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Lancet Digital Health
ISSN 2589-7500 · ELSEVIER · ENGLAND
Lancet Digital Health: CAS Zone 1 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 23.63; fully open access; APC about USD 7,860; median 286 days to acceptance (92 articles, last 24 months); 107 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Lancet Digital Health is published by ELSEVIER and is in Zone 1 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging and Machine Learning in Healthcare, together about 32.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Lancet Digital Health is committed to publishing high-quality original research, candid commentary, and correspondence contributing to promoting digital technologies in health practice worldwide by bringing together the most important advances in this multidisciplinary field. The journal publishes important, innovative, and practice-changing research on any topic connected with digital technology in clinical medicine, public health, and global health.The Lancet Digital Health serves the digital health, clinical, and wider health communities by promoting high-quality science and supporting the ethical use of technologies and data in practice. The journal's content crosses subject boundaries, building bridges between health professionals and researchers.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationMedicine17.2%
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingMedicine8%
- Machine Learning in HealthcareComputer Science7.4%
- Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsHealth Professions6.7%
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AIMedicine6.2%
- AI in cancer detectionComputer Science5.7%
- Telemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationMedicine5.2%
- Digital Mental Health InterventionsPsychology4.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Medical Informatics | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Medical Informatics | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Medical Informatics | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 23.63LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 25.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 36.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 36.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 6.22LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 5.77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 131OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 609OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 16.6OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.13%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 71LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,055 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 116 | 116 | 172 |
| 2025 | 107 | 107 | 1,623 |
| 2024 | 150 | 150 | 4,398 |
| 2023 | 141 | 141 | 8,504 |
| 2022 | 134 | 134 | 9,719 |
| 2021 | 139 | 139 | 13,311 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
286 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 124 days – 406 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 90 days (90 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 396 days
- Sample
- 92 articles with submission and acceptance dates (261 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 126 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 270 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 86 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 65 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 7,860 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 6,680 / EUR 6,250 / GBP 5,350 / JPY 828,520 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 5,780 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 7,860 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open Access
Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 7,860 (excluding taxes). Review this journal’s open access policy.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2589-7500
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Lancet Digital Health
What CAS zone is Lancet Digital Health in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Lancet Digital Health is in Zone 1 of Medicine, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Medical Informatics / Medicine, General & Internal; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Lancet Digital Health?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 23.63; CiteScore 36.6, h-index 131.
How long does peer review take at Lancet Digital Health?
Based on the dates recorded on 92 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 286 days (interquartile range 124–406 days); authors report an average review time of about 13 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Lancet Digital Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Lancet Digital Health is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Lancet Digital Health open access, and what is the APC?
Lancet Digital Health is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 7,860.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .