Acta Crystallographica refers to a family of scientific journals

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

, with peer-reviewed articles about crystallography

Crystallography

Crystallography is the experimental science of the arrangement of atoms in solids. The word "crystallography" derives from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and grapho = write.Before the development of...

, published by the International Union of Crystallography

International Union of Crystallography

The International Union of Crystallography is a member of the International Council for Science and exists to serve the world community of crystallographers....

. The journal was established in 1948 as a single journal called Acta Crystallographica In 1967 the journal was separated into Section A and Section B, with Section C being added in 1983, and Section D being added in 1993. Section E was added in 2001, and Section F in 2005.

Acta Crystallographica has been noted for the high quality of the papers that it produces, as well as the large impact that its papers has on the field of crystallography.

Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography

Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science covers "structural chemistry and solid-state physics in which structure is the primary focus of the work reported."

Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications

Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications covers "novel and challenging crystal and molecular structures of interest in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, mineralogy, pharmacology, physics and materials science."

Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography

Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography covers "any aspect of structural biology, with a particular emphasis on the structures of biological macromolecules and the methods used to determine them."

Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online

Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online is an open-access journal intended to be "a simple and easily accessible publication mechanism for the growing number of inorganic, metal-organic and organic crystal structure determinations." Following the inclusion of Section C in the Crystallography Journals Online website, Section E was launched in 2001 as "the natural choice when single structures are to be reported, usually with less detailed discussion of the results (a Comment section is encouraged but not required) than would be appropriate for Section C.". The journal has been described as "a megajournal published by the International Union of Crystallography, which blurs the distinction between a database and a journal."

Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications is an electronic-only journal intended to be "a home for short communications on the crystallization and structure of biological macromolecules." The journal proved quickly popular, and in its first year "12 issues were published and included over 300 articles and 1100 pages."