Cancers is a peer-reviewed, open access, medical journal published by MDPI covering all fields of oncology. The editor-in-chief is Samuel C. Mok (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center). The Irish Association for Cancer Research (IACR) and the Signal Transduction Society (STS) are affiliated societies.
In Research Evaluation, Ángeles Oviedo-García highlighted irregularities concerning the volume of material the journal publishes and citation practices which may contribute to an over-inflated impact factor.M Ángeles Oviedo-García, Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Research Evaluation, Volume 30, Issue 3, July 2021, Pages 405–419a, https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvab020 Multiple systematic reviews appearing in Cancers have been identified as contributing to "citation contamination" through the repeated citation of fabricated work.Tang G, Cai H. Citation Contamination by Paper Mill Articles in Systematic Reviews of the Life Sciences. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(6):e2515160. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.15160
Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
In 2024, the journal had an impact factor of 4.4.
In 2025, Cancers was rated "0" by the Julkaisufoorumi, Finland's national research classification system.https://jfp.csc.fi/jufoportal?Jufo_ID=76938 This means that the journal did not meet the national research standards for peer-review or having an appropriate editorial board.
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