The ''British Journal of Cancer'' (BJC) is a twice-monthly professional

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published by

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. The BJC provides a forum for clinicians and scientists to communicate original research findings that have relevance to understanding the

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and to improving patient treatment and survival. Once accepted, papers are published in print and online. Full research papers are published under six broad headings: *

Clinical studies Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, dietar ...

* Translational therapeutics *

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and

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* Cellular and molecular biology *

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History

The journal was founded in 1947 by the then British Empire Cancer Campaign (later named Cancer Research Campaign), one of the research charities which later merged to form

Cancer Research UK Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organisation. It is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, and was formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and t ...

. Cancer Research Campaign began partnering with Nature as publisher of the journal in the 1980s, but retained ownership and editorial control. In 2021, after the charity experienced a fall in charitable income during the

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, Cancer Research UK sold the journal to Springer Nature.

Ranking

According to the ''

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'', the journal received an

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of 9.0, ranking it 39th journals in the category of ''Oncology''.SJR
ranked BJC as 30th journal in cancer research with H-index 224.

Indexing

BJC is a top cited general cancer journal committed to publishing cutting edge discovery, translational and clinical cancer research. The journal is indexed in:

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