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The Lancet — Template for authors

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Categories Rank Trend in last 3 yrs
Medicine (all) #1 of 793 up up by 1 rank
journal-quality-icon Journal quality:
High
calendar-icon Last 4 years overview: 1609 Published Papers | 147190 Citations
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Journal Performance & Insights

Impact Factor

CiteRatio

Determines the importance of a journal by taking a measure of frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year.

A measure of average citations received per peer-reviewed paper published in the journal.

60.392

2% from 2018

Impact factor for The Lancet from 2016 - 2019
Year Value
2019 60.392
2018 59.102
2017 53.254
2016 47.831
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91.5

25% from 2019

CiteRatio for The Lancet from 2016 - 2020
Year Value
2020 91.5
2019 73.4
2018 64.9
2017 57.9
2016 51.4
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insights Insights

  • Impact factor of this journal has increased by 2% in last year.
  • This journal’s impact factor is in the top 10 percentile category.

insights Insights

  • CiteRatio of this journal has increased by 25% in last years.
  • This journal’s CiteRatio is in the top 10 percentile category.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Measures weighted citations received by the journal. Citation weighting depends on the categories and prestige of the citing journal.

Measures actual citations received relative to citations expected for the journal's category.

13.103

10% from 2019

SJR for The Lancet from 2016 - 2020
Year Value
2020 13.103
2019 14.554
2018 15.871
2017 14.934
2016 12.97
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23.639

11% from 2019

SNIP for The Lancet from 2016 - 2020
Year Value
2020 23.639
2019 21.313
2018 16.833
2017 14.646
2016 12.88
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insights Insights

  • SJR of this journal has decreased by 10% in last years.
  • This journal’s SJR is in the top 10 percentile category.

insights Insights

  • SNIP of this journal has increased by 11% in last years.
  • This journal’s SNIP is in the top 10 percentile category.
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The Lancet

The Lancet publishes a weekly general medical journal and three monthly specialty journals in the fields of oncology, neurology, and infectious diseases. The Lancet journals are international medical journals that will consider any original contribution that advances or illumi...... Read More

Medicine

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Last updated on
28 Jun 2020
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ISSN
0140-6736
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Impact Factor
Maximum - 11.295
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Acceptance Rate
5%
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Open Access
Yes
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Sherpa RoMEO Archiving Policy
Green faq
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Plagiarism Check
Available via Turnitin
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Endnote Style
Download Available
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Bibliography Name
elsarticle-num
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Citation Type
Numbered (Superscripted)
25
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Bibliography Example
Blonder GE, Tinkham M, Klapwijk TM. Transition from metallic to tunneling regimes in supercon-ducting microconstrictions: Excess current, charge imbalance, and supercurrent conversion. Phys Rev B. 1982;25(7):4515–4532. Available from: 10.1103/PhysRevB.25.4515.

Top papers written in this journal

open accessOpen access Journal Article DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30566-3
Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study.
28 Mar 2020 - The Lancet

