About This Journal

Tumour Science (TS) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal, and TS publishes research results on the molecular mechanism of tumor occurrence, prevention and treatment. Topics include but are not limited to: Molecular Cancer Biology Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Biomarkers Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Tumor Microenvironment Tumor Causes, Screening and Diagnosis Cancer Therapy Transplant Oncology and Cancer Nursing Care Clinical Trials of Tumor Methods and Technologies Development The original and innovative manuscripts related to tumor science research, including original research articles, reviews, comments, letters to editor, etc.

Focus and Scope

For Authors

• Editorial Policies

  Authors must avoid academic misconduct including plagiarism, ensure the manuscripts are written in accordance to the “Author Guidelines”, and comply with publishing ethics.

  All the manuscripts submitted will be screened for the language, novelty and relevance to the scope of the Journal. The manuscripts will be treated as confidential materials, and all the participants will not be disclosed to anyone except editorial staff, reviewers and editors.

  A manuscript would not be accepted if it has been published or is currently under consideration for publication in any other journals. The author will need to notify the editorial team if the data in their submission has been presented in conferences or preprint.

  Before submitting, please read the editorial policies, including Open Access Policy, Publishing Ethics, Conflict of Interest, Plagiarism, Preprint Policy, Erratum, Retraction & Withdrawal Policy, Authorship, APCs.

• Publishing Ethics

  Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte. Ltd. follows the rules, regulations and best practices set by:

  • Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
  • The Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing as stipulated by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) 

  Experiments should be carried out in accordance with the guidelines laid down by the International Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC), ICMR, or local Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) and in accordance with local laws and regulations. All studies using human or animal subjects should include an explicit statement identifying the review and ethics committee approval for each study, if applicable. An informed consent should be obtained for all clinical treatment where disclosure is required regarding medical information that includes discussion on the risks, benefits, and alternatives.

  The Editorial Office adopts a zero-tolerance policy concerning any misconducts, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. The journal editors take all possible misconducts seriously. The editors, authors or readers can forward their concerns to the Journal if they find out that the description in a submitted article may constitute an academic fraud, research misconduct or publication malpractice. The complainant could direct all correspondence to editorial-ts@apacsci.com. The Editorial Office will deal with it according to the procedure set out in the COPE.

• Ethical Oversight

  TS always follows the Ethical Oversight policy of COPE, and monitors every stage of the completion of best practice followed by the Core Practice and the ethical problem of COPE. All academic misconduct is strictly prohibited. If there is any potential for, including but not limited to academic fraud, plagiarism, and multiple contributions, the manuscript will not be assigned to the next stage for evaluation, and authors are responsible for explaining doubts to the Editorial Office. WT promises that all the submissions are private, and they will not be disclosed to third parties unless the publishing purposes. Authors, editors, and reviewers should expose any potential conflict of interest timely according to the Conflict of Interest Policy.

  For subjects involving humans or animals, TS asks authors to be deeply concerned the privacy and welfare of the subjects based on the policy of Statement of Human and Animal Rights. Authors should provide the approval from the institutional ethical regulator or committee. All the information of the subjects is private, and authors should hide the identifiable information such as face picture, name, and fingerprint picture. Most importantly, Informed Content Statement from all the research subjects should be obtained, and authors need to inform the subjects that this research will be published in future. For the vulnerable, it is necessary to obtain oral or written Informed Content Statement from their parent of kinship.

• Section Collection Policy

  The Section Collection program has been driven by Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte. Ltd. for a new chance to run an open access journal. This program aims to collect multidisciplinary topics, and concentrate authors from diverse research fields to focus on a special theme. It is great attempt to develop new ideas and applications. Section editorial team is composed of many scientists whose research fields covering various interests. They all supervise the implementation of the program, and the editorial process must comply with editorial policies of the journal.

  A Section Collection is usually launched by an expert with great trust among peers and invited by the Editorial Office, or scholars could apply a section collection. Section Editors are representatives focusing on a theme from multidisciplinary topics. They have different research background, and gather to initiate new ideas and collaborations. Great responsibilities of Section Editors include:

  • Preparing the title, summary, keywords, submission deadline, etc.
  • Preparing a potential contributors’ list.
  • Suspecting and contributing to the editorial progress , including but not limited to the initial screening, peer-reviewed process, and final decision making.

