The Lancet Regional Health-Europe

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe is a gold open access peer-reviewed general medical journal published by Elsevier as part of The Lancet's regional health initiative, covering clinical practice and health policy in the European region, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 15.7《柳叶刀-区域健康（欧洲）》是（Elsevier）出版的完全开放获取同行评审综合医学期刊，隶属（The Lancet）区域健康计划，覆盖欧洲区域的临床实践与卫生政策，2025 年影响因子为 15.7。

Scope

• It is a gold open access journal and part of The Lancet's global initiative to advocate for health-care quality and access in all regions of the world该刊为完全开放获取期刊，隶属（The Lancet）倡导全球各区域卫生保健质量与可及性的全球计划。
• It fosters the advance of clinical practice and health policy in the European region, with the goal of improving health outcomes该刊推动欧洲区域临床实践与卫生政策的进步，目标是改善健康结局。
• It publishes high-quality original research that advocates change in, or illuminates, clinical practice and health policy in the European region该刊发表高质量的原创研究，倡导或阐明欧洲区域临床实践与卫生政策的变革。^[1]
• It also features relevant reviews, commentaries and opinion pieces pertaining to regional health topics该刊还刊载与区域健康主题相关的综述、评论与观点文章。
• Its regional health topics include prevention and management of infections and non-communicable diseases其区域健康主题包括感染性疾病与非传染性疾病的预防与管理。^[2]
• Other topics include the improvement of healthy ageing and the reduction of health inequalities其他主题包括改善健康老龄化与减少健康不平等。

History

• It was launched in 2020 as part of The Lancet's regional health initiative covering six regions of the world该刊于 2020 年作为（The Lancet）覆盖全球六个区域的区域健康计划的一部分创办。
• Its first issue appeared as Volume 1 in February 2021其创刊号于 2021 年 2 月作为第 1 卷出版。
• It is published by Elsevier as part of the Lancet Group of journals该刊由（Elsevier）出版，隶属（The Lancet）期刊集团。
• It is a gold open access journal, with articles immediately and permanently free to read该刊为完全开放获取期刊，文章即时且永久免费阅读。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 13.0 in 2024 and 15.7 in 2025其影响因子 2024 年为 13.0，2025 年为 15.7。
• It ranks Q1 in Health Care Sciences & Services, standing second among 194 journals in 2025其 2025 年在卫生保健科学与服务类别位列 Q1，在 194 种期刊中排名第二。

Editors

• Its Editor-in-Chief is Pooja Jha, PhD其主编为（Pooja Jha），拥有博士学位。
• Before this role she was an editor of Nature Metabolism at Nature Research in Berlin出任该职之前，她是柏林（Nature Research）旗下（Nature Metabolism）的编辑。
• She contributed to the launch of Nature Metabolism from 2018她自 2018 年起参与（Nature Metabolism）的创刊工作。
• The journal is edited within the Lancet Group and shares the group's editorial standards该刊在（The Lancet）集团内编辑，并共享集团的编辑标准。
• It belongs to the Lancet Group's portfolio of gold open access regional health journals该刊隶属（The Lancet）集团的金色开放获取区域健康期刊组合。