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Within Vinony's link graph, The Lancet is referenced by 2,607 other articles, and connects out to The BMJ, JSTOR and peer review.
Vinony files it under 1823 establishments in England, Academic journal series and Delayed open access journals (infobox).
Its subject is documented across 45 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Discipline
- Medicine
- Language
- English
- Edited by
- Richard Horton
- History
- 1823–present
- Publisher
- Elsevier (United Kingdom)
- Frequency
- Weekly
- Open access
- Delayed
- Impact factor
- 88.5 (2024)
- Iso 4
- Lancet
- Coden
- LANCAO
- Issn
- 0140-6736 (print), 1474-547X (web)
- Lccn
- sf82002015
- Oclc no
- 01755507
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic journal
- Named after
- scalpel
- Field of work
- medicine
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Founded by
- Thomas Wakley
- Country of origin
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Main subject
- medicine
- Official website
- www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-lancet
- Image
- Lancetmed1823wakl 0007.jpg
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- Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level
- 3
- editor
- Richard Horton
- Commons category
- The Lancet
- title
- Lancet
- social media followers
- 68700
- language of work or name
- English language
- inception
- 1823-00-00
- publication interval
- 1
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject COVID-19
- short name
- Lancet
- indexed in bibliographic review
- Science Citation Index Expanded
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Encyclopedic overview
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, founded in England in 1823. It is one of the world's highest-impact academic journals and also one of the oldest medical journals still in publication.
The journal publishes original research articles, review articles (divided into seminars and reviews), editorials, book reviews, correspondence, as well as news features and case reports. The Lancet has been owned by Elsevier since 1991, and its editor-in-chief since 1995 has been Richard Horton. The journal has editorial offices in London, New York City, and Beijing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Lancet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.