Cancer Research (journal)


Cancer Research is a peer-reviewed scientific 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 George C. Prendergast. 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:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 9.329, ranking it 11th out of 211 journals in the category "Oncology".