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Preliminary Steps in Writing a Scientific Manuscript
The Institute for Scientific Information then takes these impact factors and ranks the journals within their specialty areas. The rankings below are of the top 15 journals in the oncology category in 2019: Title Impact Factor 1. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 292.278 2. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 53.276 3. Nature Review Cancer 53.030 4. Lancet Oncology 33.752 5. Journal of Clinical Oncology 32.956 6. Cancer Discovery 29.497 7. Cancer Cell 26.602 8. JAMA Oncology 24.799 9. Annals of Oncology 18.274 10. Molecular Cancer 15.302 11. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 13.357 12. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 11.577 13. Trends in Cancer 11.093 14. Seminars in Cancer Biology 11.090 15. Journal of Hematology & Oncology 11.059 Once you have a target journal in mind, ask your colleagues for advice. They can often tell you if your research has a realistic chance of being published by the journal you are considering. If you are considering a prestigious, high-impact journal, ask yourself whether you can afford a possible delay in publication if your paper is sent out for review but ultimately rejected. Also ask yourself whether it is more important to have your paper published in that journal or simply to have your paper published. A rejection will mean that you must reformat the article for a new journal and go through the review process again. Finally, if you have any remaining questions about a particular journal, contact the journal office. Journal editors are sometimes willing to discuss the suitability of a paper before it is submitted.
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