Crystallography Journals Online publishes 100 000th article

Wolfgang Kabsch, author of the 100 000th publication on Crystallography Journals Online.

Figure 1. Schematic drawing of the area-detector environment.

The IUCr celebrates an important milestone in its history - the publication of the 100 000th article on Crystallography Journals Online. Crystallography Journals Online hosts all the articles published by IUCr Journals since 1948 in the journals Acta Crystallographica, Journal of Applied Crystallography and Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, and is an essential resource for scientists worldwide. In addition to journal articles, the platform also hosts over 40 000 high-quality crystallographic data sets.

'The creation of a crystallographic journal was the driving force in the formation of the IUCr in 1948', says Professor Sine Larsen, President of the IUCr. 'The publication of the 100 000th article in the IUCr Journals is a clear demonstration of the importance and successful thinking of the publishing activities of the IUCr.'

The 100 000th article was published in the February 2010 issue of Acta Crystallographica Section D. The article [Acta Cryst. (2010). D66, 125-132, doi:10.1107/S0907444909047337] was written by Wolfgang Kabsch (Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung, Abteilung Biophysik, Heidelberg, Germany) and concerns XDS, a widely used software package for the processing of single-crystal diffraction data recorded by the rotation method. Dr Kabsch was pleased to learn that his article is the 100 000th publication on Crystallography Journals Online. He noted 'Apparently, crystallography is still a lively developing field! The rapid progress in technology becomes apparent from Figure 1 of my original paper on XDS, "Evaluation of Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction Data from a Position-Sensitive Detector", J. Appl. Cryst. (1988). 21, 916-924. The program was developed for rapid and reliable data collection with the new Nicolet/Xentronics multiwire detector. It was originally running on a Motorola MC68020 in 8 Mbyte of memory. Since then XDS has been constantly modified for many other detector types and restructured to exploit the power of modern multiprocessor systems.'

Professor Gernot Kostorz, the Editor-in-Chief of IUCr Journals, comments 'Numbers alone do not give the complete picture. Despite increasing pressure on publication speed and threats on the quality of content, the Journals of the IUCr continue to set standards, maintaining and enhancing the quality of scientific publishing.'

Crystallography Journals Online can be accessed at journals.iucr.org.