In this post, apart from Lancet Impact Factor, I have tried to compile all the necessary information a research scholar would seek before publishing an article in the journal.
About The Lancet Journal
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind. It is also the world’s highest-impact academic journal. It was founded in England in 1823
Impact Factor
SJR Rank
H-index
Impact Factor of The Lancet
Impact Factor (IF) or often called journal impact factor (JIF) is an index provided by an analytics company named Clarivate. The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of times the articles are cited in the last two years by the total number of publications in those two years.
For example,
- Total Citations in 2020 and 2021 = 5000
- Total Number of Publications in 2020 and 2021 = 500
- Impact Factor of the Journal in 2022 = 500/100 = 10
Impact Factor (2017-2023)
- Lancet Impact Factor 2017 – 53.254
- Lancet Impact Factor 2018 – 59.102
- Lancet Impact Factor 2019 – 60.392
- Lancet Impact Factor 2020 – 79.321
- Lancet Impact Factor 2021 – 202.731
- Lancet Impact Factor 2022 – 168.9 (Updated June 2023)
Lancet Impact Factor 2022
H-index
The h index is a metric for evaluating the cumulative impact of an author’s scholarly output and performance; measures quantity with quality by comparing publications to citations.
The h index of Lancet Journal is 807, which means among all the published articles in this journal, 807 of these publications have received at least 807 citations each.
Journal Metrics
Lancet CiteScore
CiteScore (CS) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal.
| Cites / Doc. (3 years) | 2018 | 9.182 |
| Cites / Doc. (3 years) | 2019 | 9.348 |
| Cites / Doc. (3 years) | 2020 | 9.670 |
| Cites / Doc. (3 years) | 2021 | 18.731 |
| Cites / Doc. (2 years) | 2018 | 9.098 |
| Cites / Doc. (2 years) | 2019 | 8.043 |
| Cites / Doc. (2 years) | 2020 | 9.153 |
| Cites / Doc. (2 years) | 2021 | 22.226 |
Lancet SCImago Rank
The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator is a measure of the scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where the citations come from.
| Year | SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 15.871 |
| 2019 | 14.554 |
| 2020 | 13.103 |
| 2021 | 15.652 |
Lancet Editorial Board Members
- Chief Editor | Richard Horton
- Deputy editor | Astrid James
- Other Editorial Board Member
Lancet Publication Fee
Lancet is an open-access journal. The publication fee for Lancet is USD 6,500
Lancet Review Time
Lancet prioritizes rapid and fast track publication
| Initial decision to review | 1–3 days after submission |
| Decision after review | 2–4 weeks after submission |
Lancet Reference Style
Cite references in the text sequentially in the Vancouver numbering style, as a superscripted number after any punctuation mark.
For example: “…as reported by Saito and colleagues.15”
Two references are cited separated by a comma, with no space.
Three or more consecutive references are given as a range with an en rule.
References in tables, figures, and panels should be in numerical order according to where the item is cited in the text
Citations
1–4
Bibliography
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3 Hogue CWV. Structure databases. In: Baxevanis AD, Ouellette BFF, eds. Bioinformatics, 2nd edn. New York, NY: Wiley-Interscience, 2001: 83–109.
4 Sambrook J, Russell DW. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 3rd edn. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: CSHL Press, 2001.
Lancet Endnote Style
You can download the Lancet Endnote Style and Lancet Zotero Style
Lancet Abbreviation
The ISO 4 standard abbreviation for abstracting, indexing and referencing purposes of Lancet is “Lancet“
Lancet Acceptance Rate
The acceptance rate of a journal is the ratio of the number of articles submitted to the number of articles published.
The average acceptance rate of Lancet journal is 5%
Lancet Indexed in
Science is indexed in Scopus, SCImago, Web of Science, and UGC journal ranking
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