The Lancet Planetary Health

The Lancet Planetary Health is a monthly gold open access journal published by Elsevier as part of The Lancet Group, launched in 2017 and dedicated to the interplay between human health and the state of the natural systems on which it depends, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 20.5《柳叶刀·星球健康》是由（Elsevier）作为（The Lancet Group）一部分出版的月刊金色开放获取期刊，2017 年创刊，致力于人类健康与其所依赖的自然系统状态之间的相互作用，2025 年影响因子为 20.5。

Scope

• It publishes high-quality original research, editorials, comments and correspondence on the interplay between health and the determinants of health in the living and physical world该刊刊载关于健康与生活及物理世界中健康决定因素之相互作用的高质量原创研究、社论、评论与通讯。
• It tackles the complex challenges that arise from the needs and interactions of people and the planet该刊力求应对由人类与地球的需求及其相互作用所引发的复杂挑战。
• Its content broadly encompasses sustainable development and global environmental change, including sustainability and environmental sciences其内容广泛涵盖可持续发展与全球环境变化，包括可持续性与环境科学。
• It covers public, environmental and occupational health, as well as the health dimensions of climate change and environmental degradation其涵盖公共卫生、环境与职业健康，以及气候变化与环境退化的健康维度。
• As a gold open access journal, every article is free to read online immediately on publication作为金色开放获取期刊，全部文章发表后即刻在线免费开放。
• It serves as a third open access pillar of The Lancet alongside The Lancet Global Health and The Lancet Public Health该刊与（The Lancet Global Health）（The Lancet Public Health）一道，构成（The Lancet）开放获取计划的第三大支柱。

History

• It was launched in 2017 as a new online-only title within The Lancet's open access programme该刊于 2017 年作为（The Lancet）开放获取计划中的全新在线刊物创刊。
• Its foundation was the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health, published in 2015其创办基础是 2015 年发布的洛克菲勒基金会-《柳叶刀》星球健康委员会报告。^[1]
• It was announced through a call for papers that described planetary health as a new discipline该刊以一篇征稿启事宣告创办，其中将星球健康称为一门新学科。^[2]
• Its first issue appeared in April 2017 as Volume 1, Issue 1其创刊号于 2017 年 4 月以第 1 卷第 1 期出版。
• Its impact factor was 28.75 in 2022, 21.6 in 2024 and 20.5 in 2025其影响因子 2022 年为 28.75，2024 年为 21.6，2025 年为 20.5。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it ranks fifth among 443 journals in public, environmental and occupational health在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，该刊在公共卫生、环境与职业健康类别的 443 种期刊中位列第五。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Alastair Brown, who has led the journal since May 2019现任主编为 Alastair Brown，自 2019 年 5 月起领导该刊。
• He previously worked at Nature Climate Change since its launch in 2010, overseeing climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation他此前自 2010 年（Nature Climate Change）创刊起任职，负责气候变化影响、脆弱性与适应方向。
• The deputy editor is John Carlson and the senior editor is Haoyu Wang副主编为 John Carlson，高级编辑为 Haoyu Wang。
• Its first Editor-in-Chief was Raffaella Bosurgi, who launched the journal in 2017其首任主编为 Raffaella Bosurgi，于 2017 年创办该刊。
• Original research is peer reviewed for clinical and statistical quality in the Lancet family style原创研究按（Lancet）家族惯例接受临床与统计质量同行评审。
• All content, including editorials and comments as well as research articles, is handled by the journal's in-house editorial team包括社论、评论与研究论文在内的全部内容，均由该刊内部编辑团队负责处理。