Current Cancer Drug Targets is a peer-reviewed medical journal

Medical journal

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 published by Bentham Science Publishers

Bentham Science Publishers

Bentham Science Publishers is a publishing company of scientific, technical, and medical literature based at Sharjah. Bentham publishes more than 106 subscription-based academic journals and over 230 open access journals and e-books....

. The editor-in-chief is John K. Buolamwini (University of Tennessee Health Science Center

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis includes the Colleges of Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. Its pediatric residency program is affiliated with Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center and residents in pediatrics,...

). The journal covers research on contemporary molecular drug targets involved in cancer

Cancer

Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

, including medicinal chemistry

Medicinal chemistry

Medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry are disciplines at the intersection of chemistry, especially synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmacology and various other biological specialties, where it is involved with design, chemical synthesis and development for market of pharmaceutical...

, pharmacology

Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

, molecular biology

Molecular biology

Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

, genomics

Genomics

Genomics is a discipline in genetics concerning the study of the genomes of organisms. The field includes intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of organisms and fine-scale genetic mapping efforts. The field also includes studies of intragenomic phenomena such as heterosis,...

, and biochemistry

Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

. Current Cancer Drug Targets publishes original research reports, review papers and rapid communications ("letters").

Abstracting and indexing

Current Cancer Drug Targets is indexed in the following databases:

• Chemical Abstracts Service/CASSI
  Chemical Abstracts Service
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• EMBASE
  EMBASE
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• EMBiology
  EMBiology
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• MEDLINE
  MEDLINE
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• Science Citation Index Expanded
  Science Citation Index
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• Scopus
  Scopus
  Scopus, officially named SciVerse Scopus, is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 18,000 titles from over 5,000 international publishers, including coverage of 16,500 peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical,...
  
  

According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

of 4.771, ranking it 37th of 184 journals in the category "Oncology".