The Lancet
This article is about the journal. For other uses, see Lancet. The Lancet Discipline Medicine Language English Edited by Richard Horton Publication details Publication history 1823–present Publisher Elsevier Frequency Weekly Open access Delayed Impact factor (2016) 47.831 Standard abbreviations Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) · ISO 4 (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt ) ISO 4 Lancet Indexing MIAR CODEN LANCAO ISSN 0140-6736 (print) 1474-547X (web) LCCN sf82002015 OCLC no. 01755507 Links Journal homepage Online access Webpage at publisher's site The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is among the world's oldest, most prestigious, and best known general medical journals. [1] The Lancet was founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley, an English surgeon who named it after the surgical instrument called a lancet, as well as after the architectural term "lancet arch", [2] a window with a sharp pointed arch, to indicate the "light of wisdom" or ...