Crystals
ISSN 2073-4352 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland · active 2010–2026
Metrics
“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.
Indexing & access
Access status: gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
Scope
Frequently asked
Is Crystals a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag Crystals. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.
Is Crystals indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, Crystals appears in: DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.
What is Crystals's impact?
Papers in Crystals are cited about 3.1 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 100. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.
Is Crystals open access?
Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.
Similar venues
- npj Computational MaterialsQ1 · Nature Portfolio
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- Journal of Molecular StructureQ2 · Elsevier BV
- Crystal Growth & DesignQ2 · American Chemical Society
- IUCrJQ1 · International Union of Crystallography
- Journal of Molecular ModelingQ2 · Springer Science+Business Media