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Cancer Causes and Control

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH · Germany · Est. 1990

ISSN1573-7225

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.982

H-Indexi

177

SNIPi

0.908

Total Worksi

4,965

Total Citationsi

225,285

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.18

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Cancer Causes & Control is an international peer-reviewed journal that reports and stimulates new avenues of investigation into the causes, control, and subsequent cancer prevention. Provides significant information for government agencies concerned with cancer research, control, and policy. Showcases valuable content for researchers and practitioners in epidemiology, medical statistics, cancer biology, health education, medical economics, and related fields.

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1990

FrequencyTwelve Times A Year, 2010-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications4,965

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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Submission Info

Peer Reviewpeer-reviewed

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

7/11 · 64%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1573-7225

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

peer-reviewed

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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

135

2.9k

2019

111

1.7k

2020

155

2.2k

2021

138

1.3k

2022

170

2023

113

365

2024

148

154

2025

138

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.

Cancer ResearchQ2

OncologyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

OncologyPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Cancer ResearchOncology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Global Cancer Incidence and ScreeningCancer Risks and FactorsColorectal Cancer Screening and DetectionNutritional Studies and DietCervical Cancer and HPV ResearchCancer survivorship and careCarcinogens and Genotoxicity AssessmentBRCA gene mutations in cancerProstate Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentAcute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research

Frequently asked questions about Cancer Causes and Control

Is Cancer Causes and Control a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Cancer Causes and Control: 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 Cancer Causes and Control?

Cancer Causes and Control 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 1.18.

Is Cancer Causes and Control indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Cancer Causes and Control is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.