   

  Workflow of Section Collection

  Section Editors are invited to prepare the summary of Section Collections, and advert the project. New manuscripts should be submitted via the open journal system, and then Section Collection Editors will evaluate the research field and the integrality of the manuscripts. Assistant Editors will screen the originality by iThenticate. Any manuscript with potential misconduct must be prevented to the next stage. The Editorial Office will pass it for the double-blind peer-reviewed process for further review comments with no less than two reviewers. The Section Collection Editors have the responsibility to supervise the rigor and scientificity of the whole process. All the comments are collected to Section Editors, who will make the final decision on the manuscript such as acceptance, revision, or rejection. Accepted manuscripts will go through the production stage. Meanwhile, authors will get the article accepted notification. Published papers will be archived in the current issue of the journal, and also collected on the Section Collections page.

• Authorship

  According to the ICMJE, authors should meet the following three points at the same time:

  • have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, acquisition and analysis of data;
  • have made intellectual contribution to writing the manuscript or revising it;
  • provide final approval of the version to be published.

  All authors must read and approve the final version of the manuscript. All authors have the right to explain the questions raised, and agree the author rank before publishing.

  Changes to Authorship

  The Editorial Office considers the authorship list is definitive by the time the original submission is received.

  Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names should be made only before the manuscript is accepted for publication. The corresponding author should provide the reasons for the change in the authorship list and the proof of written confirmation from all authors (including the existing authors, author(s) to be added and/or removed) agreeing with such changes.

  The requests for authorship changes need to be approved by the Editorial Office before any changes can be made.

• Conflict of Interest

  During the peer-review process, authors, editors and reviewers all should avoid any potential or actual conflict of interest. It is to be noted that even perceptions of conflicts of interest are as important as the actual conflicts of interest.

  • For authors: authors must declare any potential conflict of interest in related to the research when submitting the manuscript, including academic competition, and financial benefits, especially the agreement with research sponsors, that could make some influence on your study results. The avoidance list from the author(s) is welcome.
  • For editors: editors should assess their own potential conflicts, that they must not be one of the co-authors or at the some organization with one of the authors, nor any potential conflict of interest related to the research; otherwise, they should avoid participating in the whole peer-review process.
  • For reviewers: reviewers should avoid relationship with any author, e.g. work at the some organization with one of the authors, being one of the co-authors. If they feel unable to be objective, they must declare potential interest, and decline to review the manuscript. If the reviewers are on the list of avoidance list from the author(s), and they will not be invited to be a reviewer.

• Plagiarism

  Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte. Ltd. is a member of Crossref. All submissions are screened by iThenticate. Any plagiarism (fabrication or falsification of data) is unacceptable, including duplicate publication without proper citations.

  The Publisher will follow the flowcharts of COPE to handle cases of potential plagiarism in a submitted manuscript or a published article. All the authors and their institutions will be informed about the case.

  Any complaint about reviewer suspected to have appropriated an author’s ideas or data, the journal office will investigate, and react according to the procedure set out in COPE's guidance as a flowchart.

• Erratum, Retraction & Withdrawal policy

  Erratum

  Editors, authors and readers, whoever find a correction is required in the publication, please feel free to contact editorial-ts@apacsci.com. Please clearly state the content needing to be changed. Please also send the article title, DOI, and page number to us. Upon approving by the Editorial Office, an erratum will be published in the current issue.

  Retraction

  The journal considers retracting the publication including but are not limited to:

  • Editors have clear evidence that the result is unreliable, there is a tendency of misconduct, or evident calculation error, etc.
  • It reports unethical research including plagiarism.

  The journal will post a notice of retraction by clearly identified as a retraction with the reason(s), and link to the retracted article wherever possible to minimize harmful effects.

  WT abides by Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Please note that APC will not be refunded due to the retraction of an article.

  Withdrawal

  This journal does not support withdrawal of publication considering that it may be suspected of academic misconduct. If the author can provide reasonable application to the Editorial Office after the manuscript has been accepted (but not yet published), and once the Editorial Office has agreed it, then the processing fee of USD 200 is chargeable upon withdrawal. Authors are advised to keep in mind that an article should only be withdrawn if the authors detect significant errors or flaws, as it is not an acceptable practice to withdraw an article after it has been sent for peer review. Once the approval of submission withdrawal is granted, the submission will be removed from the Journal’s online submission system, and a confirmation email of submission withdrawal will be sent to the authors. The withdrawal process is considered to be complete once the author receives a confirmation of withdrawal from the Journal Editorial Office.

• Language

  The language used in manuscripts submitted to this Journal is required to be English. Authors from non-English speaking countries may have their manuscripts professionally edited before submission to ensure the article content is fully understood by readers.

• Copyright

  Authors retain the copyright, and they agree to make their original work completely available and free to be used, copied, downloaded, distributed and reused as long as the original source is properly cited. Authors should declare that there is no any academic misconduct, and will grant the right of first publication by signing a License for Publishing before formal publication.

• License

  Papers will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) by default. The Journal displays licensing information in its articles.

  According to this license, users are free to:

  • Share: copy and redistribute the material;
  • Adapt: transform, reuse, remix and build upon the material;
  • Attribute: distribute the material on the premise of the correct original citation.

• Preprint Policy

  Authors are permitted to post their original research manuscripts without peer-review to preprint servers before submitting to our journal. But authors are not allowed to post any versions of articles that have been revised on the preprint server during or after the peer-review process.

  The manuscript whose corresponding preprint version has been indexed (e.g. in MEDLINE or PubMed) will not be considered.

  We encourage formal citation of preprints in the reference list if appropriate.

• Permissions and Reprints

  The authors reserve the copyright. Papers will be published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) by default. It is free to use, copy, download, distribute and reuse the work as long as the original source is properly cited. All the publications could be explored to the e-version; if you’d like to discuss in more detail how our content could work with your marketing strategy, please contact editorial-ts@apacsci.com.

• Statement of Informed Consent

  All papers submitted to Tumour Science should declare that they have obtain the "statement of informed consent" written or oral during submitting. Any paper lacking it will not be considered for publication.

  Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Nonessential identifying details should be omitted. All information which could contribute to identify patients, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, etc., unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives explicit written or oral informed consent for publication. If identifying characteristics are de-identified, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning, and editors will note that. Furthermore, individuals who provide writing assistance should be identified by the authors, and they should disclose the funding source for this assistance.

• Statement of Human and Animal Rights

  All papers submitted to Tumour Science should declare agreement with the following "statement of human and animal rights". Any paper lacking it will not be considered for publication. Papers describing procedures involving humans or animals must include an explicit and easily identifiable statement pointing out that the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 and 2008. If any doubt exists as to whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and then demonstrate that the institutional ethical committee explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study.

  When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

• Indexing & Archiving

  Tumour Science (TS) has been indexed by several world-class abstracting/indexing databases:

     Google Scholar

     Scilit

     EuroPub

  • All the publications will be archived by Portico.
  • Authors are encouraged to self-archive the final version of their published articles into institutional repositories (such as those listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories).

  Authors are also encouraged to use the final PDF version published on the website of Academic Publisher especially on personal academic media.

• Article Processing Charges (APCs)

  Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte. Ltd. publishes all its journals in Gold Open Access format. In order to defray our editorial and production costs, authors of the accepted articles are required to pay an article processing charge (APC) of USD 800. The charges will come from authors' institutes or research funding bodies.

  TS receives financial support from Beijing Chuncheng Education Publications Research Center, hence there is no article processing charge (APC) or fees payable for article publication for the time being.

• Waiver Policy

  The Journal develops a waiver policy for authors from low-income countries. Please contact editorial-ts@apacsci.com for application. TS reserves the right to approve or reject a waiver application.

• Declaimer

  This journal  is not liable to the statements, perspectives, and opinions contained in the published articles. The appearance of advertisements in the journal shall not be construed as a warranty, endorsement, or approval of the products or services advertised and/or the safety thereof. This Journal and the Publisher disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas or products referred to in the articles or advertisements.

  As an author, once submitting a manuscript, it means that you have been aware of all publishing policies & ethics,  and will strictly abide by them.

  As a reviewer, once reviewing a manuscript, it means that you must be aware of the peer review policies, and proactively disclose of all potential conflicts of interest, and guarantee that the article will be judged fairly and objectively. 

   

• Advertising Policy

  All advertising policies are independent of editorial decisions. Advertisements must comply with the regulations of the local country. For more inquiries, please get in touch via editorial-ts@apacsci.com.

• Author Guidelines

  Author Guidelines

  Before your submission, please check that your manuscript has been prepared in accordance to the step-by-step instructions for submitting a manuscript to our online submission system.

  Manuscript Format

  Your manuscript should be in MS Word format. All manuscripts must be written in clear, comprehensible English. Both British and American English are accepted. Usage of non-English words should be kept to a minimum. If you have concerns about the level of English in your submission, please ensure that it is proofread before submission by a native English speaker or a scientific editing service.

  Cover Letter

  All submissions should include a cover letter as a separate file. A cover letter should contain a brief explanation of what was previously known, the conceptual advancement with the findings and its significance to broad readership. The cover letter is confidential and will be read only by the editors. It will not be seen by reviewers.

