Cancer (journal)

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

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]

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
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

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]