Cancer Biomarkers

Impact Factor
2023
3.1
CiteScore
2023
6.1

Volume

36-38, 12 issues

Latest issue

39:2 online 27 February 2024

Next issue

39:3 scheduled for March 2024

Back volumes

From volume 1, 2005

ISSN print

1574-0153

ISSN online

1875-8592
Open Access
Online Only

Aims & Scope

Concentrating on molecular biomarkers in cancer research, Cancer Biomarkers publishes original research findings and reviews solicited by the editor on the subject of the identification of markers associated with the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer whether or not they are an integral part of the pathological lesion. The disease markers may include, but are not limited to, genomic, epigenomic, proteomic, cellular and morphologic, and genetic risk factors predisposing to the disease or indicating the occurrence of the disease. Manuscripts on these risk factors or biomarkers, either in altered forms, abnormal concentrations or with abnormal tissue distribution leading to disease causation, will be accepted. Data science, artificial intelligence, radiomics, and other molecular approaches, such as bulk and single cell genomic sequence analyses for biomarkers discovery, development, and validation in reference to cancer prevention and treatment, will also be accepted.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Sudhir Srivastava, PhD, MPH
c/o IOS Press, Inc.
6751 Tepper Drive, Clifton
USA
Fax: +1 703 830 2300
Email: CBM_peerreview at iospress.com

Associate Editors

Karen S. Anderson, MD, PhD
Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
USA

Liming Cheng, PhD
Tongji Medical College
China

Ajay Goel, PhD, AGAF
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA
USA

Sam Hanash, MD, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
USA

Kazufumi Honda, PhD
Nippon Medical School, Tokyo
Japan

Li Jiang, MD, PhD
Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital
China

Anna Lokshin, PhD
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
USA

YingYing Lu, MD, PhD
Comprehensive Liver Cancer Center
China

Lei Wang, PhD
National Center for Human Genetic Resources
China

Zhen Zhang, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
USA

Lei Zheng, MD, PhD
Southern Medical University, Guangzhou
China

Statistical Editors

Ziding Feng, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
USA

Steven J. Skates, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
USA

Senior Editorial Board

Timothy M. Block, PhD
Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
USA

Roger Chammas, MD, PhD
University of São Paulo, Instituto do Câncer
Brazil
    
Claudia Bessa P. Chaves, MD, PhD
Brazilian National Cancer Institute
Brazil

Alexander Borowsky, MD
UC Davis Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
USA

Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
USA

Xiaohong Han, MD
Beijing Key Laboratory of Clinical Study on Anticancer Molecular Targeted Drugs
China

Tony Hu, PhD
Arizona State University
USA

Aija Linē, PhD
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre
Latvia

Cesar Lopez-Camarillo, PhD
Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico
Mexico

Patrick Nasarre, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina
USA

Norbert Nass, PhD
Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, University Hospital Brandenburg an der Havel
Germany

Cheng Peng, PhD
University of Queensland
Australia

Wenxin Qin, PhD
Shanghai Cancer Institute
China

Karin D. Rodland, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University
USA
    
John Semmes, PhD
Eastern Virginia Medical School
USA

Editorial Board

Manisha Bahl, MD, MPH, FSBI
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
USA

Yoganand Balagurunathan, PhD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
USA

Leonora Balaj, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
USA

Wei-Min Chang, PhD
Taipei Medical University
Taiwan

Richard J. Cote, MD
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
USA

Shubham Dutta, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
USA

Amit Gupta, PhD
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
India

Jyoti Kode, PhD
Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre
India

Minetta C. Liu, MD
Natera
USA

Tao Liu, PhD
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
USA

Bramanandam Manavathi, PhD
University of Hyderabad
India

Sarah Mazzilli, PhD
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
USA

Robert L. Moritz, PhD
Institute for Systems Biology
USA

Adrian O’Hara, PhD
Liverpool John Moores University
UK

John Charles Rotondo, PhD
Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara
Italy

Matthew B. Schabath, PhD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
USA

David Sidransky, MD
Johns Hopkins University
USA

Amit Singal, MD, MS
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
USA

Sanford Stass, MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
USA

Sebastien Taurin, PhD
Arabian Gulf University
Bahrain

Bechien U. Wu, MD, MPH
Center for Pancreatic Care, Division of Gastroenterology
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
USA

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The manuscript should be uploaded as one file with tables and figures included. Please use the journal's manuscript template. Acceptable file formats include Word document or LaTeX package; in case of large file size, a zip file can be uploaded.

Important note: We only accept submissions from institutional email addresses. Authors who do not have institutional email addresses will be contacted by the managing editor to provide an alternative proof of affiliation.

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Open Access Fee
Cancer Biomarkers is moving to an Open Access model in January 2024. Submitting authors are required to agree to the article processing charge for open access publication on submission. The default pricing is US$1500 / €1500 for a CC-BY NC 4.0 license. There is also an option to select the CC BY 4.0 license for US$2150 / €2150, which is required by certain funders. It could be that the open access fee of an article is waived completely due an institutional agreement IOS Press has with the corresponding authors' institution. Please check the institutional agreements page for details.

Waivers are available for corresponding authors from eligible countries as identified by the Research4Life project. Other authors who envisage difficulties paying the article processing charge may appeal to the editorial office to discuss waiving the charge prior to submitting their article. The corresponding author must notify the journal of their inability to pay the open access fee upon submission of the article. Appeals submitted after review will not be evaluated.

Please read full open access information here.

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Organization of the paper and style of presentation
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Abstract
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OBJECTIVE:
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RESULTS:
CONCLUSIONS:

Materials and Methods
Experimental subjects
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Acknowledgments
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REFERENCES

Place citations as numbers in square brackets in the text. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references at the end of the manuscript in the following style:

[1] B. Newman and E.T. Liu, Perspective on BRCA1, Breast Disease 10 (1998), 3-10.
[2] D.F. Pilkey, Happy conservation laws, in: Neural Stresses, J. Frost, ed., Controlled Press, Georgia, 1995, pp. 332-391.
[3] E. Wilson, Active vibration analysis of thin-walled beams, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1991.

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Tables
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Open Access

Gold open access pricing
From 2024 onwards Cancer Biomarkers has moved from its previous hybrid publication model to a true gold open access journal. Authors of accepted papers will be required to pay an open access fee of US$1500 / €1500 (ex. VAT if applicable) to publish under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license on acceptance for publication. Publishing under the CC BY 4.0 license is available at US$2150 / €2150 (ex. VAT if applicable). After an article is accepted for publication, the corresponding author will be informed regarding the open access options during the production stages. It could be that the open access fee of an article is waived completely due an institutional agreement IOS Press has with the corresponding authors' institution. Please check the institutional agreements page for details.

Waivers are available for corresponding authors from eligible countries as identified by the Research4Life project. Other authors who envisage difficulties paying the article processing charge may appeal to the editorial office to discuss waiving the charge prior to submitting their article. The corresponding author must notify the journal of their inability to pay the open access fee upon submission of the article. Appeals submitted after review will not be evaluated.

Articles published behind a paywall in the pre-2024 volumes are available only to institutions and individuals with access rights. However, the journal offers all authors the option to purchase open access publication for their article as part of the IOS Press Open Library, even after final publication. This means that the current version will be made freely available to anyone worldwide, indefinitely, under a Creative Commons license. Authors can purchase open access at any time through the order form link in their decision letter.

Green open access
Authors who did not make use of the gold open access option pre-2024 may still make their article freely available using self-archiving, also referred to as green open access. Authors may make their final accepted manuscript available for free download from their personal or institutional website or institutional archive. This model is free for the author.

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This journal deposits all open access articles in PubMedCentral (PMC) as part of the IOS Press Open Library. If an author chooses to publish their paper with open access then the publisher will deposit the article in PMC upon publication.

Peer Review Policy

Cancer Biomarkers is a peer-reviewed journal. Articles submitted to the journal undergo a single blind peer review process. This means that the identity of the authors is known to the reviewers but the identity of the reviewers is not communicated to the authors. Please visit our reviewer guidelines for further information about how to conduct a review.

After automatic plagiarism screening through iThenticate, all submitted manuscripts are subjected to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Reasons to reject a paper in the pre-screening process could for example be that the work does not fall within the aims and scope, the writing is of poor quality, the instructions to authors were not followed or the presented work is not novel.

Papers deemed suitable to be reviewed will be assigned to a handling editor. The handling editor will then invite reviewers to comment on the work. They might consider inviting the reviewers suggested by the author or not. Editors and reviewers are asked to excuse themselves from reviewing a submission if a conflict makes them unable to make an impartial scientific judgment or evaluation. Conflicts of interest include but are not limited to: collaboration with the authors in the past three years; any professional or financial affiliations that may be perceived as a conflict of interest; a history of personal differences with the author(s).

As a standard policy, decisions are based on three reviews, in some specific circumstances a minimum of two reviews may be deemed sufficient to make a decision on a paper. The Editor-in-Chief strives to ensure a typical turnaround time of 3 months.

Reviewers are asked to judge a paper on at least:

  • Significance to field
  • Relevance to journal
  • Methodology
  • Data analysis
  • Literature review
  • Writing style/clarity

Based on the received reviews the handling editor will propose to the Editor-in-Chief a recommendation:

  1. Accept
  2. Minor revisions required
  3. Major revisions required
  4. Reject

They mean the following:

  1. The manuscript is suitable for publication and only requires minor polishing; thus, no further reviews are requested.
  2. The authors are required to make moderate changes to their manuscript. The manuscript becomes acceptable for publication if the changes proposed by the reviewers and editors have been addressed satisfactorily. The revised manuscript will be examined by the Editor in Chief and possibly sent back to all (or a selection of) reviewers for a second round of reviews. Authors are requested to provide a letter to the reviewers detailing the improvements made for the resubmission.
  3. The manuscript cannot be accepted for publication in its current form. However, a major revision addressing all issues raised by the reviewers may be acceptable for publication. The revised manuscript will undergo a full second round of review. Authors are requested to provide a letter to the reviewers detailing the improvements made for the resubmission.
  4. The manuscript is rejected as it is deemed to be out of scope, not relevant, or not meeting the journal’s quality standards in terms of significance, novelty, and/or presentation.

Authors are notified by the Editor-in-Chief, whose decision is final.

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Call for Papers Announcement (Aug 2022) – A special issue is planned on “Single-Cell Proteomics Workflow for Cancer Research” (Guest Editor: Tao Liu, PhD) to showcase perspectives or research on state-of-the-art single-cell proteomics methods, platforms, computational tools, and relevant applications in cancer. Discover more here! (deadline for submission: Aug 1, 2023)

Special Issue Published – The latest special issue in Vol.33, Iss.4 (Apr 2022), on the topic "Collaboration Between US and Japan for the Early Detection of Cancer" (guest editor: Kazufumi Honda), is openly available until Oct 31, 2022. Read the issue newsletter here!

Presentation at IOS Press Symposium – The journal's Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Srivastava was one of the esteemed scholars who participated in the IOS Press 35th anniversary symposium on Mar 31, 2022 in Amsterdam. The focus of his presentation was the journal's history, current developments, and prospects, as well as more broadly the area of biomarkers research. Discover more here!

AI Special Issue – Discover this special issue on the topic "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Biomarker Research" (guest editor: Karin Rodland, PhD) in Vol.33, Iss.2 (Feb 2022), which was openly available until Aug 31, 2022. View background and testimonials here!

Journal Impact Factor – The latest Journal Citation Reports sees CBM's Impact Factor changing to 3.828 (Source Clarivate, 2022). The journal is listed in the Oncology category of Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).

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