  Title

  The title should capture the conceptual significance for a broad audience. The title should not be more than 50 words and should be able to give readers an overall view of the paper’s significance. Titles should avoid using uncommon jargons, abbreviations and punctuation.

  List of Authors

  The names of authors should be listed along with their affiliations. Authors should be listed according to the extent of their contribution, with the major contributor listed first. All corresponding authors should be identified with an asterisk. Affiliations should contain the following core information: department, institution, city, and country. For contact, email address of at least one corresponding author must be included. Please note that all authors must see and approve the final version of the manuscript before submitting.

  Abstract

  The abstract is a brief description of the full text. The purpose of abstract is to provide sufficient information for a reader to determine whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article. After the abstract, please give 3–8 key words; please avoid using the same words as those already used in the title.

  Text

  The text of the manuscript should be in Microsoft Word. 

  Section Headings

  Please number the section headings (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4) in boldface. Likewise, use boldface to identify subheadings too but please distinguish it from major headings using numbers (e.g. 1.1., 1.2., 2.1., 2.2.) Further subsections of subheadings should be italic, bold without numbers.

  Introduction

  Introduction should provide a background that gives a broad readership an overall outlook of the field and the research performed. It tackles a problem and states its importance regarding the significance of the study.

  Materials and Methods

  This section provides the general experimental design and methodologies used. The aim is to provide enough details for other investigators to fully replicate your results. It is also required to facilitate better understanding of the results obtained. Protocols and procedures for new methods must be included in detail to reproduce the experiments.

  Results

  This section can be divided into subheadings. This section focuses on the results of the experiments performed.

  Conclusion

  Please use the conclusion section for interpretation only, and not to summarize information already presented in the text or abstract.

  Discussion

  If this section is included, it may provide the significance of the results and identify the impact of the research in a broader context. It should not be redundant or similar to the content of the results section.

  Conflict of Interest

  All authors are required to declare all activities that have the potential to be deemed as a source of competing interest in relations to their submitted manuscript. Examples of such activities could include personal or work-related relationships, and events. Authors who have nothing to declare are encouraged to add "No conflict of interest was reported by all authors" in this section.

  Acknowledgements

  If possible, authors may declare all financial and non-financial support that have the potential to be deemed as a source of competing interest in relations to their submitted manuscript in this section if possible. Financial supports are generally in the form of grants, royalties, consulting fees and more. Examples of non-financial support could include the following: externally-supplied equipments/biological sources, writing assistance, administrative support, and contributions from non-authors.

  Appendix

  This section is optional and is for all materials (e.g. advanced technical details) that have been excluded from the main text but remain essential to readers in understanding the manuscripts. This section is not for supplementary figures. Authors are advised to refer to the section on "Supplementary figures" for such submissions. This section is after References.

  Figures

  Authors should include all figures into the manuscript and submit it as one file in the OJS. Figures include photographs, scanned images, graphs, charts and schematic diagrams. Please remember to label all figures (e.g. axis) and number them (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2) in boldface. Please also add in captions (below the figure) as required. The caption should describe the entire figure without citing specific panels, followed by a legend defined as description of each panel. Please identify each panel with letters in parenthesis (e.g. (a), (b), (c)).

  The preferred file formats for any separately submitted figure(s) are TIFF or JPEG. All figures should be legible in print form and of optimal resolution. Although there are no file size limitation imposed, authors are highly encouraged to compress their figures to an ideal size without unduly affecting legibility and resolution of figures. This will also speed up the process of uploading in the submission system if necessary.

  The Editor-in-Chief and editors reserve the right to request from author(s) the high-resolution files and unprocessed data and metadata files should the need arise at any point after manuscript submission for reasons such as production, evaluation or other purposes. The file name should allow for ease in identifying the associated manuscript submitted.

  Tables, Lists and Equations

  Tables created using Microsoft Word table function are preferred. The tables should include a title on top. Titles and footnotes/legends should be concise. These must be submitted together with the manuscript. Likewise, lists and equations should be properly aligned and its meaning clear to readers. For listing things within the main body of the manuscript, please use Arabic numerals in parenthesis (e.g. 1, 2, 3, or (1), (2), (3), (4)).

  In-text citations

  Citations in the text should be numbered consecutively in superscript square brackets. Some examples:

  a) Negotiation research spans many disciplines^[3,4].

  b) This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman^[5].

  c) This effect has been widely studied^{[1–3, 7]}.

