Cancer Research (journal)

"Journal of Cancer Research" redirects here. For the journal abbreviated 'J. Cancer Res. (Cairo)' published by Hindawi, see Journal of Cancer Research (Hindawi journal).

Cancer Research is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Association for Cancer Research. It covers research on all aspects of cancer and cancer-related biomedical sciences and was established in 1941. The editor-in-chief is Chi Van Dang.^[1]

Cancer Research

Cover of Volume 62, Issue 23
Discipline	Cancer, oncology
Language	English
Edited by	Chi Van Dang
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of Cancer Research, American Journal of Cancer
History	1916–present
Publisher	American Association for Cancer Research (United States)
Frequency	Biweekly
Impact factor	12.5 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Cancer Res.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	CNREA8
ISSN	0008-5472 (print) 1538-7445 (web)
LCCN	44002733
OCLC no.	1553285
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The journal was established in 1916 as the Journal of Cancer Research, was renamed American Journal of Cancer in 1931, and obtained its current name in 1941.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews^[2]
• Chemical Abstracts^[3]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences^[2]
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine^[2]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[4]
• Science Citation Index^[2]
• Scopus^[5]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 12.5.^[6]