''Oncotarget'' is a primarily oncology-focused,
peer-reviewed
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,
open access
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journal. The journal was established in 2010 and is published by Impact Journals. The
editors-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
are
Mikhail Blagosklonny and Andrei V. Gudkov.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
Index Medicus
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/
MEDLINE
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/
PubMed
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and
Scopus
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.
In 2022, it was re-indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE
after being dropped in 2017.
In 2018
Clarivate
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delisted the journal from the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'' and all of its other products because "the journal no longer meets the standards necessary for continued coverage", despite having listed the journal as a "Rising Star from Essential Science Indicators" only a few months prior.
Reception
The peer review process employed by the journal has been criticized by
Jeffrey Beall
Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian and library scientist, best known for drawing attention to "predatory open access publishing", a term he coined, and for creating what is now widely known as Beall's list, a list of potentially predatory op ...
,
[
----] a university librarian and expert on
predatory open access publishing
Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing or deceptive publishing, is an exploitative academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy, and withou ...
, who also included the journal on his list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals" in July 2015.
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References
External links
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