IUCrJ

Papers
(The median citation count of IUCrJ is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enhancing hydrogen positions in X-ray structures of transition metal hydride complexes with dynamic quantum crystallography54
A new approach for serial electron diffraction data collection50
Characterizing self-assembled structures made with magnetic Janus nanoparticles45
AutoLEI : A step towards automatic 3D ED data processing40
AI-enhanced X-ray diffraction analysis: towards real-time mineral phase identification and quantification38
Community recommendations on cryoEM data archiving and validation38
CSD Communications of the Cambridge Structural Database32
Towards improved accuracy of Hirshfeld atom refinement with an alternative electron density partition32
Nanostructure and dynamics of N-truncated copper amyloid-β peptides from advanced X-ray absorption fine structure29
Many locks to one key: N-acetylneuraminic acid binding to proteins25
In situ serial crystallography facilitates 96-well plate structural analysis at low symmetry25
3D-printed sheet jet for stable megahertz liquid sample delivery at X-ray free-electron lasers23
Exploring serial crystallography for drug discovery22
Accurate crystal structure of ice VI from X-ray diffraction with Hirshfeld atom refinement22
Micro-structured polymer fixed targets for serial crystallography at synchrotrons and XFELs22
JINXED: just in time crystallization for easy structure determination of biological macromolecules22
Unravelling the components of diffuse scattering using deep learning21
Peptide bonds revisited21
Evaluating the Volta phase plate for improved tomogram alignment in cryo-electron tomography21
Waterless structures in the Protein Data Bank21
The effect of polymorphism on polymer properties: crystal structure, stability and polymerization of the short-chain bio-based nylon 52 monomer 1,5-pentanediamine oxalate20
Ambiguous structure determination from powder data: four different structural models of 4,11-difluoroquinacridone with similar X-ray powder patterns, fit to the PDF, SSNMR and DFT-D20
A new statistical metric for robust target detection in cryo-EM using 2D template matching20
Development of a scalar-based geometric parameterization approach for the crystal structure landscape of dithienylethene-based crystalline solids19
Structure–property relations of a unique and systematic dataset of 19 isostructural multicomponent apremilast forms18
Conformation–aggregation interplay in the simplest aliphatic ethers probed under high pressure18
FLEXR-MSA: electron-density map comparisons of sequence-diverse structures17
Instrumentation and methods for efficient time-resolved X-ray crystallography of biomolecular systems with sub-10 ms time resolution17
Unity gives strength: combining Bertaut's and Belov's concepts and the formalism of aperiodic crystals to solve magnetic structures of unprecedented complexity15
Data reduction in protein serial crystallography15
The structure of Chlamydomonas LOV1 as revealed by time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography15
Structure of the bacteriophage PhiKZ non-virion RNA polymerase bound to a p119L open promoter analogue15
Towards a new level of quantitative treatment of 3D electron diffraction data – in-pattern optical distortions15
Design and implementation of suspended drop crystallization15
Using high pressure to understand the behavior of organic molecular crystals14
Towards the extraction of the crystal cell parameters from pair distribution function profiles14
The dominant component of strong π-hole interactions: electrostatic attraction versus charge transfer14
A step towards 6D WAXD tensor tomography14
A predicted model-aided reconstruction algorithm for X-ray free-electron laser single-particle imaging14
Photoinduced bidirectional mesophase transition in vesicles containing azobenzene amphiphiles14
Bone mineral properties and 3D orientation of human lamellar bone around cement lines and the Haversian system14
Structural dissection of two redox proteins from the shipworm symbiont Teredinibacter turnerae13
Accurate temperature dependence of structure factors of L-alanine and taurine for quantum crystallography13
Further adventures of the perovskite family13
Stereochemical aspects of the nucleophilic attack in different classes of L -asparaginases12
Going beyond ensemble average angular cross-correlation analysis12
Structure–property relationship of a complex photoluminescent arylacetylide-gold(I) compound. I: a pressure-induced phase transformation caught in the act12
Exploring fibers with X-ray eyes12
Structural characterization of TIR-domain signalosomes through a combination of structural biology approaches12
Low-energy tetrahedral networks for carbon and silicon from (2+1)-regular bipartite-like graphs12
A novel X-ray diffraction approach to assess the crystallinity of regenerated cellulose fibers12
Additive-driven microwave crystallization of tyramine polymorphs and salts: a quantum crystallography perspective12
Complementarity of neutron, XFEL and synchrotron crystallography for defining the structures of metalloenzymes at room temperature12
Advancing dynamic quantum crystallography: enhanced models for accurate structures and thermodynamic properties11
Real-space texture and pole-figure analysis using the 3D pair distribution function on a platinum thin film11
Discovery of an energy-dependent many-body process in the Kβ spectrum of manganese metal using extended-range high-energy-resolution fluorescence detection with advanced structural insights fro11
