OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Liver Cancer

Aims and Scope

Liver cancer has a very high prevalence among cancers in general and is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. Based on these facts, the journal Liver Cancer serves the growing need to better understand the causes, mechanisms and therapy of the malignancy. It provides the international community of researchers and clinicians with a platform for their research results, focusing on molecular carcinogenesis, prevention, surveillance, diagnosis and treatment, including molecular targeted therapy, of the disease. Liver Cancer publishes clinical and translational research related to the field of liver cancer in both humans and experimental models in the form of original and review articles.

Bibliographic Details

  • Liver Cancer
  • Journal Abbreviation: Liver Cancer
  • ISSN: 2235-1795 (Print)
  • e-ISSN: 1664-5553 (Online)
  • DOI: 10.1159/issn.1664-5553
  • www.karger.com/LIC

Indexing/Abstracting

Listed in bibliographic services, including:

  • PubMed | US National Library of Medicine
  • PubMed Central | US National Library of Medicine
  • Web of Science | Clarivate Analytics
  • Science Citation Index | Clarivate Analytics
  • Science Citation Index Expanded | Clarivate Analytics
  • Google Scholar | Google
  • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Chemical Abstracts Service | American Chemical Society
  • Scopus | Elsevier
  • Embase | Elsevier
  • Pathway Studio | Elsevier
  • WorldCat | OCLC

Journal Metrics

  • LIC is also indexed in DOAJ
  • Impact Factor: 9.720 (2019)
  • CiteScore: 10.000 (2019)

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

  • Masatoshi Kudo – Kindai University, Osaka, Japan

Associate Editors

  • Stephen L. Chan – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Pei-Jer Chen – National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Ann-Lii Cheng – National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Pierce Chow – Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • Laura Dawson – University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Jia Fan – Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • Rita Golfieri – University of Bologna, Bologna Italy
  • Yujin Hoshida – The University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
  • Kwang-Hyub Han – Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • Namiki Izumi – Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • Norihiro Kokudo – National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
  • Riccardo Lencioni – Pisa University School of Medicine, Pisa, Italy
  • Tim Meyer – University College London, London, UK
  • Jeong Min Lee – Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • Young Nyun Park – Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Jens Ricke – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
  • Lewis R. Roberts – Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
  • Michiie Sakamoto – Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
  • Myron Schwartz – The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA
  • Jean Nicolas Vauthey – University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
  • Augusto Villanueva – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
  • Arndt Vogel – Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
  • Sheng-Long Ye – Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • Andrew X. Zhu – Jiahui International Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Editorial Board Members

  • Jacques Belghiti – Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, France
  • See Ching Chan – Queen Mary Hospital University, Hong Kong, China
  • Laura Crocetti – University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  • Alessandro Cucchetti – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • Richard S. Finn – University of California at Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA, USA
  • Francesca Fornari – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • Junji Furuse – Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan
  • Liana Gheorghe – Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania
  • Kiyoshi Hasegawa – The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • Etsuro Hatano – Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Massimo Iavarone – University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • Masafumi Ikeda – National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan
  • Yasuharu Imai – Ikeda Municipal Hospital, Osaka, Japan
  • Aparna Kalyan – Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Masayuki Kanematsu – Gifu University Hospital, Gifu, Japan
  • Xiao-Jie Lu, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
  • Irene Oi-lin Ng – The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Naoshi Nishida – Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
  • Kazuhiro Nouso – Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
  • Fabio Piscaglia – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • Toshiharu Sakurai – Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
  • Peter Schemmer – Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
  • Jinsil Seong – Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  • Wolfgang Sieghart – Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • Ryosuke Tateishi – The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • Guido Torzilli – Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
  • Kaoru Tsuchiya – Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • Kazuomi Ueshima – Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
  • Maria Varela – Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
  • Jean Nicolas Vauthey – University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
  • Chris Verslype – University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • Arndt Weinmann – Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
  • Tatsuya Yamashita – Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan