The Clinical Oncology Early Career Investigator Award

Clinical Oncology is a monthly scientific journal produced by The Royal College of Radiologists. To show support for early career researchers, each year the Journal gives prestigious awards to three outstanding papers where the lead author was a trainee at the time of submission.

Papers published in the 2021 volume of the journal are eligible to be nominated for this award.

Papers can be nominated for consideration for the award (self-nomination is accepted); the awards will be selected by two members of the Editorial Board.

These are prestigious awards for clinical oncologists and we hope that they will inspire other clinical oncologists who are starting out in their careers to undertake research and become involved with the Clinical Oncology journal. 

Three prizes are also available:

• The winner will receive £500
• Two highly commended submissions will receive £250

Criteria

Eligible papers will be original research or reviews where the lead author is a trainee (defined as not being in a substantive consultant post at the time of submission).

Nominated papers will be evaluated against the following set of criteria:

• Relevant topic for clinical oncology
• Novel/original concept
• Clarity of writing and presentation
• Appropriate methodology/literature search
• Clear reporting of findings
• Appropriate conclusions based on findings.