Cancer is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering oncology. The journal was established in 1948. It is an official journal of the American Cancer Society and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the society. The first editor-in-chief was Fred W. Stewart, who held that position until 1961. The current editor-in-chief is Suresh S. Ramalingam, and the previous one was Fadlo R. Khuri. Cancer Cytopathology was published as a section from 1997 until 2008, when it was split into a separate journal.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 5.649, ranking it 26th out of 211 journals in the category "Oncology".
References
Further reading
- "Supplement: 60th Anniversary Edition of Cancer". Cancer. 113 (S7): 1717–993. October 1, 2008. doi:10.1002/cncr.23740.
- Hutter, RVP (January 1, 1998). "50 years of Cancer". Cancer. 82 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980101)82:1<1::AID-CNCR1>3.0.CO;2-Y.
- The Journal, referred to as Cancer Magazine, is included in the listing published here: Lapointe, Kirk (13 May 1998). "Cancer sites offer vast information—and news". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. p. D12 – via Newspapers.com.
