Cancer (journal)

Not to be confused with "Cancers"( ISSN   2072-6694),published by MDPI.

Cancer

Discipline	Oncology
Language	English
Edited by	Suresh S. Ramalingam
Publication details
History	1948–present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Cancer Society  (United States)
Frequency	Biweekly
Impact factor	6.1 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Cancer
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
CODEN	CANCAR
ISSN	0008-543X  (print) 1097-0142  (web)
LCCN	50001289
OCLC  no.	01553275
Links
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Cancer is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering oncology. The journal was established in 1948. It is an official journal of the American Cancer Society and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the society. The first editor-in-chief was Fred W. Stewart, who held that position until 1961. The current editor-in-chief is Suresh S. Ramalingam, and the previous one was Fadlo R. Khuri. Cancer Cytopathology was published as a section from 1997 until 2008, when it was split into a separate journal. ^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Academic OneFile ^[2]
• Academic Search ^[2]
• Biological Abstracts ^[3]
• BIOSIS Previews ^[4]
• CAB Abstracts ^[5]
• Chemical Abstracts ^[6]
• CINAHL ^[7]
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine ^[4]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences ^[4]
• Current Index to Statistics
• Elsevier BIOBASE ^[2]
• Embase ^[2]
• Global Health ^[8]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed ^[9]
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature ^[2]
• PASCAL
• PsycINFO ^[10]
• Science Citation Index ^[4]
• Scopus ^[2]
• Tropical Diseases Bulletin ^[11]

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 5.649, ranking it 26th out of 211 journals in the category "Oncology". ^[12]

References

1. Cancer. Library of Congress. OCLC   01553275 . Retrieved 2015-01-07.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
2. "Cancer" . Ulrichsweb . Retrieved 2015-01-07.
3. "Biological Abstracts – Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
4. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
5. "Serials cited". CAB Abstracts . CABI . Retrieved 2015-01-07.
6. "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service . American Chemical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
7. "CINAHL Complete Database Coverage List". CINAHL . EBSCO Information Services . Retrieved 2015-01-07.
8. "Serials cited". Global Health . CABI . Retrieved 2015-01-07.
9. "Cancer". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2015-01-07.
10. "PsycINFO Journal Coverage". American Psychological Association . Retrieved 2015-01-07.
11. "Serials cited". Tropical Diseases Bulletin . CABI . Retrieved 2015-01-07.
12. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Oncology". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.

Further reading

• "Supplement: 60th Anniversary Edition of Cancer". Cancer. 113 (S7): 1717–993. October 1, 2008. doi: 10.1002/cncr.23740 .
• Hutter, RVP (January 1, 1998). "50 years of Cancer". Cancer. 82 (1): 1–5. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980101)82:1<1::AID-CNCR1>3.0.CO;2-Y .
• The Journal, referred to as Cancer Magazine, is included in the listing published here: Lapointe, Kirk (13 May 1998). "Cancer sites offer vast information—and news". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. p. D12 – via Newspapers.com.