World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Nature Cancer
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Nature Cancer

2662-1347

Published by: Springer

https://www.nature.com/natcancer/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 51 548 349 90

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1162
Documents by Best Scientists*: 559
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 63
SCIMAGO H-index: 81
SCIMAGO SJR: 11.941
Impact Factor: 28.5

Top Publications

  • Cancer vaccines: the next immunotherapy frontier

    Unknown

    (2022)
    808 Citations
  • Discovering the anti-cancer potential of non-oncology drugs by systematic viability profiling.

    Steven M. Corsello;Steven M. Corsello;Rohith T. Nagari;Ryan D. Spangler;Jordan Rossen

    (2020)
    631 Citations
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care.

    Mike Richards;Michael Anderson;Paul Carter;Benjamin L. Ebert

    (2020)
    598 Citations
  • Pan-cancer image-based detection of clinically actionable genetic alterations

    Jakob Nikolas Kather;Jakob Nikolas Kather;Lara R. Heij;Lara R. Heij;Heike I. Grabsch;Heike I. Grabsch;Chiara Loeffler

    (2020)
    596 Citations
  • Circulating tumor DNA and liquid biopsy in oncology

    David W. Cescon;Scott V. Bratman;Steven M. Chan;Lillian L. Siu

    (2020)
    433 Citations
  • A human breast cancer-derived xenograft and organoid platform for drug discovery and precision oncology

    (2022)
    357 Citations
  • Molecular pathogenesis and systemic therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma

    (2022)
    356 Citations
  • PD-L1 expression by dendritic cells is a key regulator of T-cell immunity in cancer

    Soyoung A. Oh;Dai-Chen Wu;Jeanne Cheung;Armando Navarro

    (2020)
    345 Citations
  • Multimodal mapping of the tumor and peripheral blood immune landscape in human pancreatic cancer

    Nina G. Steele;Eileen S. Carpenter;Samantha B. Kemp;Veerin R. Sirihorachai

    (2020)
    343 Citations
  • Personalized circulating tumor DNA analysis as a predictive biomarker in solid tumor patients treated with pembrolizumab

    Scott V. Bratman;Scott V. Bratman;S. Y. Cindy Yang;S. Y. Cindy Yang;Marco A. J. Iafolla;Marco A. J. Iafolla;Zhihui Liu;Zhihui Liu

    (2020)
    333 Citations

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