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The Lancet — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of The Lancet is 109.0 (Q1 in Medicine, General & Internal; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 109.0 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Medicine, General & Internal
- Quartile
- Q1 in Medicine, General & Internal
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- Abbreviations
- Lancet
- IF source
- bioxbio.com
Position within the field
Ranked 1 of the 40 journals in Medicine, General & Internal on this site (top 10%).
Medicine, General & Internal journals with a similar Impact Factor
- New England Journal of Medicine IF 84.5
- JAMA IF 65.4
- BMJ IF 55.1
- Nature Medicine IF 52.5
- JAMA Internal Medicine IF 26.3
- Annals of Internal Medicine IF 17.2
About this value
The Lancet is abbreviated Lancet. The Journal Impact Factor of The Lancet (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 109.0. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Medicine, General & Internal.