Using multiple computer-predicted structures as molecular replacement models: application to the antiviral mini-protein LCB211
Linking solid-state phenomena via energy differences in `archetype crystal structures'11
Using deep-learning predictions reveals a large number of register errors in PDB depositions11
Crystal structure of a bacterial photoactivated adenylate cyclase determined by serial femtosecond and serial synchrotron crystallography11
3D electron diffraction goes multipolar10
Cocrystals of a coumarin derivative: an efficient approach towards anti-leishmanial cocrystals against MIL-resistant Leishmania tropica10
Understanding structural distortions in hybrid layered perovskites with the n = 1 Ruddlesden–Popper structure10
Metal-free enantiomorphic perovskite [dabcoH2]2+[H3O]+Br 3 and its one-dimensional polar polymorph10
Hirshfeld atom refinement and dynamical refinement of hexagonal ice structure from electron diffraction data10
Sometimes Mother Nature only whispers10
IUCrJ in 2025 – welcomes, farewells and special issues9
Commentary on `Facing the phase problem' by Wayne Hendrickson9
STEM SerialED: achieving high-resolution data for ab initio structure determination of beam-sensitive nanocrystalline materials9
Managing negative linear compressibility and thermal expansion through steric hindrance: a case study of 1,2-bis(4′-pyridyl)ethane cocrystals9
True molecular conformation and structure determination by three-dimensional electron diffraction of PAH by-products potentially useful for electronic applications9
Dynamic X-ray speckle-tracking imaging with high-accuracy phase retrieval based on deep learning9
High-throughput automated molecular replacement for small-molecule MicroED data9
SpeckleNN: a unified embedding for real-time speckle pattern classification in X-ray single-particle imaging with limited labeled examples9
The nature of halogen bonding: insights from interacting quantum atoms and source function studies9
Fourth-generation light sources8
Orientational ordering and assembly of silica–nickel Janus particles in a magnetic field8
Combining experiment and prediction to explore surface chemistry and dissolution8
Benchmarking predictive methods for small-angle X-ray scattering from atomic coordinates of proteins using maximum likelihood consensus data8
The curious case of proton migration under pressure in the malonic acid and 4,4′-bipyridine cocrystal8
Structural insights into the antiviral efficacy of AG7404 against human rhinovirus 3C proteases8
Accounting for electron-beam-induced warping of molecular nanocrystals in MicroED structure determination8
Functional materials design: octahedral tilts in hybrid n = 1 Ruddlesden–Popper phases8
Modelling fine-sliced three dimensional electron diffraction data with dynamical Bloch-wave simulations8
Obtaining single crystals containing cationic porphyrins from aqueous solutions: a systematic approach including nano-crystallization, organic modifiers and gel crystallization8
Magellon – an extensible platform for cryo-EM data visualization, management and processing8
Low-density preference of the ambient and high-pressure polymorphs of DL-menthol8
Making ripples in the comparison of calculated and experimental maps for real-space refinement and assessment by analytic modelling of local resolution8
Structural transformations and stability of benzo[a]pyrene under high pressure8
Towards automating single-particle cryo-EM data acquisition8
3D atomic structure determination with ultrashort-pulse MeV electron diffraction7
Persistence of atoms in molecules: there is room beyond electron densities7
Novel starting points for fragment-based drug design against human heat-shock protein 90 identified using crystallographic fragment screening7
Time-resolved serial synchrotron and serial femtosecond crystallography of heme proteins using photocaged nitric oxide7
Bone mineral properties and 3D orientation of human lamellar bone around cement lines and the Haversian system. Corrigendum7
Anisotropic diffraction of materials with fibre symmetry: application to chitin cuticle7
Analysis of COF-300 synthesis: probing degradation processes and 3D electron diffraction structure7
Water: new aspect of hydrogen bonding in the solid state7
Automated microbatch-under-oil phase diagrams to rationalize serial crystallography sample preparation7
A systematic study of the interplay between guest molecule structure and intermolecular interactions in crystalline sponges7
Semiconductive 2D arrays of pancake-bonded oligomers of partially charged TCNQ radicals7
Classification of perovskite structural types with dynamical octahedral tilting7
Femtosecond X-rays illuminate disordered states during the early stages of crystallization7
From formulation to structure: 3D electron diffraction for the structure solution of a new indomethacin polymorph from an amorphous solid dispersion7
Reverse-engineering method for XPCS studies of non-equilibrium dynamics7
High-resolution synchrotron X-ray study of icosahedrite, an icosahedral AlCuFe quasicrystal from the Khatyrka meteorite7
First high-resolution synchrotron X-ray study of icosahedrite, a natural quasicrystal from the Khatyrka meteorite7
Crystal structure of diacetylene unveiled by X-ray and neutron diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and periodic DFT7
Damage before destruction? X-ray-induced changes in single-pulse serial femtosecond crystallography7
