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The Lancet Planetary Health Template

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About the The Lancet Planetary Health format

The Lancet Planetary Health is a peer-reviewed journal published by Clinical & Medical Journals, covering Climate Change and Health Impacts, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging. Over its lifetime it has published 1,576 papers, which have received 76,529 citations.

PublisherClinical & Medical Journals
Reference styleNumbered (Vancouver)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2023;12(3):45–58.

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Publishes research inClimate Change and Health Impacts Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Zoonotic diseases and public health
ISSN2542-5196
Citation impact (2-yr)10.3
h-index136
i10-index793
Article processing charge$5,000
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Journal websitewww.journals.elsevier.com
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Papers published in The Lancet Planetary Health per year

2
2008
2
2010
1
2014
102
2017
166
2018
166
2019
143
2020
200
2021
183
2022
151
2023
181
2024
215
2025

Citation impact of The Lancet Planetary Health by publication year

1
2008
0
2010
0
2014
8K
2017
10.9K
2018
7.4K
2019
11.4K
2020
16.7K
2021
11.5K
2022
5.9K
2023
3.5K
2024
1.2K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The Lancet Planetary Health

Pollution and health: a progress update

Richard Fuller, Philip J. Landrigan, Kalpana Balakrishnan et al. · 17 May 2022

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find that…

2,039 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

Caroline Hickman, Elizabeth Marks, Panu Pihkala et al. · 1 Dec 2021

BACKGROUND: Climate change has important implications for the health and futures of children and young people, yet they have little power to limit its harm, making them vulnerable to climate anxiety. This is the first large-scale investigation of climate anxiety in children and young people globally and its relationship with perceived government response. METHODS: We…

2,006 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Manfred Lenzen, Arunima Malik, Mengyu Li et al. · 1 Jul 2020

BACKGROUND: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health. Previous studies have quantified the carbon emissions resulting from health care at a global level. We aimed to provide a global assessment of the wide-ranging environmental impacts of this sector.…

1,151 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Health care's response to climate change: a carbon footprint assessment of the NHS in England

Imogen Tennison, Sonia Roschnik, Ben Ashby et al. · 1 Feb 2021

BACKGROUND: Climate change threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public health. In response, the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been working since 2008 to quantify and reduce its carbon footprint. This Article presents the latest update to its greenhouse gas accounting, identifying interventions for mitigation efforts and describing an…

The impact of air pollution on deaths, disease burden, and life expectancy across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sagnik Dey, Tarun Gupta et al. · 6 Dec 2018

Background Air pollution is a major planetary health risk, with India estimated to have some of the worst levels globally. To inform action at subnational levels in India, we estimated the exposure to air pollution and its impact on deaths, disease burden, and life expectancy in every state of India in 2017. Methods We estimated…

The Lancet Planetary Health template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the The Lancet Planetary Health format?
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What reference style does The Lancet Planetary Health use?
The Lancet Planetary Health uses Numbered (Vancouver) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2023;12(3):45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to The Lancet Planetary Health?
No. DocuGuru generates the article LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a Clinical & Medical Journals-ready The Lancet Planetary Health document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
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What is The Lancet Planetary Health?
Clinical journal (generic ICMJE manuscript format). It is a life sciences and medicine journal, published by Clinical & Medical Journals.
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