Cancer Research: impact and ranking
Cancer Research has a 2-year mean citedness of 0.61 in OpenAlex, which ranks #11,719 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 469. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.61 #11,719 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 469 #120 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.1M #105 of 18,122
- Works
- 160k 13.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Cancer Research?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Cancer Research: 0.61, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Cancer Research #11,719 of 18,122 journals, in the top 65%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Cancer Research?
OpenAlex gives Cancer Research an h-index of 469: 469 of its papers have each been cited at least 469 times. That ranks #120 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Cancer Research publish?
OpenAlex records 159,509 works in Cancer Research from 1880 to 2026, cited 2,143,618 times in all, 13.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #105 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Cancer Research
- Publisher
- American Association for Cancer Research
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0008-5472
- In OpenAlex
- 1880 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Cancer Research as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- cancerres.aacrjournals.org
- OpenAlex record
- S168522863
Journals ranked near Cancer Research
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Cancer Research on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11,460 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 0.66 | 508 |
| 11,632 | The Journal of Immunology | 0.63 | 530 |
| 11,682 | The American Journal of Gastroenterology | 0.62 | 336 |
| 11,727 | Diabetes | 0.61 | 447 |
| 12,158 | British journal of surgery | 0.53 | 310 |
| 12,192 | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology | 0.53 | 371 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.