Cancer Cell
Last updated ISSN 1535-6108
Cancer Cell is published by Cell Press in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $10,400.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Cancer Cell concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
- CAR-T cell therapy research
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Cancer Cells and Metastasis
- Immune cells in cancer
- Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
Key facts
| Publisher | Cell Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1535-6108, 1878-3686 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $10,400 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,256 |
| Publishing since | 1983 |
| Journal website | www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cancer-cell |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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