Cryo-EM at ACA 20226
Electrostatic landscapes in crystal engineering: a new perspective on synthons6
Focus on Quantum Crystallography6
Fixed-target pump–probe SFX: eliminating the scourge of light contamination6
Round robin on structure analysis from 3D electron diffraction data6
Scanning WAXS microscopy of regenerated cellulose fibers at mesoscopic resolution6
In some cases more complicated approaches to refinement of macromolecular structures are not necessary6
The Haemophilus influenzae HipBA toxin–antitoxin system adopts an unusual three-component regulatory mechanism6
Simulating diffraction photographs based on molecular dynamics trajectories of a protein crystal: a new option to examine structure-solving strategies in protein crystallography6
Bridging length scales in hard materials with ultra-small angle X-ray scattering – a critical review6
The structure of AcrIC9 revealing the putative inhibitory mechanism of AcrIC9 against the type IC CRISPR–Cas system6
Multi-crystal native-SAD phasing at 5 keV with a helium environment6
Structural and biochemical insights into PsEst3, a new GHSR-type esterase obtained from Paenibacillus sp. R46
Dynamic correlations and possible diffusion pathway in the superionic conductor Cu2−x Se6
Small but mighty: the power of microcrystals in structural biology5
Symmetry of antiferroelectric crystals crystallized in polar point groups5
MRC2020: improvements to Ximdisp and the MRC image-processing programs5
Benchmarking quantum chemical methods with X-ray structures via structure-specific restraints5
Leucopterin, the white pigment in butterfly wings: structural analysis by PDF fit, FIDEL fit, Rietveld refinement, solid-state NMR and DFT-D5
Structural analysis of nanocrystals by pair distribution function combining electron diffraction with crystal tilting5
Thinner than a knife's edge: 3D-printed liquid sheet jet technology for solution phase XFEL experiments5
Peptide bonds strike back5
AXIS: a Lab-in-the-Loop machine learning approach for automated detection of macromolecular crystals5
Revisiting the co-crystal structure of a DNA glycosylase with photocaged substrate: a suitable time-resolved crystallography target?5
Crystal engineering of ionic cocrystals comprising Na/K salts of hesperetin with hesperetin molecules and solubility modulation5
Inhibition ofArenaviridaenucleoprotein exonuclease by bisphosphonate5
Comparative structural analyses of the NHL domains from the human E3 ligase TRIM–NHL family5
Radiation damage and the case for unpatterned fixed targets5
Refining perovskite structures to pair distribution function data using collective Glazer modes as a basis5
Facing the phase problem5
Time-series analysis of rhenium(I) organometallic covalent binding to a model protein for drug development5
A deep learning solution for crystallographic structure determination5
Whither structural biologists?5
Models of thermal motion in small-molecule crystallography4
The nature of π-hole interactions between iodide anions and quinoid rings in the crystalline state4
Formation of ibrutinib solvates: so similar, yet so different4
A new era is emerging at scientific user facilities4
Going around the Kok cycle of the water oxidation reaction with femtosecond X-ray crystallography4
On interrogating electron microscopy images to discover proteins in the cell4
Highlighting radical sites through polarized neutron scattering from AFP-modulated polarized protons4
Broadband high-resolution X-ray ptychography system spanning tender to hard X-ray regimes4
Binding structures of SERF1a with NT17-polyQ peptides of huntingtin exon 1 revealed by SEC-SWAXS, NMR and molecular simulation4
Natural strategies for creating non-equilibrium morphology with self-repairing capability towards rapid growth of excellent YBa2Cu3O7−δ crystals4
3D ED: Accessible, robust and accurate4
Protein-to-structure pipeline for ambient-temperature in situ crystallography at VMXi4
High-throughput calculation screening for new silicon allotropes with monoclinic symmetry4
Everything you always wanted to know about the Debye–Waller factor but were afraid to ask4
Probing laser-driven surface and subsurface dynamics via grazing-incidence XFEL scattering and diffraction4
AlphaFold and the future of structural biology4
Towards pump–probe single-crystal XFEL refinements for small-unit-cell systems4
On the angular anisotropy of the randomly averaged magnetic neutron scattering cross section of nanoparticles4
Structure and function relationship of formate dehydrogenases: an overview of recent progress4
Illuminating DNA repair in action: structural insights into a photocaged glycosylase complex4
Kilohertz serial crystallography with the JUNGFRAU detector at a fourth-generation synchrotron source4
Solving molecular compounds from powder diffraction data: are results always reliable?4
Structure of MltG from Mycobacterium abscessus reveals structural plasticity between composed domains4
Chaperone-mediated MHC-I peptide exchange in antigen presentation4
Structure of ice VII with Hirshfeld atom refinement4
On the flexibility of the multipole model refinement. A DFT benchmark study of the tetrakis(μ-acetato)diaquadicopper model system4
Linear-scaling aspherical crystallographic refinement of proteins: a case study for crambin and rubredoxin4
Predicting photoactivity in dithienylethene crystalline solids4
Influence of modelling disorder on Hirshfeld atom refinement results of an organo-gold(I) compound4
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