Nature Reviews Cancer

Papers
(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Cancer is 78. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linking pancreatic renewal and cancer initiation1529
Computing brain metastasis impact1086
Digging for treasures in the tumour interactome920
INVADEseq to study the intratumoural microbiota at host single-cell resolution563
An inhospitable site528
Combining spatial transcriptomics and AI to enhance brain tumour diagnosis494
Convergent inducers and effectors of T cell paralysis in the tumour microenvironment373
Oncofetal reprogramming in tumour development and progression353
Fructose takes a detour to feed cancer352
Emerging strategies to investigate the biology of early cancer336
Artificial intelligence in cancer research, diagnosis and therapy303
Combinatorial strategies to target RAS-driven cancers298
Mapping the prostate cell family tree292
How medical anthropology can contribute to cancer research292
Author Correction: Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma291
Connie J. Eaves (1944–2024)270
The recruitment of metastasis-associated monocytes268
Antihistamines boost immunotherapy263
Fighting cancer with fat257
Reply to ‘Heterogeneity of TP53 mutations necessitates differentiation with p53-rescue therapies’251
Translating premalignant biology to accelerate non-small-cell lung cancer interception239
The role of CRAF in cancer progression: from molecular mechanisms to precision therapies236
Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel229
Epithelial and stromal co-evolution and complicity in pancreatic cancer228
Tertiary lymphoid structures as hubs of antitumour immunity214
Context-dependent functions of pattern recognition receptors in cancer209
Targeting transcription cycles in cancer208
No mutation, tumour initiation208
Impersonating neurons191
Nanoreceptors take down mutant p53186
Under pressure186
Gut microbes produce novel genotoxic metabolites179
Tumour EVPs disrupt liver function177
Dendritic cells rise and shine176
Removing barriers to address sex differences in anticancer drug toxicity175
Persistence is key174
Thelpers? More like Ttroublemakers167
AACR 2025166
Measuring HLA disruption using MHC Hammer161
Defining a ‘cells to society’ research framework for appendiceal tumours159
Moonlighting functions of glucose metabolic enzymes and metabolites in cancer155
Remodelling of the tumour microenvironment by the kallikrein-related peptidases154
3D bioprinted cancer models: from basic biology to drug development152
How chemokines organize the tumour microenvironment149
Tumour–host interactions through the lens of Drosophila148
Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy146
Points of entry for tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes142
B-ring sterols to the rescue141
Bone voyage: immune crosstalk sets sail139
Identifying spatial cellular structures with SPACE-GM127
In-depth organoid profiling of pancreatic cancer122
Visualizing intratumoural heterogeneity with EpicMIBI120
Metabolic interplays between the tumour and the host shape the tumour macroenvironment116
Regulatory T cells in the tumour microenvironment114
Environmental endocrine disruptors: rethinking the origins of early-onset ER+ breast cancer109
The path to leptomeningeal metastasis107
Un-Fair Skin: racial disparities in acral melanoma research105
Leveraging the replication stress response to optimize cancer therapy101
Linking cell mechanical memory and cancer metastasis100
The plasticity of mRNA translation during cancer progression and therapy resistance100
Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy97
Understanding and addressing race disparities in childhood cancer outcomes95
In situ decellularization of tissues to resolve the tumour-associated matrix95
Encoding spatial tumour dynamics with Starfysh94
Deciphering the cancer genome and epigenome91
Race influences the tumour microbiome91
The link between vitamin D and prostate cancer91
Taming TAMs in brain metastases91
Polygenic scores in cancer90
Targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy89
Don’t blame the messenger: lessons learned for cancer mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic88
Cancer nanomedicine87
RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer87
Acetyl-CoA metabolism in cancer86
Z-nucleic acids give immunotherapy a boost84
Local CAR manufacturing83
Author Correction: Antibody-based proteomics: fast-tracking molecular diagnostics in oncology81
Parity modulates epithelial–immune cell communication78
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