2025
June
10 June: 2024 CiteScore Rises to 3.5
January
15 January: Announce the recipients of the 2024 Outstanding Reviewers Awards
2024
June
20 June: HR received its First Impact Factor
2023
June
21 June: HR was included in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
September
2 September: HR is Indexed in Embase
2022
May
26 May: HR launched the 2018–2020 Best Paper Awards
2021
March
11 March: Prof. Giuliano Ramadori, from Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, was appointed as the Executive Chief Editor.
9 March: Prof. Allan Tsung, from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, United States, and Prof. James Fung, from the University of Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, Hong Kong, China, were appointed as "Associate Editors".
24 March: HR held the first online Editorial Board Webinar.
August
7 August: HR was indexed in Scopus.
2020
August
25 August: HR launched the "Programme for Young Scholar".
18 December: HR held it's first international web seminar on "Systemic Therapy for Cholangiocarcinoma".
2019
February
28 February: HR launched the first Video Abstract
March
18 March: HR became a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
December
19 December: the Fourth Editorial Board Meeting of HR was held in Wuhan, China, sponsored by the 2019 Chinese Academic Conference on Tumor Biomarker (CCTB) and the 13th Youth Scientists Forum on Tumor Biomarker.
2018
December
20 December: the Third Editorial Board Meeting of HR was held in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.
2017
January
3 January: the Second Editorial Board Meeting of the journal was held in Nanning, Guangxi Province, China.
March
10 March, Professor Masao Omata, Honorary Professor at the University of Tokyo, was appointed as Honorary Editor-in-Chief.
June
23 June: Prof. Guang-Wen Cao, Chief Scientist of National Key Basic Research Program, was promoted from "Associate Editor" to be the Editor-in-Chief.
July
31 July: a Summit Forum and the Annual Editorial Board Meeting was held in Rongcheng, Shandong Province, China.
2016
April
17 April: the first Editorial Board Meeting of HR was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
December
5 December: Prof. Shu-Kui Qin, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO), was appointed as Honorary Editor-in-Chief.
2015
April
Hepatoma Research (HR) was launched, which released its inaugural issue in April, and was initially published as a continuous journal.
November
17 November: Prof. Joseph F. Buell, the Founding Editor-in-Chief, visited the Editorial Office in Xi'an, China.
