The Lancet Global Health

The Lancet Global Health is a monthly open access journal published by Elsevier as part of The Lancet Group, founded in 2013 and dedicated to global health, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 22.5《柳叶刀：全球健康》是由爱思唯尔（Elsevier）作为（The Lancet Group）一部分出版的月刊开放获取期刊，2013 年创办，致力于全球健康研究，2025 年影响因子为 22.5。

Scope

• It publishes high-quality original research, commentary and correspondence focused on health in low-income and middle-income countries and disadvantaged populations该刊刊载高质量原创研究、评论与通讯，聚焦低收入与中等收入国家以及弱势人群的健康问题。
• Its priority topics include reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health, and infectious diseases such as neglected tropical diseases其优先主题包括生殖、孕产妇、新生儿、儿童与青少年健康，以及被忽视热带病等传染病。
• Further priorities are non-communicable diseases, mental health, the global health workforce, health systems, surgery, health policy and public health其他重点包括非传染性疾病、心理健康、全球卫生人力、卫生系统、外科、卫生政策与公共卫生。
• Each monthly online issue is free of subscription charges, so readers and authors worldwide can access all content at no cost每期月度在线刊物免订阅费，全球读者与作者均可免费获取全部内容。
• All original research is subjected to The Lancet's usual rigorous external clinical and statistical peer review and is copy-edited to high standards所有原创研究均接受《柳叶刀》一贯严格的临床与统计外审，并按要求高标准编校。
• It also publishes large Commissions and Series, such as the 2018 Lancet Global Health Commission on high-quality health systems该刊还刊载大型委员会报告与系列专题，例如 2018 年关于高质量卫生系统的《柳叶刀全球健康》委员会报告。^[1]

History

• It was launched in June 2013 as a new open access online title from The Lancet该刊于 2013 年 6 月作为《柳叶刀》推出的新开放获取在线子刊创刊。
• Its founding Editor-in-Chief was Zoe Mullan, who previously served as deputy editor of The Lancet其创始主编为 Zoe Mullan，此前曾任《柳叶刀》副主编。
• It belongs to The Lancet Group of specialty journals, which also includes The Lancet Oncology, The Lancet Infectious Diseases and The Lancet Neurology该刊隶属（The Lancet Group）的专科期刊系列，该系列还包括《柳叶刀·肿瘤学》《柳叶刀·传染病》与《柳叶刀·神经病学》。
• It is published online only and, unlike much of the Lancet family, is fully open access该刊仅以在线形式出版，且与柳叶刀家族多数刊物不同，为完全开放获取。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 22.5, and it ranks fourth among 443 journals in public, environmental and occupational health其 2025 年影响因子为 22.5，在公共卫生、环境与职业健康类别的 443 种期刊中位列第四。
• Its impact factor moved from 38.927 in 2022 and 18.0 in 2024 to 22.5 in 2025其影响因子由 2022 年的 38.927、2024 年的 18.0 变化到 2025 年的 22.5。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Zoe Mullan, who has led the journal since its founding in 2013现任主编为 Zoe Mullan，自 2013 年该刊创办起一直执掌。
• She trained in biochemistry at the University of Bath and previously worked as deputy editor of The Lancet她曾在巴斯大学（University of Bath）学习生物化学，并曾任《柳叶刀》副主编。
• She also serves as Inclusion and Diversity Lead for The Lancet Group and is an ex-officio board member of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health她同时担任（The Lancet Group）的包容与多元化负责人，并任（Consortium of Universities for Global Health）的当然委员。
• She is a scientific advisory board member of the Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin她还是柏林（Robert Koch Institute）国际卫生保护中心的科学顾问委员会成员。
• Between 2013 and 2017 she was a council member and trustee of the Committee on Publication Ethics2013 年至 2017 年间，她曾任（Committee on Publication Ethics，COPE）理事会成员与受托人。
• The journal is supported by an international advisory board, and every original research article undergoes external clinical and statistical peer review该刊设有国际顾问委员会，且每篇原创研究文章发表前均接受临床与统计方面的外部同行评审。