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R C Turner, Rury R. Holman, Carole A. Cull, Irene M Stratton, David R Matthews, V Frighi, Susan E. Manley, Andrew Neil, K McElroy, D Wright, E. M. Kohner, Caroline S. Fox, D R Hadden, Z Mehta, Albert V. Smith, Z Nugent, Richard Peto, A I Adlel, Jim Mann, P A Bassett, S. Oakes, Tim Dornan, Stephen J Aldington, H Lipinski, R Collum, K Harrison, C MacIntyre, S Skinner, A Mortemore, D Nelson, S Cockley, S Levien, L Bodsworth, R Willox, T Biggs, S Dove, E Beattie, M Gradwell, S Staples, R Lam, F Taylor, L Leung, R D Carter, S M Brownlee, K E Fisher, K Islam, R. Jelfs, P A Williams, F A Williams, P J Sutton, A Ayres, Lisa Logie, C Lovatt, M A Evans, L A Stowell, I Ross, I A Kennedy, D. J. Croft, A H Keen, C Rose, M Raikou, A E Fletcher, Christopher J. Bulpitt, Clare Battersby, J S Yudkin, Richard Stevens, M R Stearn, S L Palmer, M S Hammersley, S L Franklin, R S Spivey, Jonathan C. Levy, C R Tidy, N J Bell, J Steemson, B A Barrow, R Coster, K Waring, L Nolan, E Truscott, N Walravens, L Cook, H Lampard, C Merle, P Parker, J McVittie, I Draisey, L E Murchison, Brunt Ahe., M J Williams, D W Pearson, Petrie Xmp., Lean Mej., D Walmsley, F Lyall, E Christie, J Church, E Thomson, A Farrow, J M Stowers, M Stowers, K McHardy, N Patterson, Alex D. Wright, N A Levi, Shearer Aci., Thompson Rjw., G Taylor, S Rayton, M Bradbury, A Glover, A Smyth-Osbourne, C Parkes, J Graham, P England, S Gyde, C Eagle, B Chakrabarti, Josh Smith, J Sherwell, N. W. Oakley, M. Whitehead, G P Hollier, T. Pilkington, J Simpson, Michael W. Anderson, S Martin, J Kean, B Rice, A Rolland, J Nisbet, E M Kohner, A Dornhorst, M C Doddridge, M Dumskyij, S Walji, P Sharp, M Sleightholm, G Vanterpool, G Frost, M Roseblade, S Elliott, S Forrester, Meredith C. Foster, K Myers, R Chapman, J R Hayes, R W Henry, M S Featherston, Archbold Gpr., M Copeland, R Harper, I Richardson, H A Davison, L Alexander, Scarpello Jhb., D E Shiers, R J Tucker, Worthington Jrh., S Angris, A Bates, J Walton, M Teasdale, J Browne, S Stanley, B A Davis, R C Strange, Hadden, L Kennedy, A B Atkinson, P M Bell, D R McCance, J Rutherford, A M Culbert, C Hegan, H Tennet, N Webb, I Robinson, J Holmes, S Nesbitt, A S Spathis, S Hyer, M E Nanson, L M James, J M Tyrell, C Davis, P Strugnell, M Booth, H Petrie, D Clark, S Hulland, J L Barron, B C Gould, J Singer, A Badenoch, M McGregor, L Isenberg, M Eckert, K Alibhai, E Marriot, Christopher E. Cox, R Price, M Fernandez, A Ryle, S Clarke, G Wallace, E Mehmed, J A Lankester, E Howard, A Waite, S MacFarlane, R H Greenwood, J Wilson, M J Denholm, R C Temple, K Whitfield, F Johnson, C Munroe, S Gorick, E Duckworth, M Fatman, S Rainbow, L J Borthwick, D J Wheatcroft, R J Seaman, R A Christie, W Wheatcroft, P Musk, Jennifer White, S McDougal, M Bond, P Raniga, J L Day, M J Doshi, James G. Wilson, J. Howard-Williams, H Humphreys, A Graham, K Hicks, S Hexman, P Bayliss, D Pledger, R W Newton, R T Jung, C Roxburgh, B Kilgallon, L Dick, N Waugh, S Kilby, A Ellingford, J Burns, C Fox, M C Holloway, H M Coghill, N Hein, A J Fox, W Cowan, M Richard, K Quested, S J Evans, Richard B Paisey, Brown Npr., A J Tucker, R Paisey, F Garrett, J Hogg, P Park, K Williams, P Harvey, R Wilcocks, S Mason, J. C. Frost, C Warren, P Rocket, L Bower, J M Roland, D J Brown, J Youens, K Stanton-King, H Mungall, V Ball, W Maddison, D Donnelly, S King, P Griffin, Sidney C. Smith, S Church, Graham Dunn, Andrew D. Wilson, K Palmer, P M Brown, D Humphriss, Davidson Ajm., Richard Rose, L Armistead, S Townsend, P Poon, Peacock Ida., Culverwell Njc., M H Charlton, Connolly Bps., J Peacock, J Barrett, J Wain, W Beeston, George L. King, P G Hill, Boulton Ajm., A M Robertson, V Katoulis, A Olukoga, H McDonald, S Kumar, F Abouaesha, B Abuaisha, E A Knowles, S Higgins, J Booker, J Sunter, K Breislin, R Parker, P Raval, J Curwell, H Davenport, G Shawcross, A Prest, J Grey, H Cole, C Sereviratne, R J Young, J R Clyne, M Gibson, I O'Connell, L M Wong, S J Wilson, K L Wright, Chris Wallace, D McDowell, A C Burden, E M Sellen, R Gregory, M Roshan, N Vaghela, M Burden, C Sherriff, S Mansingh, J Clarke, J Grenfell, Je Tooke, K. M. MacLeod, C Seamark, M Rammell, C Pym, J Stockman, C Yeo, J Piper, L Leighton, Ellen Green, M Hoyle, K Jones, A Hudson, A J James, Angela C. Shore, A Higham, B Martin, Neil Haw., Butterfield Wjh., Doll Wrs., R Eastman, F R Ferris, N Kurinij, K McPherson, R F Mahler, Tom W. Meade, G Shafer, P J Watkins, H Keen, D Siegel, D J Betteridge, R D Cohen, D Currie, Julie L Darbyshire, J V Forrester, T Guppy, D G Johnston, Alistair McGuire, Mike Murphy, A M el-Nahas, B Pentecost, D Spiegelhalter, Alberti Kgmm., R Denton, Philip Home, S Howell, Jarrett, V Marks, Michael Marmot, J D Ward, Grp Ukpds.
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1. Can I write The Lancet in LaTeX?

