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Current Opinion in Oncology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 1040-8746Verify ISSN ↗1531-703XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oncology | 170 / 428 | 60th | Q2 |
| Cancer Research | 137 / 233 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Current Opinion in Oncology is Q2 in Oncology (rank 170 of 428) and Q3 in Cancer Research (rank 137 of 233), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Opinion in Oncology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.979, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 108.
Current Opinion in Oncology is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 1040-8746 and its online ISSN is 1531-703X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Current Opinion in Oncology has an h-index of 119 and a 2-year mean of 2.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #131 of 424 Scopus journals in Oncology.
Current Opinion in Oncology published 89 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 105. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Italy (19.3%), United States (18.6%) and Belgium (17.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). 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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