How will Crystal Research and Technology develop as an international journal examining all aspects in research in theoretical, experimental and industrial crystallography in 2000 ?

Up to now the journal covers the relevant aspects of crystal growth phenomena including liquid crystals and thin films. Furthermore, the main field of generation and characterisation of modern crystalline materials, e.g., smart materials, nanocrystals, quasicrystals, biocrystals, will be treated in our journal. Particular emphasis will be placed on the problems connected with industrial crystallisation. The journal publishes also papers describing the numerous applications of crystals in materials science, electronics, data storage and optics. It features also experimental and theoretical studies of the structural properties of crystals, where the methods of crystallographic computing are of special interest. New developments in crystallography, especially in the field of crystal growth, materials science will also be treated in the journal.

However, structure reports (results of determinations of unknown crystal structures; refinements of previously published structures) within Crystal Research and Technology will only be published if there is any correlation to crystal properties and applications. Furthermore, we will only accept structure reports if the structure data (structure factor lists) are deposited in one of the crystallographic data bases (e.g. Cambridge data base CCDC or FIZ Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe) as it is the common practice of all structure journals.

The success of a scientific journal depends on the quality of the papers submitted, the rigorous refereeing procedure and the work of the Editorial Board as well as the Advisory Board to convince the authors that Crystal Research and Technology is the best forum for presenting their results as it was denoted in a previous Editorial. The scientific success of our journal also expressed by a constant increase of the impact factor during the last years is in good agreement with our publishing philosophy.

At this point we should like to thank all the referees for the time and expertise that they devote to this difficult work.

Crystal Research and Technology is available online as many other Wiley journals. Our subscribers have the great advantage to read the papers via the Internet before the journal is printed.

Anyone who is interested in the field of crystallography may obtain any important information about the journal quickly using the journal's Internet address. Crystal Research and Technology Online offers the following information on the CRT home page:

http://www.CrystalResearch.com

- How to order this journal
- Editorioal and Advisory Board
- Editorial information
- Instructions to authors
- Contents of current issues
- How to contact the journal
- The possibility to search in the abstracts

The abstracts of the forthcoming issue and all the issues of the last three volumes of Crystal Research and Technology are available via the Internet for everyone. However, if you are keen on the content of the full paper you are always welcome to be a subscriber of our journal.

The success of Crystal Research and Technology is the product of teamwork: the creativity of the authors, the evaluation and fairness of the referees, the support and criticism of the members of the Editorial and Advisory Boards, and not least the professional work of the publisher Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin GmbH.

We encourage all of you to take part in our common work for your international scientific reputation as well as the reputation of Crystal Research and Technology.

Wolfgang Neumann
Editor-in-Chief

Klaus-Werner Benz
Consulting Editor

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