British Journal of Cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Discipline	Oncology
Language	English
Edited by
Publication details
History	1947–present
Publisher	Nature Research (United Kingdom)
Frequency	24/year
Open access	After 12 months
License	CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 (1999+)
Impact factor	7.64 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Br. J. Cancer
Indexing CODEN · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0007-0920 (print) 1532-1827 (web)
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The British Journal of Cancer is a twice-monthly professional medical journal owned by Cancer Research UK (a registered charity in the United Kingdom), published on their behalf by Springer Nature's Nature Research.

The British Journal of Cancer (BJC) provides a forum for clinicians and scientists to communicate original research findings that have relevance to understanding the etiology of cancer and to improving patient treatment and survival. Once accepted, papers are published in print and online.

Full research papers are published under six broad headings:

• Clinical studies
• Translational therapeutics
• Molecular diagnostics
• Genetics and genomics
• Cellular and molecular biology
• Epidemiology

Ranking[]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal received an impact factor of 7.64,^[1] ranking it 39th journals in the category of Oncology.^[2] SJR ranked BJC as 30th journal in cancer research with H-index 224.^[3]

Indexing[]

BJC is a top cited general cancer journal committed to publishing cutting edge discovery, translational and clinical cancer research.^[4] The journal is indexed in:

See also[]

• Cancer in the United Kingdom
• List of medical journals

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Cancer Research UK- General Portal (for the General Public)
• Cancer Research UK- Scientific Portal (for scientists and medical professionals)
• Protection against sunburn (in German)