The Lancet: impact and ranking
The Lancet has a 2-year mean citedness of 21.0 in OpenAlex, which ranks #57 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 1,203. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 21.0 #57 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 1,203 #5 of 18,122
- Citations
- 10.3M #9 of 18,122
- Works
- 476k 21.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Lancet?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for The Lancet: 21.0, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Lancet #57 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.3%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The Lancet?
OpenAlex gives The Lancet an h-index of 1,203: 1,203 of its papers have each been cited at least 1,203 times. That ranks #5 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Lancet publish?
OpenAlex records 475,699 works in The Lancet from 1823 to 2026, cited 10,331,485 times in all, 21.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #9 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0099-5355
- In OpenAlex
- 1823 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The Lancet as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$7,890.
- OpenAlex record
- S49861241
Journals ranked near The Lancet
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Lancet on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 23.3 | 570 |
| 53 | Science | 21.5 | 1,752 |
| 55 | Accounts of Chemical Research | 21.1 | 562 |
| 58 | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | 21.0 | 381 |
| 59 | Nature Protocols | 20.8 | 384 |
| 65 | Advanced Energy Materials | 19.7 | 413 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.