British Journal of Cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Discipline	Oncology
Language	English
Edited by	Adrian L Harris
Publication details
History	1947–present
Publisher	Springer Nature  (United Kingdom)
Frequency	24/year
Open access	After 12 months
License	CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 (1999+)
Impact factor	6.4 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Br. J. Cancer
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	0007-0920  (print) 1532-1827  (web)
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The British Journal of Cancer (BJC) is a twice-monthly professional medical journal published by Springer Nature.

The BJC provides a forum for clinicians and scientists to communicate original research findings that have relevance to understanding the etiology of cancer and to improving patient treatment and survival. Once accepted, papers are published in print and online.

Full research papers are published under six broad headings:

• Clinical studies
• Translational therapeutics
• Molecular diagnostics
• Genetics and genomics
• Cellular and molecular biology
• Epidemiology

History

The journal was founded in 1947 by the then British Empire Cancer Campaign (later named Cancer Research Campaign), ^[1] one of the research charities which later merged to form Cancer Research UK. Cancer Research Campaign began partnering with Nature as publisher of the journal in the 1980s, but retained ownership and editorial control. In 2021, after the charity experienced a fall in charitable income during the COVID-19 pandemic, Cancer Research UK sold the journal to Springer Nature. ^[2]

Ranking

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal received an impact factor of 9.0, ^[3] ranking it 39th journals in the category of Oncology. ^[4] SJR ranked BJC as 30th journal in cancer research with H-index 224. ^[5]

Indexing

BJC is a top cited general cancer journal committed to publishing cutting edge discovery, translational and clinical cancer research. ^[6] The journal is indexed in:

• EMBASE Excerpta Medica
• Current Advances in Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Current Contents
• Medline/Index Medicus
• Index to Scientific Reviews
• Science Citation Index
• PubMed

See also

• Cancer in the United Kingdom
• List of medical journals

References

1. "Papers of: Cancer Research Campaign formerly British Empire Cancer Campaign (founded 1923) - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk.
2. "Springer Nature acquires British Journal of Cancer | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature".
3. "British Journal of Cancer". Nature portfolio.
4. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Oncology". 2019 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2018.
5. "British Journal of Cancer". www.scimagojr.com.
6. "OfficialWebsite". 23 January 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Protection against sunburn (in German)