Journal Information

Aims and scope
Cancer Gene Therapy is the essential gene and cellular therapy resource for cancer researchers and clinicians, keeping readers up to date with the latest developments in gene and cellular therapies for cancer. The journal publishes original laboratory and clinical research papers, case reports and review articles. Publication topics include RNAi approaches, drug resistance, hematopoietic progenitor cell gene transfer, cancer stem cells, cellular therapies, homologous recombination, ribozyme technology, antisense technology, tumor immunotherapy and tumor suppressors, translational research, cancer therapy, gene delivery systems (viral and non-viral), anti-gene therapy (antisense, siRNA & ribozymes), apoptosis; mechanisms and therapies, vaccine development, immunology and immunotherapy, DNA synthesis and repair.

Cancer Gene Therapy publishes the results of laboratory investigations, preclinical studies, and clinical trials in the field of gene transfer/gene therapy and cellular therapies as applied to cancer research. Types of articles published include original research articles; case reports; brief communications; review articles in the main fields of drug resistance/sensitivity, gene therapy, cellular therapy, tumor suppressor and anti-oncogene therapy, cytokine/tumor immunotherapy, etc.; industry perspectives; and letters to the editor.

Cancer Gene Therapy covers a range of subject areas, to read content across the scope of the journal view the journal's subjects page here.

Frequency
12 issues a year

Journal Metrics

Article metrics such as number of downloads, citations and online attention are available from each article page, and provide an overview of the attention received by a paper.

2022 Citation Metrics

2-year Impact Factor*: 6.4
5-year Impact Factor*: 6.1
Immediacy index*: 1.0
Eigenfactor® score*: 0.00387
Article influence score*: 1.1
Journal Citation Indicator*: 1.23

SNIP**: 1.066
SJR***: 1.384

*2022 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics, 2023)
**Source-normalized Impact per Paper (Scopus)
***SCImago Journal Rank (Scopus)

2023 Peer Review Metrics

Submission to first editorial decision: 8 days
Submission to Accept: 148 days

2023 Usage Metrics

Downloads: 480,655
Altmetric mentions: 1,248

Abstracted/indexed in

BIOSIS
Google Scholar
Medline
OCLC
Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded
Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
Current Contents/Life Sciences
Scopus
Summon by ProQuest
EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Academic Search
EMBASE

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Cancer Gene Therapy is 0929-1903, and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1476-5500.

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