Nature Reviews Cancer

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Cancer is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linking pancreatic renewal and cancer initiation1366
Computing brain metastasis impact1153
Digging for treasures in the tumour interactome961
INVADEseq to study the intratumoural microbiota at host single-cell resolution848
An inhospitable site509
Fructose takes a detour to feed cancer501
Emerging strategies to investigate the biology of early cancer467
Artificial intelligence in cancer research, diagnosis and therapy453
Combinatorial strategies to target RAS-driven cancers428
Convergent inducers and effectors of T cell paralysis in the tumour microenvironment407
Oncofetal reprogramming in tumour development and progression370
Mapping the prostate cell family tree369
How medical anthropology can contribute to cancer research324
Tertiary lymphoid structures as hubs of antitumour immunity312
Author Correction: Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma306
Connie J. Eaves (1944–2024)286
The recruitment of metastasis-associated monocytes280
Antihistamines boost immunotherapy271
Fighting cancer with fat264
Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel259
Translating premalignant biology to accelerate non-small-cell lung cancer interception252
Epithelial and stromal co-evolution and complicity in pancreatic cancer248
The role of CRAF in cancer progression: from molecular mechanisms to precision therapies246
Targeting transcription cycles in cancer240
Context-dependent functions of pattern recognition receptors in cancer235
No mutation, tumour initiation218
Impersonating neurons216
Under pressure214
Nanoreceptors take down mutant p53213
Moonlighting functions of glucose metabolic enzymes and metabolites in cancer208
Defining a ‘cells to society’ research framework for appendiceal tumours200
Measuring HLA disruption using MHC Hammer198
Remodelling of the tumour microenvironment by the kallikrein-related peptidases194
Gut microbes produce novel genotoxic metabolites191
Tumour EVPs disrupt liver function187
Dendritic cells rise and shine185
Removing barriers to address sex differences in anticancer drug toxicity179
Persistence is key172
Thelpers? More like Ttroublemakers171
Tumour–host interactions through the lens of Drosophila160
Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy155
3D bioprinted cancer models: from basic biology to drug development149
How chemokines organize the tumour microenvironment148
Cancer stem cell–immune cell crosstalk in tumour progression148
B-ring sterols to the rescue145
Points of entry for tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes145
In-depth organoid profiling of pancreatic cancer144
Identifying spatial cellular structures with SPACE-GM144
Bone voyage: immune crosstalk sets sail144
Visualizing intratumoural heterogeneity with EpicMIBI140
Leveraging the replication stress response to optimize cancer therapy135
Un-Fair Skin: racial disparities in acral melanoma research134
Metabolic interplays between the tumour and the host shape the tumour macroenvironment133
The path to leptomeningeal metastasis132
Linking cell mechanical memory and cancer metastasis131
Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy128
The plasticity of mRNA translation during cancer progression and therapy resistance120
In situ decellularization of tissues to resolve the tumour-associated matrix119
Deciphering the cancer genome and epigenome112
Encoding spatial tumour dynamics with Starfysh111
Understanding and addressing race disparities in childhood cancer outcomes111
Taming TAMs in brain metastases108
The link between vitamin D and prostate cancer106
Race influences the tumour microbiome106
Don’t blame the messenger: lessons learned for cancer mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic101
Targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy97
Polygenic scores in cancer95
Acetyl-CoA metabolism in cancer94
RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer92
Cancer nanomedicine88
Z-nucleic acids give immunotherapy a boost87
Local CAR manufacturing86
Parity modulates epithelial–immune cell communication82
Author Correction: Antibody-based proteomics: fast-tracking molecular diagnostics in oncology82
Right ON target: a new RAS-GTP inhibitor80
Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care80
A trojan horse to target spliceosome mutant cells79
Prime editing GEMMs to model cancer mutations76
Chromothripsis in cancer76
Defining precancer: a grand challenge for the cancer community74
Tertiary lymphoid structures in anticancer immunity73
Androgen receptor signalling in non-prostatic malignancies: challenges and opportunities73
Targeting ferroptosis as a vulnerability in cancer71
Starting a new job70
Glycogen condensates drive tumorigenesis by trapping Hippo kinases69
Quantum probes in cancer research66
Functional lineage tracing to study the clonal evolution of therapy resistance65
Neutrophils: a roadblock for immunotherapy65
In vivo labelling system to study cell neighbourhoods64
Revealing genomic secrets of archival FFPE samples64
Judith Campisi (1948–2024)63
New pathogen on the block60
The present and future of the Cancer Dependency Map60
Inferring cancer metabolism from gene-expression data60
Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data57
Immune-checkpoint inhibitor-mediated myocarditis: CTLA4, PD1 and LAG3 in the heart57
Cell states can give tumorigenesis a head start56
Carcinogenesis at single-cell resolution56
Microbiota links to immunotherapy toxicity55
Bidirectional CART.BiTE cells bring new hope52
Metastases arrive at other organs via bone52
Patient-derived organoids unveil sarcoma vulnerabilities52
Global post-mortem tissue donation programmes to accelerate cancer research51
Evolution and progression of Barrett’s oesophagus to oesophageal cancer50
Epigenomic heterogeneity as a source of tumour evolution50
Developing dietary interventions as therapy for cancer48
Transfer RNAs as dynamic and critical regulators of cancer progression45
A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology43
Author Correction: Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care42
Traject3d for studying 3D cellular heterogeneity42
We cannot ignore the cancer risks of wildfires40
Guardrails for the use of generalist AI in cancer care38
Harnessing the influenza virus to fight cancer36
Structural variations in cancer and the 3D genome34
Targeting cancer cell dormancy34
Immunogenic cell death in cancer: targeting necroptosis to induce antitumour immunity33
The immunological and metabolic landscape in primary and metastatic liver cancer32
mRNA-based cancer therapeutics32
The role of ROS in tumour development and progression30
Tissue clearing to examine tumour complexity in three dimensions30
Integrating microbiomics in cancer management28
Frozen silicified vaccines28
AACR 202428
Fcγ receptors and immunomodulatory antibodies in cancer28
Ethnically diverse cancer cell lines for drug testing26
CAFs promote CRPC26
Fungi in cancer: not such a ‘fun-guy’24
Decoding the functional impact of the cancer genome through protein–protein interactions23
Next-generation epidemiologic cohorts for cancer aetiology22
Male melanoma comes of age22
EMT in chemoresistance21
Modelling and deciphering tumour metabolism in CRISPR screens21
Mechanisms driving the immunoregulatory function of cancer cells20
The role of eIF4F-driven mRNA translation in regulating the tumour microenvironment20
Advances in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma19
Inflammatory neutrophils18
Silent mutations make noise18
Key role for microbiota in gut–bone crosstalk17
Author Correction: Learning to distinguish progressive and non-progressive ductal carcinoma in situ16
Multiomics-guided cellular immunotherapies16
Decoding the basis of histological variation in human cancer15
Stabilizing the mood of tumours14
Disconnecting multicellular networks in brain tumours13
Deep tissue imaging of cancer in the infrared13
Advances in translational research of the rare cancer type adrenocortical carcinoma12
Stemness in solid malignancies: coping with immune attack12
Exploiting senescence for the treatment of cancer11
Therapeutic resistance to anti-oestrogen therapy in breast cancer11
Mapping out mitochondria10
Air pollution promotes tumorigenesis through pre-existing oncogenic mutations10
Fungi in cancer10
Enhanced transposable elements10
Glioblastomas remodel neural circuits10
Overcoming heterogeneity with 3D whole-tumour sampling9
Androgen receptor activation for breast cancer therapy9
Black voices in cancer research and oncology9
Limiting bias in AI models for improved and equitable cancer care9
Too much of a good thing9
Big data in basic and translational cancer research8
Pathogenesis of cancers derived from thyroid follicular cells8
Aristolochic acid-associated cancers: a public health risk in need of global action8
Nucleotide metabolism: a pan-cancer metabolic dependency8
Genomic and fragmentomic landscapes of cell-free DNA for early cancer detection8
Targeting sex steroid biosynthesis for breast and prostate cancer therapy7
Breast milk for breast cancer detection7
Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment7
Proximity labelling to study chromatin interactomes7
Hubs of transcriptional activity6
Intercepting gastric cancer6
The fibroinflammatory response in cancer6
Tumour avatars to model patients’ responses to immunotherapy5
Feeding latent brain metastasis5
Understanding tumour endothelial cell heterogeneity and function from single-cell omics4
Epigenetic memory4
VIBRANT: mapping cell phenotypes using vibrational spectroscopy4
Towards cancer equity via patient outreach4
Small speckles, big impact4
Conventional chemotherapy: millions of cures, unresolved therapeutic index4
Polyamines in cancer: integrating organismal metabolism and antitumour immunity4
Obesity as a promoter in BRCA mutation carriers4
Protection against tumour formation4
Defining and using immune archetypes to classify and treat cancer4
Metabolic mechanisms of medulloblastoma metastasis4
Tracing the evolutionary history of breast cancer4
Hallmarks of sex bias in immuno-oncology: mechanisms and therapeutic implications4
Bringing community to our pages3
A machine learning toolkit for subtyping cancer in existing and new datasets3
Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma3
Exploiting temporal aspects of cancer immunotherapy3
Studying extrachromosomal DNA with the ecTag method3
The dynamic role of platelets in cancer progression and their therapeutic implications3
Sex affects cancer genomes3
Lymphatic vessels in the age of cancer immunotherapy3
Metabolic networks in mutant KRAS-driven tumours: tissue specificities and the microenvironment3
Enhancing cellular immunotherapies in cancer by engineering selective therapeutic resistance3
Taking the path of most resistance3
Presenting fibroblasts3
scAtlasVAE: a deep learning framework for generating a human CD8+ T cell atlas3
Multiplex protein imaging in tumour biology3
Targeting the DNA damage response in immuno-oncology: developments and opportunities3
PDX models for functional precision oncology and discovery science2
In Polϴ position2
Author Correction: The importance of 3D fibre architecture in cancer and implications for biomaterial model design2
Managing cancer following the World Trade Center disaster2
Shared immunosuppressive mechanism between pregnancy and cancer2
Allies in the epidermis2
Targeting the tumour’s little helpers2
Stromal cells drive tumorigenesis in BRCA1 mutation carriers2
Taking a detour2
Epigenetic lesions drive gliomagenesis2
Harnessing multimodal data integration to advance precision oncology2
Lactate gives a sour taste2
Rusting away with age2
Oncologists must act to manage cancer detected through prenatal screening2
Liquid biopsies for Hodgkin lymphoma2
Pressing defence2
Naughty neutrophils2
How protons pave the way to aggressive cancers2
Mastering the use of cellular barcoding to explore cancer heterogeneity2
Expanding oesophageal cancer research and care in eastern Africa2
Phosphoinositide kinases in cancer: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities2
Smokeless tobacco and cigarette smoking: chemical mechanisms and cancer prevention2
Non-coding driver mutations in human cancer2
Tumour hypoxia in driving genomic instability and tumour evolution2
Making cancer research more inclusive2
Antidepressants revive T cells2
Preprints as tools to advance careers2
The BMP pathway could curb cachexia2
NET-working under stress2
Targeting aberrant splicing2
Cancer’s sensory experience2
Hidden epithelial subtypes refine colorectal cancer classification2
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