IUCr 1995 Report - Acta Crystallographica Section B

Section B published 128 Full Articles in 1104 pages during 1995. This included a special conference issue in August 1995 containing 22 papers from the 1994 American Crystallographic Association Symposium on New Trends in Small Moiety Crystallography, organized by Frank Herbstein, who acted as Guest Editor for the special issue. Additionally, Section B published one major Lead Article and two shorter Topical Reviews in addition to five Short Communications. The number of papers received by the Editorial Office compares almost exactly with 1993 and 1994. Thus, despite losing a few papers on biological crystallography to the new Section D, this loss has been offset by a concomitant increase in Section B papers from other areas of structural science.

Section B is also building carefully on the CIF-submission procedures pioneered for Section C. This is now an area for development in Section B. A controlled policy has been adopted of publishing reports of individual crystal structures, provided that the paper contains other experimental and computational results and/or has a detailed discussion that is scientifically appropriate. The balance between review material and original research papers is a delicate one in a primary journal and current policy is to be reasonably selective in commissioning new review material. Having said that, it is often difficult to obtain authoritative reviews from busy potential authors. Despite its diversity of scientific content, Section B remains an important vehicle for the publication of results in structural crystallography and related areas.

F. H. Allen, Editor

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