Fastest Review Journals in Crystallography

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Quick answerAmong 13 journals in Crystallography that publish their review dates, Crystallography Reports has the shortest review time: a median of 23 days from submission to acceptance.
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#JournalMedian daysSpread of review timesImpact factor*Indexed inAccess
1Crystallography Reports23 13–390.78SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
2Acta Crystallographica Section E Crystallographic Communications25 13–440.60ESCI, Scopus, JCR 2024Open access · APC ~US$500
3Structural Chemistry54 41–742.09SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
4Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry58 42–901.06SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
5Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications74 51–1081.13SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
6Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials90 63–1333.00SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
7Journal of Chemical Crystallography92 67–1240.61SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
8Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology96 70–1483.26SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
9IUCrJ100 67–1454.07SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Open access · APC ~US$2,200
10Journal of Applied Crystallography109 80–1543.11SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
11Phase Transitions114 72–1821.25SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
12Liquid Crystals135 95–1832.24SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription
13Crystal Research and Technology150 114–1961.73SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscription

The box shows the middle half of each journal's papers and the dark line its median. *Impact factor: 2-year citedness from OpenAlex open data, not the official Clarivate value.

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Source, method and date. Source: the received and accepted dates that publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. Method: for each journal, the days from received to accepted for its research articles of the last 24 months (at least 10 articles), then the median; journals whose publisher does not deposit these dates are not listed. Updated: 29 October 2026, refreshed about every 3 months. Only accepted papers carry these dates, so rejections are not counted, and a journal may count from a different date. ScholarsColab is not affiliated with these journals.

Frequently asked questions

Which Crystallography journals have the fastest review?

By median days from submission to acceptance: Crystallography Reports (23 days); Acta Crystallographica Section E Crystallographic Communications (25 days); Structural Chemistry (54 days). Source: dates deposited by the publishers in Crossref, updated 29 October 2026.

Is a fast review journal in Crystallography a good choice?

Review time is one factor. Check the journal’s scope, indexing and impact factor too, and confirm it is not predatory: a very short review with no real reviewer comments is a warning sign. Journal pages on ScholarsColab show all of these together.

Where do these review times come from?

From the received and accepted dates that publishers deposit in Crossref, the scholarly publication registry. ScholarsColab takes the median for each journal over its research articles of the last 24 months. Updated 29 October 2026.

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