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Radiotherapy and Oncology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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ISSN 0167-8140Verify ISSN ↗1879-0887Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,770 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 22 / 361 | 94th | Q1 |
| Hematology | 17 / 151 | 89th | Q1 |
| Oncology | 66 / 428 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.1.
Radiotherapy and Oncology is Q1 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 22 of 361), Q1 in Hematology (rank 17 of 151) and Q1 in Oncology (rank 66 of 428), by CiteScore 2025.
Radiotherapy and 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 9.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.076, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 196.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,770 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.
Radiotherapy and Oncology is published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0167-8140 and its online ISSN is 1879-0887.
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.
Radiotherapy and Oncology has an h-index of 227 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #235 of 346 Scopus journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.
Radiotherapy and Oncology published 3,473 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 3,769. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Netherlands (11.8%), United States (11.2%) and China (10.1%).
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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