Table 2.
Number of articles per journal, citation count, Altmetric Attention Score and impact factor for oncology articles in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
| Oncology articles | Publication year |
p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | ||
| n = 90 | n = 100 | n = 100 | ||
| Articles per journal (n) | ||||
| NEJM | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Clinical Cancer Research | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Lancet Oncology | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| JNCI | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Journal of Clinical Oncology | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Annals of Surgical Oncology | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Annals of Oncology | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Cancer | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Cancer Discovery | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| JAMA Oncology | 0 | 10 | 10 | |
| Citation count (median [range]) | 394.50 [95.00, 2269.00] | 285.50 [73.00, 3283.00] | 133.00 [29.00, 1247.00] | <0.001 |
| Altmetric Attention Score (median [range]) | 33.00 [0.00, 541.00] | 43.00 [0.00, 2708.00] | 84.50 [0.00, 5154.00] | 0.004 |
| Impact factor of the journal (median [range]) | 15.16 [3.94, 54.42] | 16.19 [4.04, 72.41] | 17.53 [3.86, 79.26] | 0.015 |
NEJM = New England Journal of Medicine, JNCI = Journal of the National Cancer Institute, JCO = Journal of Clinical Oncology.