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Is Lancet the best medical journal?
The Lancet is an internationally trusted source of clinical, public health, and global health knowledge. The Lancet has an Impact Factor of 79·321 and ranks second among 169 general and internal medicine journals globally (2020 Journal Citation Reports ®, (Clarivate 2021).
Is the BMJ prestigious?
In the 2019 Journal Citation Reports, published in 2020, The BMJ’s impact factor was 30.223. ranking it fourth among general medical journals.
Is the Lancet a British medical journal?
The Lancet, British medical journal established in 1823. The journal’s founder and first editor was Thomas Wakley, considered at the time to be a radical reformer.
Who owns Lancet?
Elsevier
The Lancet has been owned by Elsevier since 1991, and its editor-in-chief since 1995 is Richard Horton. The journal has editorial offices in London, New York, and Beijing.
Are all Lancet articles peer reviewed?
All original research articles published in the Lancet journals have undergone independent, external peer review, including statistical review. If the paper is a randomised controlled trial, peer reviewers will also have access to the trial protocol.
Is The BMJ left wing?
Any time that The BMJ is critical of the current UK government can be dismissed as left wing propaganda; although, that would also mean that The BMJ had been a right wing propaganda machine in the past, when it published critical views on the Blair-Brown Government.
Who funds the Lancet journal?
The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era is supported by funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Who owns the Elsevier?
RELX
RELX Group plc
Elsevier/Parent organizations
RELX, the parent company of Elsevier, had revenues of US $9.8 billion in 2019. (Elsevier’s profits account for about 34\% of RELX’s total profits.) By contrast, Informa, Taylor & Francis’ parent company, had revenues of US $3.6 billion in 2019.
Is the Lancet the most cited journal in the world?
The Lancet was the most cited journal in the lay press of almost all analysed Western countries except the USA (which favoured NEJM) and the UK and Australia (where The BMJ ranked first).
Why don’t we bother with the NEJM?
We didn’t bother with the NEJM because its editor, Jeff Drazen, has in the past called one of us a Research Parasite, and likely would have a similar epithet for the other of us. So the breaking of the Surgisphere humbling of the Lancet was a moment of sheer delight.
What is the impact factor of the Lancet in 2013?
The Lancet itself has become a standard against which other journals are measured. The impact factor of this journal is 39.201 making it only second in the Journal Citation Reports in 2013. The subscription rates for The Lancet are US $ 293 for a year for Indian physicians.
What is the impact of the New England Journal of Medicine?
It is ranked 5th out of 150 with an impact factor of 16.04 according to the Journal Citation Reports. It is essentially an academic journal published monthly. It is also widely read which publishes breakthrough procedures and medications for a wide number of conditions.