The Lancet Oncology: impact and ranking
The Lancet Oncology has a 2-year mean citedness of 12.4 in OpenAlex, which ranks #232 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 521. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 12.4 #232 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 521 #76 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #348 of 18,122
- Works
- 12k 87.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Lancet Oncology?
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 Oncology: 12.4, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Lancet Oncology #232 of 18,122 journals, in the top 1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The Lancet Oncology?
OpenAlex gives The Lancet Oncology an h-index of 521: 521 of its papers have each been cited at least 521 times. That ranks #76 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Lancet Oncology publish?
OpenAlex records 12,141 works in The Lancet Oncology from 1906 to 2026, cited 1,058,269 times in all, 87.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #348 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Lancet Oncology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1470-2045
- In OpenAlex
- 1906 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The Lancet Oncology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$7,280.
- OpenAlex record
- S116900674
Journals ranked near The Lancet Oncology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Lancet Oncology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 208 | Science Advances | 13.2 | 378 |
| 223 | Kidney International | 12.8 | 391 |
| 228 | Energy Conversion and Management | 12.5 | 315 |
| 238 | Computers in Human Behavior | 12.3 | 355 |
| 241 | Biomaterials | 12.3 | 493 |
| 244 | The Science of The Total Environment | 12.2 | 492 |
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.