  Personal communications and unpublished works can only be used in the main text of the submission and are not to be placed in the Reference section. Authors are advised to limit such usage to the minimum. They should also be easily identifiable by stating the authors and year of such unpublished works or personal communications and the word "Unpublished" in parenthesis. E.g. (Smith J, 2000, Unpublished).

   

  References

  This section is compulsory and should be placed at the end of all manuscripts. The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should be excluded from this section.

  References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in square brackets. Authors referenced are listed with their surname followed by their initials. All references should also appear as an in-text citation. If the referred article has more than three authors, list only the first three authors and abbreviate the remaining authors to italicized "et al" (meaning: "and others").

  Standard journal article

  Journal article with one to three authors

  •Jackson D, Firtko A, Edenborough M. Personal resilience as a strategy for surviving and thriving in the face of workplace adversity: A literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2007; 60(1): 1–9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04412.x.

  Journal article with more than three authors

  •Hargreave M, Jensen A, Nielsen TSS, et al. Maternal use of fertility drugs and risk of cancer in children—A nationwide population-based cohort study in Denmark. International Journal of Cancer 2015; 136(8): 1931–1939. doi: 10.1002/ijc.29235.

  Book

  Book with one to three authors

  •Schneider Z, Whitehead D, Elliott D. Nursing and midwifery research: Methods and appraisal for evidence-based practice. 3^rd ed. Marrickville, NSW: Elsevier Australia; 2007.

  Book with more than three authors

  •Davis M, Charles L, Curry MJ, et al. Challenging spatial norms. London: Routledge; 2003.

  Chapter or Article in Book

  •Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW (editors). The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93–113.

   

  Others

  Proceedings of meetings and symposiums, conference papers

  •Christensen S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza’s computational effort statistic for genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, et al. (editors). Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5^th European Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3–5; Kinsdale, Berlin: Springer; 2002. p. 182–191.

  Conference proceedings (from electronic database)

  •Harnden P, Joffe JK, Jones WG (editors). Germ cell tumours V. Proceedings of the 5^th Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13–15; Leeds, New York: Springer; 2002.

  Online Document with author names

  •Este J, Warren C, Connor L, et al. Life in the clickstream: The future of journalism [Internet]. Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance; 2008. Available from: http://www.alliance.org.au/documents/foj_report_final.pdf.

  Online Document without author name

  •Developing an argument. Princeton Writing Program [Internet]. Princeton: Princeton University; 1999. Available from: https://www.haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/Writing-Center/developinganargument.pdf.

  Thesis/Dissertation

  •Borkowski MM. Infant sleep and feeding: A telephone survey of Hispanic Americans [PhD thesis]. Mount Pleasant (MI): Central Michigan University; 2002.

  Patent

  •Rencher WF (inventor). Bioadhesive pharmaceutical carrier. US patent. 5,462,749 A. 1994 May 24.

  Legislation

  •Digital Economy Act 2017 [Internet]. 2017 Apr 27 [cited 2021 Jan 13] (Great Britain). Available from: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/30/introduction/enacted.

  Standards

  •AS 1288-2006. Glass in buildings:  Selection and installation.

  Government Report

  •National Commission of Audit. Report to the Commonwealth Government. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service; 1996.

  Government report (online)

  •Department of Health and Ageing. Ageing and aged care in Australia [Internet]. 2008. Available from: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ main/publishing.nsf/Content/ageing.

   

  Note: When referencing an entry from a dictionary or an encyclopedia with no author, there is no requirement to include the source in the reference list. In these cases, only cite the title and year of the source in-text. For an authored dictionary/encyclopedia, treat the source as an authored book.

• Copyright Notice

  The authors shall retain the copyright of their work but allow the Publisher to publish, copy, distribute, and convey the work.

  All articles published by Tumour Science are licensed under the Creative Commons International Licenses. Without any explicit request from the corresponding author during the submission stage, a paper will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) by default. The authors who would like to publish their work under a non-commercial purpose license, i.e. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), they should express explicit request during the submission stage. Please include statement below in the Comments for the Editor column on the submission page:

  The contributors or authors for this submission entitled “[MANUSCRIPT TITLE]”, i.e. [NAMES of ALL AUTHORS], have given their consents to alter the Creative Commons license to *CC BY-NC 4.0* under which this submission will be published in Tumour Science.

• Privacy Statement

  The information from manuscripts including the authors’ name, addresses, and email, will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this Journal. The collected information will not be available for any other purpose or to any other party.

  For reviewers, they should state that the submitted material must be treated in confidence and may not be used in any way until it has been published.

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