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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
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- 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.