Journal of Cancer Prevention's 2026 Journal Metrics Score is 1.8, ranking Q2 in Surgery. Two-year citation average from OpenAlex data, updated August 2026.
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Journal Metrics Score 2026 · 2021–2024 window citedness 2.10.
Middle 50%: 27–92 days
41 of 41 PubMed-indexed articles · 100% coverage · 2024–2025
Journal of Cancer Prevention accepts papers a median of 71 days after submission, including peer review and revisions. That is faster than 85% of comparable journals with PubMed timing data.
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10 of 107 works · same type, year & subfield
0 works · same type, year & subfield
Below field-year expectation
of 4,486 topic-associated OpenAlex sources by lifetime output
FWCI compares papers with the same publication year, type, and field. 1.0 is the world average; above 1.0 is above expectation. This journal's median is 0.66, so its typical recent paper runs about 34% below its field benchmark.
9.3% of recent papers rank in the global top 10% after field normalization. This is easier to compare across specialties than raw citation totals.
Volume is separated from citation accumulation so newer papers are not presented as weaker simply because they are newer.
OpenAlex source records · 2016–2025
107 OpenAlex works · 2021–2024
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| Category | Quartile |
|---|---|
| Surgery | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | Q3 |
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Journal of Cancer Prevention's 2026 Journal Metrics Score is 1.8, from the August 2026 data release. The score is a two-year citation average computed from OpenAlex (CC0) data: citations received in the most recent complete year to works published in the two prior years, divided by the number of those works.
Journal of Cancer Prevention's best quartile is Q2. By OpenAlex subfield: Q2 in Surgery; Q3 in Molecular Biology. Quartiles rank journals by Journal Metrics Score within each subfield.
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Journal of Cancer Prevention accepts papers a median of 71 days after submission across 41 recent PubMed records with both dates; the middle half took 27–92 days. This includes peer review, editorial handling, and revisions.
PubMed records when a manuscript was received and accepted, not the individual review stages, so peer review time on its own is not available. The full time from submission to acceptance at Journal of Cancer Prevention, which includes peer review and revisions, has a median of 71 days. For the time to a first decision, check the journal's own website.
Journal of Cancer Prevention's median of 71 days from submission to acceptance is faster than 85% of comparable journals with PubMed timing data.
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