Oncotarget


Oncotarget is a twice weekly peer-reviewed open access bio-medical journal covering research on all aspects of oncology and publishing sub-sections on topics beyond oncology. The journal was established in 2010 and is published by Impact Journals. The editors-in-chief are Mikhail Blagosklonny and Andrei V. Gudkov.
In 2017, the journal was dropped from MEDLINE. In 2018 Clarivate Analytics, who maintain the most prominent Impact factor index, delisted the journal from the Journal Citation Reports and all of its other products because "the journal no longer meets the standards necessary for continued coverage", despite having listed the journal as a "Rising Star from Essential Science Indicators" only a few months prior.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed, Meta, and Scopus. It was dropped from Index Medicus/MEDLINE in 2017 and in 2018 from BIOSIS Previews and the Science Citation Index Expanded.

Reception

The peer review process employed by the journal has been criticized by Jeffrey Beall, a university librarian and expert on predatory open access publishing, who also included the journal on his list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals" in July 2015. Allegedly, journal editor Mikhail Blagosklonny responded by threatening to retract the papers of Beall's colleagues at the University of Colorado.