Impact factor

The 2006 impact factor for Nature Reviews Cancer is 31.583, according to the ISI Journal Citation Reports. This makes Nature Reviews Cancer the number one monthly review journal in the field of oncology.

The 2006 impact factor represents the number of citation in 2006 of papers published in 2004 and 2005, divided by the total number of citable papers published in 2004 and 2005. A more detailed explanation of impact factors appears on the ISI web site.