Acta Crystallographica Section A
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The journal is abstracted and indexed in Biological Abstracts, the Cambridge Structural Database, Ceramic Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Crossref, the Current Chemical Reactions Database, Google Scholar, the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database, INSPEC, Medline, Metals Abstracts/METADEX, PubMed Central, the Reaction Citation Index, the Science Citation Index, the Science Citation Index Expanded, SCISEARCH and Scopus.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 1.9, ranking it 15th out of 33 journals in the category "Crystallography".
The journal attracted attention when its impact factor reached 49.9 in 2009 after the publication of an article on the SHELX crystallographic software by George M. Sheldrick. This led to a debate on the usefulness of such metrics.