The Lancet

75.2k papers and 5.4M indexed citations

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The 75.2k papers published in The Lancet in the last decades have received a total of 5.4M indexed citations. Papers published in The Lancet usually cover Surgery (8.4k papers), Epidemiology (8.1k papers) and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (6.0k papers) specifically the topics of Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (1.4k papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (1.3k papers) and Health and Conflict Studies (1.0k papers). The most active scholars publishing in The Lancet are DouglasG. Altman, J Martin Bland, Michael Marmot, Alan D López, Christopher J L Murray, B. Jennett, Stephen MacMahon, Margaret P. Rayman, Douglas G. Altman and Bryan Jennett.

In The Last Decade

The Lancet

55.6k papers receiving 4.8M citations

Countries where authors publish in The Lancet

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of research published in The Lancet. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in The Lancet with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites The Lancet more than expected).

Fields of papers published in The Lancet

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in The Lancet. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in The Lancet.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

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