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The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 64.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2468-1253Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$7,280 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gastroenterology | 1 / 176 | 99th | Q1 |
| Hepatology | 1 / 88 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 64.3.
The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology is Q1 in Gastroenterology (rank 1 of 176) and Q1 in Hepatology (rank 1 of 88), by CiteScore 2025.
The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology 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 64.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 13.113, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 141.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$7,280 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 Gastroenterology and Hepatology is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2468-1253.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology has an h-index of 173 and a 2-year mean of 12.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 64.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 172 Scopus journals in Gastroenterology.
The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology published 223 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 278. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (15.8%), United Kingdom (14.3%) and Australia (8.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (2.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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