Table 2. Cancer journals included in the PRE-study and in the POST-study.
| Journal (alphabetical order) |
PRE-study | POST-study | Impact factor† 2012 |
Publication of REMARK | Author instructed to adhere to REMARK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N assessed articles | N assessed articles* | 02/2009‡ | 08/2014 | |||||
| BCRT | - | - | ✓ | 10/10 | 4.5 | YES [38] | YES [42] | YES |
| BJC | - | - | ✓ | 10/10 | 5.1 | YES [33] | UNK | YES |
| Canc | ✓ | 10 | ✓ | 6/6 | 5.2 | NO | NO | NO |
| CaRes | ✓ | 10 | - | -§ | 8.6 | NO | NO | NO |
| CCR | ✓ | 10 | ✓ | 10/10 | 7.8 | NO | YES | YES |
| IJC | ✓ | 10 | ✓ | 7/7 | 6.2 | NO | NO | NO |
| JCO | ✓ | 10 | ✓ | 10/10 | 18.0 | YES [35] | YES | YES |
* N citing group/n not-citing group
† source: InCitesTM Journal Citation Reports
‡ check was done within the PRE-study
§journal was excluded because only one eligible article citing REMARK was identified; UNK = unknown.