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

2053-2733

Published by: Wiley

https://journals.iucr.org/a/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Materials Science 552 349 608 9
Chemistry 674 650 1195 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1327
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1929
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 41
SCIMAGO H-index: 92
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.592
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Acta Crystallographica?

Acta Crystallographica primarily focuses on research topics in Crystallography, Crystal structure, Crystal, Inorganic chemistry and Molecule. Crystallography research featured in Acta Crystallographica incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Structure (category theory), X-ray and Diffraction. The journal focuses on Crystal structure as well as the interrelated topic of Wurtzite crystal structure.

  • Crystallography (40.97%)
  • Crystal structure (25.41%)
  • Crystal (10.13%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Line profiles of neutron powder-diffraction peaks for structure refinement (2623 citations)
  • Significance tests on the crystallographic R factor (1722 citations)
  • The packing of α-helices: simple coiled-coils (1394 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Acta Crystallographica:

The journal articles focus largely on the fields of Crystallography, Crystal structure, Crystal, Inorganic chemistry and Molecule. Structure (category theory) and Diffraction are some topics wherein Crystallography research discussed in the most cited articles has an impact. The published articles focus on Crystal structure research which is adjacent to topics in Nuclear chemistry.

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Acta Crystallographica (based on the number of publications) are:

  • W. H. Zachariasen (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gervais Chapuis (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David H. Templeton (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Herbert A. Hauptman (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jerry Donohue (22 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Acta Crystallographica (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Liège (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Max Planck Society (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Göttingen (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Uppsala University (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Franche Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique Sciences et Technologies (2 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2020 edition, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • pinkIndexer – a universal indexer for pink-beam X-ray and electron diffraction snapshots

    Yaroslav Gevorkov;Anton Barty;Wolfgang Brehm;Thomas A White

    (2020)
    39 Citations
  • A cloud platform for atomic pair distribution function analysis: PDFitc

    Long Yang;Elizabeth A. Culbertson;Nancy K. Thomas;Hung T. Vuong

    (2021)
    28 Citations
  • Introducing a unified magnetic space-group symbol.

    (2022)
    25 Citations
  • Structure-mining: screening structure models by automated fitting to the atomic pair distribution function over large numbers of models.

    Long Yang;Pavol Juhás;Maxwell W. Terban;Matthew G. Tucker

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Can 3D electron diffraction provide accurate atomic structures of metal–organic frameworks?

    Meng Ge;Zhehao Huang;Xiaodong Zou

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Dynamic tilting in perovskites

    (2023)
    13 Citations
  • A flexible and standalone forward simulation model for laboratory X-ray diffraction contrast tomography

    H. Fang;D. Juul Jensen;Y. Zhang

    (2020)
    13 Citations

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