''Acta Crystallographica'' is a series of peer-reviewed scientific journals, with articles centred on crystallography, published by the

International Union of Crystallography The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is an organisation devoted to the international promotion and coordination of the science of crystallography. The IUCr is a member of the International Council for Science (ICSU). Objectives T ...

(IUCr). Originally established in 1948 as a single journal called ''Acta Crystallographica'', there are now six independent ''Acta Crystallographica'' titles: *'' Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances'' *'' Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials'' *'' Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry'' *'' Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology'' *'' Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications'' *'' Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications'' ''Acta Crystallographica'' has been noted for the high quality of the papers that it produces, as well as the large impact that its papers have had on the field of crystallography. The current six journals form part of the journal portfolio of the IUCr, which is completed by the ''

Journal of Applied Crystallography The ''Journal of Applied Crystallography'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Union of Crystallography. It was established in 1968 and covers the application of crystallography and cry ...

'', the '' Journal of Synchrotron Radiation'', the

open-access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

'' IUCrJ'' and the open-access

data publication Data publishing (also data publication) is the act of releasing research data in published form for use by others. It is a practice consisting in preparing certain data or data set(s) for public use thus to make them available to everyone to use a ...

'' IUCr Data''.

History

''Acta Crystallographica'' was established in conjunction with the foundation of the

in 1948. Both were established to maintain an international forum for crystallography after the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

had led to a loss of international subscription to, and the eventual nine-year closure of, the main pre-war crystallography journal, '' Zeitschrift für Kristallographie''. The founding editor of ''Acta Crystallographica'' was P. P. Ewald, who wrote in the preface to the first issue A steady increase in the number of submitted papers led to the journal being split into '' Section A'', covering fundamental and theoretical studies, and ''

Section B Section B are a group of football supporters who follow Airdrieonians F.C., and before the current club's formation in 2002, followed the original Airdrieonians. The group, formed in 1977, have been well known throughout Scottish football for ...

'', dedicated to reports of structures, in 1968, together with a new journal, the ''

''. In 1983, '' Section C'', devoted to the crystal structures of small molecules, was added, with ''Section B'' now focusing on biological, chemical, mineralogical and metallurgical crystallography. The rapid expansion in biological crystallography led to the launch of '' Section D'' in 1993. The journals launched online versions in 1999, and in 2000 the journals began to provide electronic article submission and subscription access online. This was followed by the launch of an online-only journal, '' Section E'', for brief reports of new small-molecule structures, in 2001; this journal became fully open access in 2008. A second online-only journal, '' Section F'', dedicated to short reports of macromolecular structures and reports on their crystallization, followed in 2005. The IUCr moved to online-only publication for all its journals from 2014.

Journals

''Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances''

''Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances'' is the foundation on which the whole suite of IUCr crystallography journals are built, containing papers describing fundamental developments in crystallographic theory and practice. When ''Acta Crystallographica'' was split into two sections in 1967, Section A was named ''Acta Crystallographica Section A: Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography''. The journal's name changed again in 1982 to ''Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography.'' The journal adopted its current title in 2013.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

''Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials''

''Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials'' publishes scientific articles on structural science. According to the journal: "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." It was formed in 1968 when the journal ''Acta Crystallographica'' was split into two parts and has been published for the

under the following titles: *''Acta Crystallographica. Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry'' (Acta Crystallogr. B Struct. Cryst. Cryst. Chem., print ) from its formation until the end of 1982. It was published in Denmark by Munksgaard and accepted articles in English, French, and German. *On the launch of ''Acta Crystallographica Section C'' in 1983, the title of Section B changed to ''Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science'' (Acta Crystallogr. B Struct. Sci., print ), and the publisher was changed to

Wiley-Blackwell Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...

in 2004 after

Wiley Wiley may refer to: Locations * Wiley, Colorado, a U.S. town * Wiley, Pleasants County, West Virginia, U.S. * Wiley-Kaserne, a district of the city of Neu-Ulm, Germany People * Wiley (musician), British grime MC, rapper, and producer * Wiley Mil ...

had acquired Munksgaard. *From the start of 2013, the title was changed to the present ''Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials'' (Acta Crystallogr. B Struct. Sci. Cryst. Eng. Mater., print ) and the journal now only publishes in English.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

''Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry''

''Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry'' is a journal for the rapid publication of research with structural content relating to the chemical sciences.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

''Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology''

''Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology'' publishes articles covering all areas of structural biology, including biomolecular structures determined by NMR and cryo-EM as well as crystallography, and the methods used to obtain them. The journal was launched in 1993 as ''Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography'' with Jenny Glusker as the founding Editor. In 2003,

Ted Baker Ted Baker is a British high-street clothing retail company known for suits, shirts, and dresses. It was founded in 1988 in Glasgow, Scotland. The company is owned by Authentic Brands Group, after its £211 million acquisition in October 2022. T ...

and Zbigniew Dauter took over the editorship of the journal. The current Editors are Elspeth Garman, Randy J. Read and Charles S. Bond. In 2016, the title was changed to ''Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology'' to reflect the expanded scope of the journal.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

''Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications''

''Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications'' is an open-access structural communications journal. It reports crystal structure determinations of inorganic, metal-organic and organic compounds. Since 2012, ''Acta Crystallogr. E'' has not been included in the Science Citation Index.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

''Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications''

''Acta Crystallographica Section F'' is a rapid structural biology communications journal. It publishes short papers on biological structures and any aspects of structural biology.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

References

{{Reflist

External links

IUCr journals official site
Chemistry journals Publications established in 1948 English-language journals Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Monthly journals Bimonthly journals Online-only journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies