Oncotarget
Last updated ISSN 1949-2553
Oncotarget is published by Impact Journals LLC in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Oncotarget concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Cancer Cells and Metastasis
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
- Circular RNAs in diseases
- Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Key facts
| Publisher | Impact Journals LLC |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1949-2553 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 27,616 |
| Publishing since | 1909 |
| Journal website | www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal= |
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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