Journal profile · ONCOLOGY
Cancer Control
ISSN 1073-2748 · eISSN 1526-2359 · SAGE Publications Inc. · UNITED STATES OF AMERICA · Continuous publication · Founded 1994
Cancer Control: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.03; fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; review over 12 weeks (community reports); acceptance rate 28.4% (journal website); 245 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Cancer Control is published by SAGE Publications Inc. and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Cancer survivorship and care and Cervical Cancer and HPV Research, together about 23.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Oncology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal Highlights Impact Factor of 2.6Published at SAGE since 2017 Article Processing Charge of $3000 USD Focus on prevention, detectio...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ONCOLOGY
Editorial board by country: 45 in mainland China (about 16%); most named United States 110, Mainland China 45, Türkiye 17, Italy 16, India 15 (288 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Global Cancer Incidence and ScreeningMedicine11.8%
- Cancer survivorship and careMedicine6.5%
- Cervical Cancer and HPV ResearchMedicine4.8%
- Breast Cancer Treatment StudiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.3%
- Lung Cancer Treatments and MutationsMedicine4.3%
- Head and Neck Cancer StudiesMedicine4.1%
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology ResearchMedicine4%
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and DetectionMedicine3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Oncology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Oncology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Oncology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.03LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.91LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- h-index
- 66LetPub ·
- h-index
- 97OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,185OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.1OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 230LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,002 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 189 | 189 | 72 |
| 2025 | 245 | 245 | 662 |
| 2024 | 218 | 218 | 1,287 |
| 2023 | 139 | 139 | 1,252 |
| 2022 | 178 | 178 | 2,400 |
| 2021 | 143 | 143 | 2,468 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 28.4%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,650 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 300 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Not considered
- case studies; studies conducted solely in in vitro models
Article types accepted10, with length limits
- case studyView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research articles Description: …Length not stated
- commentarychanges or trends related to the field. Commentaries must be less than 2,500 words and have no more than 20 references. Abstract structure: Unmain text ≤ 2,500 words
- editorialesearch and therapy. The word limit for editorial articles is maximum 2,000 words and up to 20 references. In the context of a Special Collecmain text ≤ 2,000 words
- literature reviewView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research articles Description: …Length not stated
- mini reviewnges and potential future developments. Mini Reviews should be approximately 2000 words. The abstract should not exceed 350 words and should be strmain text ≤ 2,000 words
- original research articleView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research articles Description: …Length not stated
- original research articlesOriginal Research articles Description: Original, in-depth, research articles must follow the Aims & Scope of CCX with emphasis on prevention, detection, diagno…Length not stated
- perspectivemitted as an original research article. Perspectives Description: Perspectives are opinion pieces and should not exceed 3,000 words and 30 references. Perspecti…main text ≤ 3,000 words
- research articleView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research articles Description: …Length not stated
- reviewView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research articles Description: …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Cancer Control is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Model summary
Cancer Control is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the funder, in…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Identity transparency: All identities visible Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency:Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Executive Editor, Deputy Editor, Managing Editors, Section Editors Review information published: Review reports (author opt in) Review reports (reviewer opt in) Author/editor communication Reviewer identities (reviewer opt in) Your manuscript will undergo an in…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Continuous publication
- Founded
- 1994
- ISSN
- 1073-2748
- Electronic ISSN
- 1526-2359
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Cancer Control
What CAS zone is Cancer Control in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Cancer Control is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Oncology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Cancer Control?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.03; CiteScore 4.3, h-index 97.
How long does peer review take at Cancer Control?
Authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 28.4%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Cancer Control?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Reference style: AMA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Cancer Control based?
Of the 288 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 45 (about 16%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (110), Mainland China (45) and Türkiye (17). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Cancer Control?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Cancer Control is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Cancer Control open access, and what is the APC?
Cancer Control is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .