{{Infobox journal | title = Oncotarget | cover = | former_name = | abbreviation = Oncotarget | discipline = Oncology | language = | editor = Mikhail Blagosklonny, Andrei V. Gudkov | publisher = Impact Journals | country = | history = 2010–present | frequency = Continuous Publication | openaccess = Yes | license = Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License | impact = | impact-year = | ISSN = | eISSN = 1949-2553 | CODEN = | JSTOR = | LCCN = | OCLC = 408119940 | website = http://www.oncotarget.com/ | link1 = http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=oncotarget&page=issue&op=archive | link1-name = Online archive | link2 = | link2-name = }} '''''Oncotarget''''' is a primarily oncology-focused, peer-reviewed, open access journal. The journal was established in 2010 and is published by Impact Journals. The editors-in-chief are Mikhail Blagosklonny and Andrei V. Gudkov.
==Abstracting and indexing== The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed<ref name=MEDLINE>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101532965 |title=Oncotarget |work=NLM Catalog |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information |accessdate=2016-04-19}}</ref> and Scopus.<ref name=Scopus>{{cite web |url=https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19900191708 |title=Source details: Oncotarget |publisher=Elsevier |work=Scopus preview |accessdate=2018-01-27}}</ref> In 2022, it was re-indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Journals Recently Accepted for Inclusion in MEDLINE |url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medline/medline_new_titles.html |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=www.nlm.nih.gov}}</ref> after being dropped in 2017.<ref name="rw17">{{cite web |date=October 25, 2017 |title=Widely used U.S. government database delists cancer journal |url=http://retractionwatch.com/2017/10/25/widely-used-u-s-government-database-delists-cancer-journal/ |work=Retraction Watch |accessdate=October 25, 2017}}</ref><ref name="TS">{{cite magazine |last=Zimmer |first=Katarina |date=October 26, 2017 |title=''Oncotarget'' Journal Cut from Medline |url=http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50751/title/Oncotarget-Journal-Cut-from-Medline/ |magazine=The Scientist}}</ref><ref name=MEDLINE /> In 2018 Clarivate delisted the journal from the ''Journal Citation Reports'' 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"<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-10-18 |title=Rising Stars from Essential Science Indicators |publisher=Clarivate Analytics |url=https://clarivate.com/blog/science-research-connect/rising-stars-essential-science-indicators/ |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> only a few months prior.<ref name="clarivate">{{Cite news|date=2018-01-19|title=Indexing company praises cancer journal, then kicks it out|work=Retraction Watch|url=http://retractionwatch.com/2018/01/19/indexing-company-praises-cancer-journal-kicks/|access-date=2018-01-20}}</ref>
==Reception== The peer review process employed by the journal has been criticized by Jeffrey Beall,<ref name="Beall">{{cite web|url=https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/04/19/oncotargets-peer-review-is-highly-questionable/|title=Oncotarget's Peer Review is Highly Questionable|last1=Beall|first1=Jeffrey|authorlink1=Jeffrey Beall|date=19 April 2016|website=Scholarly Open Access|publisher=WordPress.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420033752/https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/04/19/oncotargets-peer-review-is-highly-questionable/|archivedate=20 April 2016|accessdate=19 April 2016}} ----{{Cite web|url=http://kscien.org/view.php?id=45|title=Oncotarget's Peer Review is Highly Questionable (Jeffrey Beall|last=|first=|date=|website=KSCIEN|type=Reprint of Beall's blog post|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 Dec 2019}}</ref> a university librarian and expert on predatory open access publishing, who also included the journal on his list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals" in July 2015.<ref name=Beall/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Beall |first1=Jeffrey |authorlink1=Jeffrey Beall |title=LIST OF STANDALONE JOURNALS: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals |url=https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/ |website=Scholarly Open Access |publisher=WordPress.com |accessdate=19 April 2016 |date=16 April 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202192038/https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/|archivedate=2 December 2016}}</ref> Allegedly, journal editor Mikhail Blagosklonny responded by threatening to retract the papers of Beall's colleagues at the University of Colorado.<ref name=rw17/><ref name=TS/>
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==External links== * {{Official website}}
Category:Oncology journals Category:Academic journals established in 2010 Category:English-language journals Category:Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals Category:Biweekly journals Category:Continuous journals