Cancer Research
Last updated ISSN 0008-5472
Cancer Research is published by American Association for Cancer Research in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Cancer Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Cancer Research and Treatments
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Cancer Cells and Metastasis
- Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
- Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | American Association for Cancer Research |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0008-5472, 1538-7445 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 159,110 |
| Publishing since | 1880 |
| Journal website | cancerres.aacrjournals.org/ |
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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