Cancer (journal)

Cancer  

Abbreviated title (ISO 4)	Cancer
Discipline	Oncology
Language	English
Edited by	Fadlo R. Khuri
Publication details
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell for the American Cancer Society (United States)
Publication history	1948–present
Frequency	Biweekly
Impact factor (2015)	5.649
Indexing
ISSN	0008-543X (print) 1097-0142 (web)
LCCN	50001289
CODEN	CANCAR
OCLC no.	01553275
Links
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Cancer is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers 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 was Fred W. Stewart, who held that position until 1961. The editor-in-chief is Fadlo R. Khuri. Cancer Cytopathology was published as a supplement 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
• BIOSIS Previews^[3]
• CAB Abstracts^[4]
• Chemical Abstracts^[5]
• CINAHL^[6]
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine^[3]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences^[3]
• Current Index to Statistics
• Elsevier BIOBASE^[2]
• Embase^[2]
• Global Health^[7]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[8]
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature^[2]
• PASCAL
• PsychINFO^[9]
• Science Citation Index^[3]
• Scopus^[2]
• Sociedad Iberoamericana de Informacion Cientifica (SIIC) databases
• Tropical Diseases Bulletin^[10]

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".^[11]

References

1. "Cancer". Library of Congress Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
2. "Cancer". Ulrichsweb. ProQuest. Retrieved 2015-01-07. (subscription required (help)).
3. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
4. "Serials cited". CAB Abstracts. CABI. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
5. "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
6. "CINAHL Complete Database Coverage List". CINAHL. EBSCO Information Services. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
7. "Serials cited". Global Health. CABI. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
8. "Cancer". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
9. "PsychINFO Journal Coverage". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
10. "Serials cited". Tropical Diseases Bulletin. CABI. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
11. "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.v113:7+.
• 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.