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The Lancet

The Lancet publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, on topics such as Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Child and Adolescent Health and Health and Conflict Studies.

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World rank
#2,156,675
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#9,136
of 29,826
Works
3,024
Citations
30k
Citations per work
9.8
h-index
63
i10-index 651Top 0.5% in General Health Professions
The Lancet

What does The Lancet research?

The Lancet's work is mostly in Health Professions (19%), Medicine (15%), Business, Management and Accounting (7%).

Everything else: 1,476 works · 48.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 1,034 works · 34.2% of their workHealth Professions: 587 works · 19.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 587 works · 19.4% of their workMedicine: 448 works · 14.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 308 works · 10.2% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 139 works · 4.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 514 works · 17.0% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 200 works · 6.6% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 200 works · 6.6% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 197 works · 6.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 197 works · 6.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 118 works · 3.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 118 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKThe Lancet3,024works
Health Sciences34%Social Sciences17%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else1,47648.8%
  2. Health Sciences1,03434.2%
    1. Health Professions58719.4%
    2. Medicine44814.8%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting2006.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1976.5%
    3. Social Sciences1183.9%
  1. 1General Health Professions19% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10% of their works
  3. 3Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management7% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe The Lancet's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Public Health, Primary Care, Corporate Political Activity, Non-Communicable Diseases, Economic Growth, Community Health, Pediatrics and Conflict.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Public Health5913 topics
  2. Primary Care4873 topics
  3. Corporate Political Activity4231 topic
  4. Non-Communicable Diseases4231 topic
  5. Economic Growth2272 topics
  6. Community Health2221 topic
  7. Pediatrics2221 topic
  8. Conflict2211 topic
  9. Mortality2211 topic
  10. Healthcare Workers1481 topic
  11. NHS1481 topic
  12. HIV/AIDS1181 topic
  13. Sub-Saharan Africa1181 topic
  14. Continuity of Care1171 topic
  15. Quality Improvement1171 topic
  16. Global Surgery1111 topic
  17. Health Development1111 topic
  18. Ageing Population1091 topic
  19. Health Care Expenditure1091 topic

Where does The Lancet work?

The Lancet's main affiliation in the publication record is Lancet Laboratories, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does The Lancet have?

OpenAlex counts 3,024 works and 29,611 citations for The Lancet, an h-index of 63, ranking #2,156,675 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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