Annex
SUMMARY OF THE IUCR'S JOURNAL PUBLISHING
ACTIVITIES
Administrative Office: The Executive Secretary,
IUCr, 2 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU
Publishing Office: The Managing Editor,
IUCr, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU
Editorial and administrative staff (full-time
equivalent): 16
Research and Development staff: 4
Turnover from sales of journals and books in
2002: CHF 4.1 M (the IUCr, as an international scientific union,
is domiciled in Geneva and presents its accounts in Swiss francs)
The journals of the International Union of Crystallography
are produced by the IUCr in Chester and published by Blackwell
Munksgaard. The print editions of the journals are distributed
by Blackwell Publishing in Oxford, while electronic editions of
all IUCr journals are available via Crystallography Journals Online
(http://journals.iucr.org).
The IUCr has published journals since 1948.
Seven titles are currently published:
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations
of Crystallography
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural
Science
Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure
Communications
Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological
Crystallography
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure
Reports Online
Journal of Applied Crystallography
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
The journals provide HTML and PDF for each current
article. Other features include:
complete text of all articles published
from 1948 onwards
full text, article title, keyword
and author searching; links to World Directory of Crystallographers
entries
immediate access to supplementary
data
citation links to IUCr journals;
ChemPort, CrossRef and Medline linking
links to Cambridge Structural Database,
Protein Data Bank and Nucleic Acid Database
indexed by major bibliographic databases
and Google
3D views of all structures for which
structural data are held
e-mail alerting service
The numbers of pages and papers published in
the last three years are given in Table 1. The number of pages
published in the journals has grown in recent years from approximately
7000 in 1995 to over 10,000 pages in 2003.
Table 1
PUBLICATION DETAILS 2001-03
|
| 2001
| 2002 |
2003 |
| Pages
| Papers | Pages
| Papers | Pages
| Papers |
|
Acta Crystallographica Section A | 803
| 103 | 630
| 102 | 628
| 83 |
Acta Crystallographica Section B | 877
| 110 | 1,088
| 132 | 821
| 87 |
Acta Crystallographica Section C | 1,504
| 545 | 1,570
| 535 | 1,482
| 482 |
Acta Crystallographica Section D | 1,980
| 390 | 2,243
| 457 | 2,385
| 462 |
Acta Crystallographica Section E | 1,998
| 800 | 2,374
| 922 | 3,419
| 1,305 |
Journal of Applied Crystallography | 798
| 140 | 760
| 128 | 1,505
| 282 |
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation | 1,255
| 376 | 413
| 93 | 475
| 108 |
Totals | 9,215
| 2,464 | 9,078
| 2,369 | 10,715
| 2,809 |
|
QUALITY OF
THE JOURNALS
The journals are produced to the highest quality standards.
The IUCr has an International Editorial Board of approximately
120 Editors, based in academic institutions worldwide. The Editor-in-Chief
is Professor John Helliwell of the University of Manchester.
All articles undergo a rigorous peer review process, managed
by the academic editors. The journals are covered by the major
abstracting and indexing services, including the Science Citation
Index.
The journals have taken a leading role in structural science
to ensure that related data sets are checked and published. Over
1800 data sets associated with journal articles were published
in 2003, and are freely available from Crystallography Journals
Online. In fact, the IUCr has developed a structural checking
service, checkCIF, for this purpose, which is increasingly used
by other journal publishers to check their structural data.
The impact factors for the journals for the period 1996-2002
are shown in Table 2.
Table 2
JOURNAL CITATION REPORT 1996-2002IUCR JOURNALS*

* Acta Crystallographica Section E, launched in 2001, will receive
its first impact factor during 2004.
The journals are the leading journals in their field and
appear consistently at the top of the ISI citation rankings for
crystallography. This is illustrated in Table 3, which shows the
ISI citation rankings for crystallography for 2001 and 2002.
Table 3
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, SORTED BY IMPACT FACTOR
|
Ranking | 2001
| 2002 |
|
1 | Journal of Applied Crystallography
| 2.58 | J MOL GRAPH MODEL |
2.29 |
2 | Acta Crystallographica Section D
| 2.12 | CRYST GROWTH DES |
2.19 |
3 | LIQ CRYST | 1.97
| Acta Crystallographica Section B | 2.03
|
4 | Acta Crystallographica Section B
| 1.96 | Journal of Applied Crystallography
| 1.87 |
5 | Acta Crystallographica Section A
| 1.75 | Acta Crystallographica Section D
| 1.76 |
6 | Z KRISTALLOGR | 1.37
| LIQ CRYST | 1.6 |
7 | J CRYST GROWTH | 1.28
| J CRYST GROWTH | 1.53 |
8 | J MOL GRAPH MODEL | 1.21
| Z KRISTALLOGR | 1.43 |
9 | POLYHEDRON | 1.2
| Acta Crystallographica Section A | 1.42
|
10 | J INCL PHENOM MACRO |
1.15 | POLYHEDRON | 1.41
|
11 | PHASE TRANSIT | 0.67
| J INCL PHENOM MACRO | 0.99
|
12 | PROG CRYST GROWTH |
0.62 | PROG CRYST GROWTH CH |
0.7 |
13 | Acta Crystallographica Section C
| 0.57 | PHASE TRANSIT | 0.7
|
14 | CRYST RES TECHNOL |
0.54 | Acta Crystallographica Section C
| 0.66 |
15 | MOL CRYST LIQ CRYST |
0.46 | CRYSTALLOGR REP | 0.58
|
16 | CRYSTALLOGR REP | 0.41
| CRYST RES TECHNOL | 0.51 |
17 | J CHEM CRYSTALLOGR |
0.31 | MOL CRYST LIQ CRYST |
0.46 |
18 | Z KRIST-NEW CRYST ST |
0.28 | Z KRIST-NEW CRYST ST |
0.38 |
19 | CHIN J STRUCT CHEM |
0.18 | J CHEM CRYSTALLOGR | 0.36
|
20 | |
| CHIN J STRUCT CHEM | 0.32 |
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Finally, the journals are of wide interest to researchers
in a number of scientific fields including chemistry, physics,
materials science and structural biology.
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