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Founded in 1907, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the world's first and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research and its mission to prevent and cure cancer. AACR membership includes more than 48,000 laboratory, translational, and clinical researchers; population scientists; other health care professionals; and patient advocates residing in 127 countries. The AACR marshals the full spectrum of expertise of the cancer community to accelerate progress in the prevention, biology, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer by annually convening more than 30 conferences and educational workshops, the largest of which is the AACR Annual Meeting with more than 74,000 attendees for the 2020 virtual meetings and more than 22,500 attendees for past in-person meetings. In addition, the AACR publishes ten prestigious,peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Cancer Research Communications a recently launched, open access journal that encompasses the full spectrum of research on cancer.

AACR Journal Metrics

The scientific breadth and top quality of the journals attract the premier researchers in the field, and the AACR journals* continue to be rated among the most influential journals in cancer research and medicine, according to Clarivate Web of Science Journal Citation Reports^™ (JCR) 2020:

• 4 of the AACR journals rank in the top 7% in the world in the Oncology category^*
• AACR journals represent 3% of all of the journals in the Oncology category but receive 14% of all citations, worldwide^*
• Cancer Discovery ranks 6th in the Oncology category, with its fifth Impact Factor of 26.370^*

^*According to Journal Citation Reports; Clarivate Analytics 2019.

Journal	Impact Factor
Cancer Discovery	39.397
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention	4.254
Cancer Immunology Research	11.151
Cancer Prevention Research	3.491
Cancer Research	12.701
Clinical Cancer Research	12.531
Molecular Cancer Research	5.852
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics	6.261
*Blood Cancer Discovery, and Cancer Research Communications, the latest AACR Journals, have not published long enough to have received an Impact Factor.
With thousands of institutional subscribers and individual cancer researchers worldwide accessing this content, AACR's peer-reviewed journals are a proven choice for your patrons' cancer research information needs. For more detailed metrics, including the 5-Year Impact Factor, Eigenfactor, and Immediacy Index, please visit the AACR Journals Metrics page.

Commitment to Dissemination of Content

AACR is committed to the dissemination of content through:

• Development and support of the Principles for Free Access to Science, emphasizing the commitment of not-for-profit publishers to worldwide dissemination of science, within the context of proven and realistic publishing models, and supporting experimentation with new models.
• Participation in the HINARI Access to Research Initiative providing free or discounted access to the full text journal content to institutions in developing countries.
• Free archival access to historical material dating back to 1916 from the precursors of Cancer Research—Journal of Cancer Research and the American Journal of Cancer Research, representing nearly 100 years of oncology research and development.
• Availability of full text to all articles one year after publication.
• Our AuthorChoice program that makes articles freely available online immediately upon publication.

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