IUCrJ
Last updated ISSN 2052-2525
IUCrJ is published by International Union of Crystallography in materials science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,200.
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What it publishes
Recent work in IUCrJ concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Enzyme Structure and Function
- Crystallography and molecular interactions
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
- X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
- Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
- X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
Key facts
| Publisher | International Union of Crystallography |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2052-2525 |
| Subject area | Materials Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,200 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 1,213 |
| Publishing since | 1978 |
| Journal website | journals.iucr.org/m/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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