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The Lancet Digital Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 36.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2589-7500Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Informatics | 1 / 168 | 99th | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 2 / 466 | 99th | Q1 |
| Decision Sciences (miscellaneous) | 1 / 46 | 98th | Q1 |
| Health Information Management | 3 / 64 | 96th | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 36.6.
The Lancet Digital Health is Q1 in Health Informatics (rank 1 of 168), Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 2 of 466) and Q1 in Decision Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 1 of 46), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
The Lancet Digital Health is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 36.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.221, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 102.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$6,680 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
The Lancet Digital Health is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2589-7500.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
The Lancet Digital Health has an h-index of 131 and a 2-year mean of 16.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 36.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 151 Scopus journals in Health Informatics.
The Lancet Digital Health published 107 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 157. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (27.1%), United Kingdom (16.4%) and China (10.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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