The Lancet

*The Lancet*
	Cover of Volume 393, 2 March 2019
Discipline	Medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Richard Horton
Publication details
History	1823–present
Publisher	Elsevier (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Weekly
Open access	Delayed
Impact factor	98.4 (2023)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Lancet
Indexing;
CODEN	LANCAO
ISSN	0140-6736 (print); 1474-547X (web);
LCCN	sf82002015
OCLC no.	01755507
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Webpage at publisher's site;

The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, founded in England in 1823.^[1] It is one of the world's highest-impact academic journals and also one of the oldest medical journals still in publication.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

The journal publishes original research articles, review articles ("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.^[6] The journal has editorial offices in London, New York City, and Beijing.

^ "About the Lancet". Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
^ "Prestigious Medical Journal, The Lancet, Issues Family Planning Series". Population Media Center. 13 July 2012. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
^ "Scholar Metrics: Top Publications". Google Scholar. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
^ Hutchinson, Martin (6 October 2003). "How The Lancet made medical history". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
^ Ioannidis, John P. A.; Belbasis, Lazaros; Evangelou, Evangelos; Gupta, Vineet (1 September 2010). "Fifty-Year Fate and Impact of General Medical Journals". PLOS ONE. 5 (9): e12531. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...512531I. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012531. PMC 2931710. PMID 20824146.
^ "People at The Lancet". The Lancet. Archived from the original on 18 November 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2018.

[About_the_Lancet-1] "About the Lancet". Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2020.

[2] "Prestigious Medical Journal, The Lancet, Issues Family Planning Series". Population Media Center. 13 July 2012. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

[3] "Scholar Metrics: Top Publications". Google Scholar. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2020.

[4] Hutchinson, Martin (6 October 2003). "How The Lancet made medical history". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2025.

[ioannidis-5] Ioannidis, John P. A.; Belbasis, Lazaros; Evangelou, Evangelos; Gupta, Vineet (1 September 2010). "Fifty-Year Fate and Impact of General Medical Journals". PLOS ONE. 5 (9): e12531. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...512531I. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012531. PMC 2931710. PMID 20824146.

[6] "People at The Lancet". The Lancet. Archived from the original on 18 November 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2018.

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