The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising is a dataset published in Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science (2002). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 18.6, placing it in the top 7.5% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 10,292 times, with 197 citing works in its 1-hop citation network.
The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) now contains data for more than a quarter of a million small-molecule crystal structures. The information content of the CSD, together with methods for data acquisition, processing and validation, are summarized, with particular emphasis on the chemical information added by CSD editors. Nearly 80% of new structural data arrives electronically, mostly in CIF format, and the CCDC acts as the official crystal structure data depository for 51 major journals. The CCDC now maintains both a CIF archive (more than 73,000 CIFs dating from 1996), as well as the distributed binary CSD archive; the availability of data in both archives is discussed. A statistical survey of the CSD is also presented and projections concerning future accession rates indicate that the CSD will contain at least 500,000 crystal structures by the year 2010.
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Base Score Contribution
1.4
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
17.2
From 197 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by citation count — the same ordering the engine uses when summing log1p(Cq) over citers.
DataRank blends this paper's own citation count with the influence of the papers that cite it. Here, roughly 7% comes from its base citations and 93% from the citation network (197 citing papers contributed measurable signal).
Citers are pulled from OpenAlex sorted by cited_by_count:descand capped per paper, so when the cap binds we keep the highest-signal references and the score is reproducible across reruns.
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