Table 3.

The top 10 journals with most citations per paper per year in CSCs between 1997 and 2023.

Journals	Paper number	Top-paper number	TPR*	Total citations	ACI	Citation per paper per year	IF (2023)
Nature	51	16	31.4%	52,194	1023.4	75.7	64.8
Cell	37	11	29.7%	28,103	759.5	64.6	64.5
Nature reviews cancer	27	8	29.6%	18,463	683.8	56.9	78.5
Cancer cell	53	8	15.1%	24,082	454.4	41.5	50.3
Cell stem cell	72	8	11.1%	28,703	398.7	38.9	23.9
PNAS	91	8	8.8%	37,422	411.2	29.8	11.1
Oncogene	73	2	2.7%	18,963	259.8	25.4	8.0
Molecular cancer	37	1	2.7%	7267	196.4	24.5	37.3
Oncotarget	51	1	2%	9211	180.6	22.5	N
Cancer research	184	13	7.1%	55,003	298.9	22.1	11.2

^*Percentage of top-papers among all papers with more than 100 citations in CSCs in a journal.