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Nature Reviews Cancer
Biology and life sciences
Among the 50 biology and life sciences journals in this index it has the 13th highest h-index and the 7th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 447 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 42% |
| United Kingdom | 10% |
| Germany | 6% |
| China | 4% |
| Australia | 4% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 58% |
| Reviews | 40% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers | 7% |
| Cancer Cells and Metastasis | 6% |
| Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics | 5% |
| Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics | 4% |
| Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism | 3% |
| Immune cells in cancer | 2% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology (2023, 585 citations)
- RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer (2023, 568 citations)
- Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy (2023, 528 citations)
- mRNA-based cancer therapeutics (2023, 496 citations)
- Nucleotide metabolism: a pan-cancer metabolic dependency (2023, 470 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 1474-175X):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
Similar journals
- Cell
- Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Nature Reviews Immunology
- Immunity
- Nature Genetics
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