This fall marks ASTRO's Advances in Radiation Oncology's eighth year of publishing. The journal continues to grow in readership. Our CiteScore continues to increase over prior years and is currently 4.5 (Fig. 1). Advances received its first impact this year with a value of 2.3.
Figure 1.
Advances’ CiteScore value and percentage ranking among peer journals.
Advances was commissioned in 2015 as a complementary journal to provide a forum for quality research in addition to the Red Journal and PRO, which have a finite number of pages available to publish articles. Figure 2 shows the relative positioning of each of ASTRO's journals in relation to the others. As always, Advances remains freely available to the global oncology community and our patients and their advocates.
Figure 2.
Scope of the ASTRO journals.
We currently are seeking critical review articles. However, review articles of interest to the general readership of Advances are also of interest. Potential authors can submit a “presubmission inquiry” for review through the Advances manuscript system.
Figure 4.
Robert Miller, MD, MBA, editor in chief, and Jillian Tsai, MD, PhD, deputy editor in chief.
Our most downloaded paper (Fig. 3) at this time is a paper on delineation of target volumes using magnetic resonance imaging from Paczona et al1 and is included in this collection.1 Also included in this special print edition are two other manuscripts focusing on treatment planning and delivery. Schiff et al2 report on a novel simulation-free approach to expediting palliative radiation therapy administration. Orton and colleagues3 present a practical contouring strategy for delineating small bowel encompassing both the abdominal and pelvic spaces. Also included is a review of the safety and tolerability of metastasis-directed radiation therapy by Guimond et al.4
Figure 3.
Top downloads in Advances in the 90 days before June 2023.
Advances is committed to diversity and inclusion on the editorial team.
Disclosures
Robert C. Miller and C. Jillian Tsai report income from ASTRO.
Footnotes
Sources of support: This work had no specific funding.
All data come from freely available public Internet sites and are referenced.
References
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