Journal History
| 2011 | The inaugural issue released, initially published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2015 | Crystals was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). |
| 2016 | Crystals received its first Impact Factor of 2.075. Crystals adopted a monthly publication schedule. |
| 2017 | Crystals announced the first edition of the Travel Awards. Crystals established the following sections:
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| 2018 | Crystals published its 1,000th paper. Crystals received an Impact Factor of 2.144 for the year 2018; the 5-year Impact Factor was 1.982. Crystals announced the second edition of the Travel Awards. Crystals organized the 1st International E-Conference on Crystals. Crystal Engineering and Interactions in Crystal Structures (Link not available) were rearranged to create two new sections Crystalline Materials (Link not available) and Crystal Engineering, respectively. |
| 2019 | Crystals started the Reviewer Board and Topic Board project. Crystals announced the third edition of the Travel Award. |
| 2020 | Crystals received an Impact Factor of 2.404 for the year 2020. Crystals announced the third of the Travel Award. Crystals organized the 2nd International Online Conference on Crystals. Crystals established the following sections: |
| 2021 |
Crystals received an Impact Factor of 2.589 for the year 2021. |
| 2022 | Crystals received its first Impact Factor (2022) of 2.670. -Alloys and Compounds was renamed as Crystalline Metals and Alloys. -Crystalline Ceramics was renamed as Polycrystalline Ceramics. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2011–2014 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gerd Meyer |
| 2015–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Helmut Cölfen |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2017–2018 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shujun Zhang for the section on Crystal Engineering |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Charles Rosenblatt for the section on Liquid Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sławomir J. Grabowski for the section on Interactions in Crystal Structures | |
| 2018–2019 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sławomir J. Grabowski for the section on Crystal Engineering |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Abel Moreno for the section on Biomolecular Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Charles Rosenblatt for the section on Liquid Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shujun Zhang for the section on Crystalline Materials | |
| 2019–2020 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sławomir J. Grabowski for the section on Crystal Engineering |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Abel Moreno for the section on Biomolecular Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Charles Rosenblatt for the section on Liquid Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shujun Zhang for the section on Inorganic Crystalline Materials | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Neil Champness for the section on Organic Crystalline Materials | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jesús Sanmartín-Matalobos for the section on Macromolecular Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Leonid Kustov for the section on Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang W. Schmahl for the section on Mineralogical Crystallography and Biomineralization | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Heike Lorenz for the section on Industrial Crystallization | |
| 2020–2021 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sławomir J. Grabowski for the section on Crystal Engineering |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Abel Moreno for the section on Biomolecular Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Charles Rosenblatt for the section on Liquid Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shujun Zhang for the section on Inorganic Crystalline Materials | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Neil Champness for the section on Organic Crystalline Materials | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jesús Sanmartín-Matalobos for the section on Macromolecular Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Leonid Kustov for the section on Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang W. Schmahl for the section on Mineralogical Crystallography and Biomineralization | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Heike Lorenz for the section on Industrial Crystallization | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Cyril Cayron for the section on Alloys and Compounds | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Robert F. Klie for the section on Materials for Energy Applications | |
| 2022–2023 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Cyril Cayron for the section on Crystalline Metals and Alloys |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sławomir J. Grabowski for the section on Crystal Engineering |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Abel Moreno for the section on Biomolecular Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Charles Rosenblatt for the section on Liquid Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shujun Zhang for the section on Polycrystalline Ceramics | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Neil Champness for the section on Organic Crystalline Materials | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jesús Sanmartín-Matalobos for the section on Macromolecular Crystals | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Leonid Kustov for the section on Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang W. Schmahl for the section on Mineralogical Crystallography and Biomineralization | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Heike Lorenz for the section on Industrial Crystallization | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Robert F. Klie for the section on Materials for Energy Applications | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Zongyou Yin for the section on Inorganic Crystalline Materials | |
| 2023–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Hongbin Bei for the section on Crystalline Metals and Alloys |
