Journal History
2009 | Inaugural issue was released, initially published as a quarterly journal. |
2013 | Indexed by PubMed (NLM) and Scopus. |
2015 | Changed to publish in article number order instead of in page range order. |
2016 | Changed to a monthly publication schedule. The Travel Awards project was launched to support young researchers in the field. The journal Twitter account was established. |
2017 | Covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). |
2018 | Cancers received a first Impact Factor of 5.326. The journal ranks 44/222 (Q1) in the 'Oncology' category. |
2019 |
Cancers received an Impact Factor of 6.162. The journal ranks 31/229 (Q1) in the 'Oncology' category in JCR. |
2020 |
Cancers established the following topical sections:
Cancers announced the first edition Outstanding Reviewer Awards and second edition Young Investigator Awards. |
2021 |
Cancers starts to be published semi-monthly online since January 2021. |
Editor-in-Chief
2009–2015 | Founding Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Robert H. Weiss |
2015–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Samuel C. Mok |
2016–present | Associate Editor: Prof. Dr. David Wong |
2017–present | Associate Editor: Dr. Deepak Nagrath |
2020–present | Associate Editor: Prof. Dr. Mary Frances McMullin |
Section Editor-in-Chief
2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Carlos S. Moreno for section Cancer Biomarkers Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Donat Kögel for section Molecular Cancer Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Barbara Wegiel for section Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Nicola Amodio for section Cancer Pathophysiology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sanjay Gupta for section Tumor Microenvironment Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Kevin Camphausen for section Cancer Therapy Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Escargueil for section Cancer Therapy Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Massimo Di Maio for section Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis in Cancer Research Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Fiona Lyng for section Methods and Technologies Development Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Jason Roszik for section Cancer Informatics and Big Data Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Massoud Mirshahi for section Cancer Causes, Screening and Diagnosis Associate Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. J. Chad Brenner for section Cancer Informatics and Big Data Associate Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Subree Subramanian for section Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Associate Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Dario Marchetti for section Tumor Microenvironment Associate Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Giovanna Tosato for section Tumor Microenvironment |
2020–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Eduardo Nagore for section Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention |
2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Antoine Italiano for section Clinical Trials of Cancer |