International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) has published 151461 documents so far, receiving a total of 1709416 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.12% and 0.15% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) has a score of 11.29 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Dataset, Other, and Book Set a with the total document number of 150937, 503, 1, 19, and 1 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 99.65%, 0.33%, 0.00%, 0.01%, and 0.00% of the total documents published in International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) so far, respectively. International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) has been an active publisher from 1948-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) has the highest annual number of publications in 2011, with 7690 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 68059 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.79.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets.

The number of published documents by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are 150937, 503, 1, and 1 for Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.16%, 0.00%, 0.00%, and 0.28% of the whole published Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets of International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are 1707961, 1080, 0, and 13, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.16%, 0.01%, 0.00%, and 20.63% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are 350, 14, 0, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 588, 98, and 4, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are 52, 6, 0, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 48, 20, and 3, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are 11.316, 2.147, 0.000, and 13.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 1.016, 0.070, and 0.177, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are 7674, 96, 1, and 0, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets are 2011, 2012, 2011, and 2020, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets published in International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are 68018, 191, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets are 2010, 2012, 2020, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets published in International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are 13.57, 1.99, 0.00, and 0.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Datasets, and Book Sets are 2015, 2012, 2011, and 0, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), are 350, 114, and 59, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are 52, 23, and 14, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), are 23629, 9418, 4027, 1619, 496, 228, 120, 55, 34, and 17, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) based on the number of published documents are Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, Acta Crystallographica Section B, and Journal of Applied Crystallography. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 40534, 23435, 21937, 10708, and 9708, respectively. These numbers are equal to 26.762%, 15.473%, 14.484%, 7.070%, and 6.410% of the total documents published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are Journal of Applied Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica, Acta Crystallographica Section B, and Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 9708, 5760, 6059, 10708, and 23435, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.568%, 0.337%, 0.354%, 0.626%, and 1.371% of the total citations received by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica Section A, Acta Crystallographica, and Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 45.572, 40.302, 33.712, 31.995, and 30.312, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are x ray, crystal structure, hydrogen bonds, title compound, compound c, crystal structures, x ray diffraction, three dimensional, single crystal, and dihedral angle, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 13994, 12671, 7010, 6892, 4942, 3437, 3424, 2833, 2568, and 2495, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are crystal structure, x ray, crystal structures, structure determination, high resolution, single crystal, diffraction data, electron density, powder diffraction, and neutron diffraction, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 12671, 13994, 3437, 1260, 1606, 2568, 2000, 1208, 1758, and 1447, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are structure determination, molecular replacement, high resolution, experimental data, least squares, electron density, crystal structures, diffraction data, structure analysis, and neutron diffraction, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 92.697, 75.105, 61.636, 55.000, 43.689, 43.206, 38.812, 36.717, 34.745, and 34.602, respectively.