# Radiation oncology

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## TL;DR

Radiation Oncology is a fully open access radiotherapy journal from BMC. Radiation oncologists and medical physicists read it for clinical and technical studies on radiation treatment.

## Summary

Radiation Oncology is an online-only, fully open access journal launched in 2006 by BioMed Central in London, now part of Springer Nature; the NLM Catalog notes that articles are added consecutively to the current annual volume and that the journal is indexed in MEDLINE and deposited in PubMed Central. According to the Directory of Open Access Journals it has been open access since its start in 2006, publishes under Creative Commons CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licences, charges an article processing fee and uses anonymous peer review; DOAJ classifies it under medical radiology and oncology. It covers clinical and translational radiation oncology, radiotherapy techniques and medical physics.

## Fields

- Kind: Journal
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: Radiat Oncol; Radiation Oncology (London); Radiation Oncology
- Publisher: BMC (Springer Nature)
- Scope: radiation oncology
- Access: open-access

## Sources

- Homepage: https://ro-journal.biomedcentral.com/
- NLM Catalog: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101265111
- DOAJ record: https://doaj.org/toc/1748-717X

## Connected records

- collections: [PubMed & Europe PMC](https://onco.cc/collections/pubmed-europepmc/)
- fronts: [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- technologies: [IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam)](https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/), [SBRT / SABR (stereotactic radiotherapy)](https://onco.cc/technologies/sbrt/)
- people: [Marek Svoboda](https://onco.cc/people/marek-svoboda/), [Maximilian Niyazi](https://onco.cc/people/maximilian-niyazi/), [Paola Anna Erba](https://onco.cc/people/paola-anna-erba/), [Tomáš Kazda](https://onco.cc/people/tomas-kazda/), [Vincenzo Valentini](https://onco.cc/people/vincenzo-valentini/)

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