Journal profile · ONCOLOGY
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
ISSN 2473-4276 · American Society of Clinical Oncology
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; median 155 days to acceptance (95 articles, last 24 months); 179 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics is published by American Society of Clinical Oncology and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Electronic Health Records Systems, Machine Learning in Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, together about 31.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics (JCO CCI) is an online-only interdisciplinary journal publishing clinically relevant research based on biomedical informatics methods and processes applied to cancer-related data, information, and images.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ONCOLOGY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Electronic Health Records SystemsHealth Professions13.5%
- Machine Learning in HealthcareComputer Science9.6%
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationMedicine8.6%
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingMedicine6.5%
- Medical Coding and Health InformationHealth Professions5.7%
- Biomedical Text Mining and OntologiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.7%
- AI in cancer detectionComputer Science5.6%
- Cancer survivorship and careMedicine5.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Oncology | Zone 3 |
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oncology | Q2 | 166/428 | — |
| Health Informatics | Q2 | 73/168 | — |
| Cancer Research | Q3 | 134/233 | — |
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
- 4.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.17LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.08LetPub ·
- h-index
- 56OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 437OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.86OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 38.01%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 149LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,173 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 142 | 55 | 2,499 |
| 2025 | 179 | 105 | 3,397 |
| 2024 | 147 | 105 | 3,072 |
| 2023 | 134 | 96 | 2,880 |
| 2022 | 110 | 88 | 2,391 |
| 2021 | 134 | 88 | 1,849 |
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
155 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 101 days – 193 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 45 days (95 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 204 days
- Sample
- 95 articles with submission and acceptance dates (349 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- ISSN
- 2473-4276
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
What CAS zone is JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 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.
How long does peer review take at JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics?
Based on the dates recorded on 95 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 155 days (interquartile range 101–193 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 JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics open access, and what is the APC?
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .