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Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 2053-2733Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,430 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (all) | 313 / 475 | 34th | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 297 / 446 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 140 / 194 | 28th | Q3 |
| Inorganic Chemistry | 63 / 86 | 27th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 343 / 448 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Structural Biology | 41 / 51 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 1998), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.4.
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances is Q3 in Materials Science (all) (rank 313 of 475), Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 297 of 446) and Q3 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 140 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.449, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,430 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2053-2733.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #409 of 438 Scopus journals in Materials Science (all).
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,922. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 54 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Poland (19.8%), Germany (13.9%) and United States (11.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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