Acta Crystallogr. Sect. A |
| Discipline | Crystallography |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Gernot Kostorz |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher |
Wiley-Blackwell |
Publication history | 1948-1967: Acta Crystallographica; 1967-1982: Acta Crystallographica. Section A: Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 2.076 | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
0108-7673 |
| CODEN | CACEQ |
| Links | |
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography covers "theoretical and fundamental aspects of the structure of matter".[8] The journal is abstracted and/or indexed in a variety of scholarly bibliographic databases, including: Biological Abstracts, Current Chemical Reactions Database, Chemistry Citation Index, Chemical Abstracts, INSPEC, ISI Chemistry Reaction Center, Medline, Science Citation Index, and Scopus. After Acta Crystallographica was split into sections in 1967, section A was named Acta Crystallographica. Section A: Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography, published in Denmark (ISSN 0567-7394). However, the journal's name and ISSN changed again in 1982 to its current state.[9] In 2000 Acta Crystallographica Section A began to provide electronic article submission and subscription access online[10]
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science
| Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science | |
|---|---|
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Acta Crystallogr. Sect. B-Struct. Sci. |
| Discipline | Crystallography |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Gernot Kostorz |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher |
Wiley-Blackwell |
Publication history | 1948-1967: Acta Crystallographica; 1968-1983: Acta Crystallographica. Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 2.286 | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
0108-7681 (print) 1600-5740 (web) Acta Crystallographica. Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry: 0567-7408 |
| CODEN | SBSDK |
| Links | |
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science covers "structural chemistry and solid-state physics in which structure is the primary focus of the work reported".[11]
Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications
| Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications | |
|---|---|
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Acta Crystallogr. Sect. C-Cryst. Struct. Commun. |
| Discipline | Crystallography |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Gernot Kostorz |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher |
Wiley-Blackwell |
Publication history | 1948-1967: Acta Crystallographica; in part, 1968-1983: Acta Crystallographica. Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry; also incorporates 1972-1982: Crystal Structure Communications |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 0.518 | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
0108-2701 (print) 1600-5759 (web) Crystal Structure Communications: 0302-1742 Acta Crystallographica. Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry: 0567-7408 |
| CODEN | ACSCEE |
| Links | |
Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications covers "novel and challenging crystal and molecular structures of interest in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, mineralogy, pharmacology, physics and materials science".[12]
Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography
| Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography | |
|---|---|
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D-Biol. Crystallogr. |
| Discipline | Crystallography, Biochemistry |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Gernot Kostorz |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher |
Wiley-Blackwell |
Publication history | 1993–present |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 7.232 | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
0907-4449 (print) 1399-0047 (web) |
| CODEN | ABCRE6 |
| Links | |
Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography covers "any aspect of structural biology, with a particular emphasis on the structures of biological macromolecules and the methods used to determine them".[13]
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
| Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online | |
|---|---|
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E.-Struct Rep. Online |
| Discipline | Crystallography |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Gernot Kostorz |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher |
Wiley-Blackwell |
Publication history | 2001-present |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 0.347 | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
1600-5368 |
| CODEN | ACSEBH |
| Links | |
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online is an open-access journal intended to be "a simple and easily accessible publication mechanism for the growing number of inorganic, metal-organic and organic crystal structure determinations".[14] Following the inclusion of Section C in the Crystallography Journals Online website, Section E was launched in 2001 as "the natural choice when single structures are to be reported, usually with less detailed discussion of the results (a Comment section is encouraged but not required) than would be appropriate for Section C".[3] Starting 2012, Acta Cryst. E is no longer included in the Scientific Citation Index.
Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications
| Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications | |
|---|---|
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Acta Crystallogr. F-Struct. Biol. Cryst. Commun. |
| Discipline | Crystallography |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Gernot Kostorz |
| Publication details | |
Publication history | 2005–present |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 0.552 | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
1744-3091 |
| CODEN | ACSFCL |
| Links | |
Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications is an electronic-only journal intended to be "a home for short communications on the crystallization and structure of biological macromolecules".[15] The journal proved quickly popular, and in its first year "12 issues were published and included over 300 articles and 1100 pages".[4]
References
- ↑ "Acta Crystallographica. Section A: Foundations of Crystallography." Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Accessed 14 Nov 2008.
- ↑ Cruickshank, D. W. J. (1998). "Aspects of the History of the International Union of Crystallography". Acta Crystallographica A54: 687–696. doi:10.1107/s0108767398011477.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ferguson, George (January 2001). "Editorial: New developments for Acta Crystallographica Section C" C57 (1). p. 1. doi:10.1107/S0108270100020424.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Einspahr, Howard; Guss, Mitchell (April 2006). "Editorial: Acta Crystallographica Section F: developments in the first year" F62 (4). p. 314. doi:10.1107/S1744309106010347.
- ↑ "IUCr Journals move to online-only publishing". International Union of Crystallography. 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ↑ McMahon, Brian (May–June 1996). "The Role of Journals in Maintaining Data Integrity: Checking of Crystal Structure Data in Acta Crystallographica". Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 101 (3): 347–355. doi:10.6028/jres.101.036.
- ↑ Cruickshank, D. W. J. (1998). "Aspects of the History of the International Union of Crystallography". Acta Crystallographica A54: 687–696. doi:10.1107/s0108767398011477.
The 11 September 1974 issue of the ISI's Current Contents carried an article on Acta Crystallographica by Eugene Garfield in his series of Journal Citation Studies. He wrote "Acta Crystallographica can justifiably take pride in its impact on science. The 45 [Acta] papers listed here stand high in a list of 6000 papers in science cited 100 times or more in 1961-1972". These 45 papers ranged over scattering factors, phase relations, statistics (including accuracy), thermal motion, extinction and some crystal structures.
- ↑ "Foundations of Crystallography Online". Archived from the original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
- ↑ "Acta Crystallographica. Section A: Foundations of Crystallography." Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Accessed 30 June 2011.
- ↑ Authier, André (2000). "Editorial: New developments for Acta Crystallographica Section A" A56 (1). p. e1. doi:10.1107/S0108767399015871.
- ↑ "Structural Science Online".
- ↑ "Crystal Structure Communications Online".
- ↑ "Biological Crystallography Online".
- ↑ "Structure Reports Online".
- ↑ "Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications Online".