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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), DOAJ. Published by West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention.
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ISSN 2538-4635Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oncology | 298 / 428 | 30th | Q3 |
| Cancer Research | 193 / 233 | 17th | Q4 |
| Cell Biology | 262 / 289 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology is Q3 in Oncology (rank 298 of 428), Q4 in Cancer Research (rank 193 of 233) and Q4 in Cell Biology (rank 262 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3, 30th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.321, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology is published by West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention. Its ISSN is 2538-4635.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 1.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #255 of 424 Scopus journals in Oncology.
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology published 69 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Iraq (31.2%), India (23.9%) and Indonesia (17.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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