In this post, apart from Nature Reviews Cancer Impact Factor, I have tried to compile all the necessary information a research scholar would seek before publishing an article in the journal.
About Nature Reviews Cancer Journal
Nature Reviews Cancer is a peer-reviewed journal from Nature Publishing Group. Nature Reviews Cancer is a monthly review journal covering the field of oncology. It was established in 2001.
Impact Factor
SJR Rank
H-index
Impact Factor of Nature Reviews Cancer Journal
Impact Factor (IF) or often called journal impact factor (JIF) is an index provided by an analytics company named Clarivate. The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of times the articles are cited in the last two years by the total number of publications in those two years.
- Total Citations in 2020 and 2021 = 500
- Total Number of Publications in 2020 and 2021 = 100
- Impact Factor of the Journal in 2022 = 500/100 = 5
Latest Nature Reviews Cancer Impact Factor (2017-2023)
- Nature Reviews Cancer Impact Factor 2017 – 42.784
- Nature Reviews Cancer Impact Factor 2018 – 51.848
- Nature Reviews Cancer Impact Factor 2019 – 53.030
- Nature Reviews Cancer Impact Factor 2020 – 60.716
- Nature Reviews Cancer Impact Factor 2021 – 69.800
- Nature Reviews Cancer Impact Factor 2022 – 78.5 (updated in June 2023)
Nature Reviews Cancer Impact Factor 2022
Nature Reviews Cancer H-index
The h index is a metric for evaluating the cumulative impact of an author’s scholarly output and performance; measures quantity with quality by comparing publications to citations.
The h index of Nature Reviews Cancer Journal is 462, which means among all the published articles in this journal, 462 of these publications have received at least 462 citations each.
Journal Metrics
Nature Reviews Cancer CiteScore
CiteScore (CS) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal.
| Cites / Doc. (3 years) | 2018 | 24.560 |
| Cites / Doc. (3 years) | 2019 | 23.977 |
| Cites / Doc. (3 years) | 2020 | 24.208 |
| Cites / Doc. (3 years) | 2021 | 28.018 |
| Cites / Doc. (2 years) | 2018 | 25.276 |
| Cites / Doc. (2 years) | 2019 | 21.639 |
| Cites / Doc. (2 years) | 2020 | 18.060 |
| Cites / Doc. (2 years) | 2021 | 27.459 |
Nature Reviews Cancer SCImago Rank
The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator is a measure of the scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where the citations come from.
| Year | SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 28.061 |
| 2019 | 21.287 |
| 2020 | 19.575 |
| 2021 | 16.955 |
Nature Reviews Cancer Editors
- Editor in Chief: Anna Dart
- Associate Editor: Daniela Senft, Gabrielle Brewer
Nature Reviews Cancer Publication Fee
Articles published in Nature Reviews can only be published using the subscription publication route. The journal does not offer an immediate gold open access (OA) publication option.
In the subscription publication route, no fee has to be paid by the author. The public or subscribers pays to access these journals. The visibility of such paper would be low compared to OA journals.
Nature Reviews Cancer Review Time
Nature Reviews Cancer prioritizes rapid publication and because its an open access journal, the papers are immediately available upon publication to the research community and beyond.
| Submission to First Decision | NA |
| Submission to first post-review decision | NA |
| Submission to accept | NA |
Nature Reviews Cancer Reference Style
Nature Reviews Cancer uses the standard Nature referencing style.
Printed journals
Schott, D. H., Collins, R. N. & Bretscher, A. Secretory vesicle transport velocity in living cells depends on the myosin V lever arm length. J. Cell Biol. 156, 35-39 (2002).
Online only
Bellin, D. L. et al. Electrochemical camera chip for simultaneous imaging of multiple metabolites in biofilms. Nat. Commun. 7, 10535; 10.1038/ncomms10535 (2016).
For papers with more than five authors include only the first author’s name followed by ‘et al.’.
Books:
Smith, J. Syntax of referencing in How to reference books (ed. Smith, S.) 180-181 (Macmillan, 2013).
Online material:
Babichev, S. A., Ries, J. & Lvovsky, A. I. Quantum scissors: teleportation of single-mode optical states by means of a nonlocal single photon. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0208066 (2002).
Manaster, J. Sloth squeak. Scientific American Blog Network http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2014/04/09/sloth-squeak (2014).
Hao, Z., AghaKouchak, A., Nakhjiri, N. & Farahmand, A. Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system (GIDMaPS) data sets. figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.853801 (2014).
Nature Reviews Cancer Endnote Style
You can download the Nature Reviews Cancer Endnote Style and Nature Reviews Cancer Zotero Style
Nature Reviews Cancer Abbreviation
The ISO 4 standard abbreviation for abstracting, indexing, and referencing purposes of Nature Reviews Cancer is “Nat. Rev. Cancer.“
Nature Reviews Cancer Acceptance Rate
The acceptance rate of a journal is the ratio of the number of articles submitted to the number of articles published.
The average acceptance rate of Nature Reviews Cancer journal is not known
Nature Reviews Cancer Indexed in
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