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The Lancet Digital Health

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1982

ISSN2589-7500eISSN2589-7500

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

6.221

H-Indexi

124

SNIPi

5.393

Total Worksi

987

Total Citationsi

56,634

2yr Mean Citednessi

13.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medical Informatics; Medicine, General & Internal; Decision Sciences (miscellaneous); Health Informatics; Health Information Management; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1982

FrequencyMonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications987

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

OA Since2018

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

Koninklijke BibliotheekPorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2589-7500 / 2589-7500

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Portico, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

111

8.6k

2019

157

18k

2020

139

13k

2021

134

9.5k

2022

141

8.3k

2023

150

4.2k

2024

107

1.4k

2025

104

122

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)Q1

Health InformaticsQ1

Health Information ManagementQ1

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medical InformaticsMedicine, General & Internal

Scopus Categories

Health Information ManagementHealth InformaticsMedicine (miscellaneous)Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingMachine Learning in HealthcareMobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsCOVID-19 diagnosis using AIAI in cancer detectionTelemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationDigital Mental Health InterventionsCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesRetinal Imaging and Analysis

Frequently asked questions about The Lancet Digital Health

Is The Lancet Digital Health a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for The Lancet Digital Health: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of The Lancet Digital Health?

The Lancet Digital Health is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 13.00.

Is The Lancet Digital Health indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

The Lancet Digital Health is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of The Lancet Digital Health?