Aims and Scope
- Journal
- Journal of Cervical Cancer
- ISSN
- 2997-2108
- Access
- Open access
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub
What the journal publishes
Journal of Cervical Cancer publishes peer-reviewed research across the full course of cervical cancer — biology and pathogenesis, human papillomavirus and other etiologic factors, prevention and vaccination, screening and early detection, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and outcomes — in laboratory, clinical and population research.
Work is eligible on the strength of its connection to that subject. The journal does not ask a manuscript to span the whole course of the disease, to carry molecular novelty, or to demonstrate immediate clinical application; a study that answers one well-posed question within the remit is within scope.
The journal’s published record illustrates the remit rather than defining its edge. Areas the archive has not yet covered remain open to submission.
Where the subject is studied
These areas overlap, and a manuscript may sit across several of them. They describe where the work is done, not an order in which it must be done.
Virology and molecular pathogenesis
Human papillomavirus biology, genotype distribution and persistence; viral oncogene function and host interaction; cellular transformation, genomic and epigenetic change; tumor biology, the microenvironment and the model systems used to study them.
Prevention and vaccination
Vaccine effectiveness, coverage and delivery; determinants of uptake; primary prevention in defined populations and the evidence used to evaluate it.
Screening, triage and early detection
Screening strategies and intervals, cytology, HPV testing and triage, diagnostic assessment and histopathology; test and program performance, and management of precancerous lesions.
Treatment, survivorship and outcomes
Surgical, radiotherapeutic, systemic and supportive management; recurrence and late effects; quality of life, survivorship care and the outcomes against which each is evaluated.
Epidemiology, health services and implementation
Incidence, determinants and disparities; health-services, implementation and policy research on how prevention and care are organized and delivered, where the work is substantively connected to cervical cancer.
How fit is judged
Four questions are asked of every submission, in this order.
Subject
A manuscript is in scope when its question is substantively about cervical cancer or the disease process leading to it. That connection is what the journal assesses first.
Design
Laboratory, clinical, epidemiological, health-services, implementation and methodological studies are all eligible. A study is read against what its own design can support.
Evidence
The standard of evidence follows the claim a manuscript actually makes. A mechanistic result, a program evaluation and a clinical outcome each carry their own requirements.
Reporting
Methods, sample, analysis and limitations are reported with the result, so that a reader from another part of the field can judge what the work establishes.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
What may be submitted
The journal accepts seven routine manuscript types. A routine submission must meet both tests: its question is substantively about cervical cancer or the disease process leading to it, and it is prepared as one of the seven types the journal accepts.
Research Article
Original studies reporting primary results, from laboratory, clinical, epidemiological, health-services or implementation research.
Review Article
A critical synthesis of published work on a defined question, making clear what the evidence supports and where it is unsettled.
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
A review conducted to a pre-specified protocol, with an explicit search, selection and appraisal strategy, and a quantitative synthesis where the data allow one.
Methods Article
A method, assay, instrument, model system or analytical approach, reported with the validation that establishes what it can measure.
Data/Resource Article
A dataset, cohort, registry, biobank or other research resource, described so that others can judge its provenance and reuse it.
Short Communication
A concise report of a single finding or observation that stands on its own.
Case Report
An individual case or small series with clinical or diagnostic significance, reported with the consent and ethics documentation the journal requires.
By invitation
Editorial and Perspective/Commentary are published by invitation. They are not routine submission types, and the editorial office commissions them directly.
Editorial
Commissioned by the editors to introduce an issue or address a matter before the field.
Perspective/Commentary
Commissioned discussion of a published article, a method, or a question in the field.
Where the boundary falls
Oncology and human papillomavirus research reaches well beyond this journal. Work on other cancers, or on HPV in disease processes other than cervical, belongs in this journal when it carries a substantive cervical-cancer connection — a shared mechanism under examination, a comparison that bears on cervical disease, or a population in whom cervical outcomes are measured.
Authors who are unsure whether a question fits are invited to describe it to the editorial office at [email protected] before preparing a full manuscript.
Where to go next
- Instructions for AuthorsPreparation requirements to read before writing a submission.
- Editorial PoliciesReview, ethics, integrity and correction policies in full.
- Call for PapersWhat the journal is inviting across the remit.
- Submit PaperThe approved submission routes and what each one is for.