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Current Problems in Cancer is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0147-0272Verify ISSN ↗1535-6345Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,740 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oncology | 178 / 428 | 58th | Q2 |
| Cancer Research | 142 / 233 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.7.
Current Problems in Cancer is Q2 in Oncology (rank 178 of 428) and Q3 in Cancer Research (rank 142 of 233), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Problems in Cancer 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.808, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 54.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,740 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Current Problems in Cancer is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0147-0272 and its online ISSN is 1535-6345.
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 Problems in Cancer has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 2.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #146 of 424 Scopus journals in Oncology.
Current Problems in Cancer published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 110. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.9%), India (23.5%) and China (13.1%).
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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