The Lancet Oncology

Reviewed by Umair Abbasi

AI Engineer & Data Scientist | PhD Candidate, Artificial Intelligence

Umair Abbasi is an AI Engineer and Data Scientist with a background in machine learning, AI agents, and MLOps, currently pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and holding a completed M.S. in Data Science. He leads the data architecture and tooling behind the journal metrics database and comparison tools. As an active researcher navigating journal selection and citation metrics in his own academic work, he brings a practitioner's perspective to how impact factor, CiteScore, and related metrics are actually used — not just how they're defined.