Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention and Challenges Facing in its 18th Year of Publishing
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As the APJCP steps in its 18th year of serving cancer scientists in Asia and Pacific region, the need to look back and examine past strategies is a must. After going through lows of losing Expanded Science Citation status (Moore, 2015) and reaching to the verge of losing PubMed listing (Mosavi Jarrahi, 2016), the journal is now in a stable situation to plan for its future. The journal citation performance based on online portals (Scopus, 2016; SCImago, 2007; Scopus 2017) is in an acceptable state; in 2015, APJCP’s H-index ranked 47 among 322 cancer-related journals worldwide. This figure was higher than the median H-index for all cancer-related journals (median 27). The APJCP’s SCImago Journal Rank or SJR (defined as the average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents published in the selected journal in the three previous years) for 2015 was 0.85. This figure was close to the median figure reported for journals published in Western Europe ( median of 0.85) and lower than the median SJR for journals of the same category in the region of North America (median of 1.07). In 2015, the Source Normalized Impact per Publication indicator (SNIPcalculated as the number of citations given in the present year to publications in the past three years divided by the total number of publications in the past three years) for APJCP was 0.87. This is slightly higher than the median for all cancer-related journals that was 0.79. The Impact Per Publication (IPP) was 2.06 for APJCP while this indicator’s median for all cancer-related journals was 2.04. APJCP performed very poorly when it came to the percent of publication with no citation (27.02%) and self-citation (36.2%). Since, November 2016 when the new editorial team took the full responsibility of the journal, many steps have been taken and now the journal is in a stable situation (it has been publishing timely, efficient editorial management system calibrated, funding and financial sources established, and a new team of editorials and staffs is in placed). Despite the steps taken, still, there are many challenges facing APJCP. At the current state of the journal, the editorial team has prioritized three goals to address the achieve; 1) to claim the Journals’ indexing status in the EDITORIAL
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