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 The Lancet

 The Lancet is a scientific, general medicine journal title, publishing original research and reviews, focusing on real-world impacts to improve society. Although originally founded in the UK over 200 years ago, it has an international reach and promotes papers to a wide readership. It holds high standards of peer review and editorial scrutiny.

 The Lancet is typically one of our most viewed journals by NHS staff.

infograph list key features of the lancet - original research, impact, international perspective, peer-review

The Lancet has a Journal impact Factor of 169.4 (2023, Journal Citation Report, Web of Science, accessed 19/12/23). This places the Lancet as the highest journal by JIF in the category of Medicine, general and internal.

Journal Impact Factor (JIF)

The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is the most widely quoted metric and has traditionally been the gold standard. It gives an overall value indicating the average number of times research articles and reviews have been cited by other articles/journals. Typically, it has been an indicator of the impact and influence of a journal on published research in a subject category. However, it is not necessarily an indicator of quality and there is some debate these days regarding its value. You can find the JIF of a journal by typing “impact factor” along with the journal name into Google. I have used Web of Science to find information about the JIF.

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The Lancet group publish a wide range of specialty-specific sister titles. Some of these are also available within our collections:

  • Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Lancet Digital Health
  • Lancet Global Health
  • Lancet Haematology
  • Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Lancet HIV
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Lancet Microbe
  • Lancet Neurology
  • Lancet Oncology
  • Lancet Planetary Health
  • Lancet Psychiatry
  • Lancet Public Health
  • Lancet Respiratory Medicine

We also subscribe to key general medicine journals:

  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • JAMA – journal of the American medical association
  • BMJ – British medical journal

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