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Journal Record · Medicine

The Lancet

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Key Metrics

Metric Value Source
Impact Factor (current) 109 Clarivate JCR
Impact Factor (5-year) 115.4 Clarivate JCR
CiteScore 87.6 Elsevier/Scopus
SJR 14.821 SCImago
SNIP 22.724 CWTS Leiden
Quartile Q1 Clarivate JCR

Publisher: Elsevier

Journal Information

ISSN / eISSN
0140-6736 / 1474-547X
Country
UK
Subject Area(s)
Medicine
Indexing
MEDLINE PubMed SCIE Scopus
Open Access
Hybrid

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