Journal profile · ONCOLOGY
Current Cancer Therapy Reviews
ISSN 1573-3947 · eISSN 1875-6301 · Bentham
Current Cancer Therapy Reviews: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); subscription journal; median 81 days to acceptance (41 articles, last 24 months); 39 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Current Cancer Therapy Reviews is published by Bentham 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 Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery, Head and Neck Cancer Studies and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, together about 20.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Oncology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): ONCOLOGY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryMaterials Science7.1%
- Head and Neck Cancer StudiesMedicine6.6%
- Immunotherapy and Immune ResponsesImmunology and Microbiology6.6%
- Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersMedicine6.2%
- Breast Cancer Treatment StudiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.8%
- Medicinal Plant ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.7%
- Lung Cancer Treatments and MutationsMedicine4.4%
- Cancer Cells and MetastasisMedicine4.2%
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: yes
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Oncology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oncology | Q3 | 317/428 | 26th |
| Cancer Research | Q4 | 200/233 | 14th |
| Molecular Medicine | Q4 | 162/179 | 9th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.21LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.17LetPub ·
- h-index
- 23OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 70OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.01OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0.51%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 37LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 854 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 52 | 1 | 223 |
| 2025 | 39 | 0 | 329 |
| 2024 | 99 | 3 | 257 |
| 2023 | 63 | 2 | 216 |
| 2022 | 48 | 3 | 161 |
| 2021 | 31 | 5 | 168 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
81 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 68 days – 100 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 224 days (41 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 312 days
- Sample
- 41 articles with submission and acceptance dates (188 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Bentham
- ISSN
- 1573-3947
- Electronic ISSN
- 1875-6301
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Current Cancer Therapy Reviews
What CAS zone is Current Cancer Therapy Reviews in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Current Cancer Therapy Reviews is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Oncology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Current Cancer Therapy Reviews?
Based on the dates recorded on 41 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 81 days (interquartile range 68–100 days). 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.
Which databases index Current Cancer Therapy Reviews?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Current Cancer Therapy Reviews is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Current Cancer Therapy Reviews open access, and what is the APC?
Current Cancer Therapy Reviews is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex; 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: .