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Current Cancer Drug Targets

Bentham Science Publishers · United Arab Emirates · Est. 1956

ISSN1568-0096eISSN1873-5576

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.726

H-Indexi

114

SNIPi

0.443

Total Worksi

2,056

Total Citationsi

65,358

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.74

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Oncology; Drug Discovery; Pharmacology; Cancer Research.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Arab Emirates

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1956

FrequencyEleven Issues A Year, 2019-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,056

Publisher OrgBentham Science Publishers

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Bentham Science Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1568-0096 / 1873-5576

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.2k

2019

1.3k

2020

764

2021

105

2022

729

2023

143

510

2024

125

185

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Oncology

Scopus Categories

PharmacologyDrug DiscoveryCancer ResearchOncology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Cancer Mechanisms and TherapyCancer, Hypoxia, and MetabolismCancer Research and TreatmentsCancer, Lipids, and MetabolismHistone Deacetylase Inhibitors ResearchCancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersEpigenetics and DNA MethylationCancer-related Molecular PathwaysPI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancerFerroptosis and cancer prognosis

Frequently asked questions about Current Cancer Drug Targets

Is Current Cancer Drug Targets a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Current Cancer Drug Targets: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Current Cancer Drug Targets?

Current Cancer Drug Targets is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.74.

Is Current Cancer Drug Targets indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Current Cancer Drug Targets is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Current Cancer Drug Targets?