The Oncologist
Last updated ISSN 1083-7159
The Oncologist is published by AlphaMed Press in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,852.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Oncologist concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
- Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Lung Cancer Research Studies
- Renal cell carcinoma treatment
- Cancer survivorship and care
Key facts
| Publisher | AlphaMed Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1083-7159, 1549-490X |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,852 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 7,654 |
| Publishing since | 1938 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1549490x |
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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