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2. Do you follow the The Lancet guidelines?

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3. Can I cite my article in multiple styles in The Lancet?

Of course! We support all the top citation styles, such as APA style, MLA style, Vancouver style, Harvard style, and Chicago style. For example, when you write your paper and hit autoformat, our system will automatically update your article as per the The Lancet citation style.

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Yes. You can choose the right template, copy-paste the contents from the word document, and click on auto-format. Once you're done, you'll have a publish-ready paper The Lancet that you can download at the end.

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SciSpace's The Lancet is currently available as an online tool. We're developing a desktop version, too. You can request (or upvote) any features that you think would be helpful for you and other researchers in the "feature request" section of your account once you've signed up with us.

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11. What is the output that I would get after using The Lancet?

After writing your paper autoformatting in The Lancet, you can download it in multiple formats, viz., PDF, Docx, and LaTeX.

12. Is The Lancet's impact factor high enough that I should try publishing my article there?

To be honest, the answer is no. The impact factor is one of the many elements that determine the quality of a journal. Few of these factors include review board, rejection rates, frequency of inclusion in indexes, and Eigenfactor. You need to assess all these factors before you make your final call.

13. What is Sherpa RoMEO Archiving Policy for The Lancet?

SHERPA/RoMEO Database

We extracted this data from Sherpa Romeo to help researchers understand the access level of this journal in accordance with the Sherpa Romeo Archiving Policy for The Lancet. The table below indicates the level of access a journal has as per Sherpa Romeo's archiving policy.

RoMEO Colour Archiving policy
Green Can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher's version/PDF
Blue Can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) or publisher's version/PDF
Yellow Can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
White Archiving not formally supported
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  1. Pre-prints as being the version of the paper before peer review and
  2. Post-prints as being the version of the paper after peer-review, with revisions having been made.

14. What are the most common citation types In The Lancet?

The 5 most common citation types in order of usage for The Lancet are:.

S. No. Citation Style Type
1. Author Year
2. Numbered
3. Numbered (Superscripted)
4. Author Year (Cited Pages)
5. Footnote

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16. Can I download The Lancet in Endnote format?

Yes, SciSpace provides this functionality. After signing up, you would need to import your existing references from Word or Bib file to SciSpace. Then SciSpace would allow you to download your references in The Lancet Endnote style according to Elsevier guidelines.

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