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About The Lancet Infectious Diseases medical journal

History

The Lancet Infectious Diseases was launched in August, 2001, and is a lively monthly journal of review, opinion, and news covering international issues relevant to clinical infectious diseases specialists worldwide.

The journal's most highly cited reviews include:

  • West Nile virus. Campbell GL, Marfin AA, Lanciotti RS, Gubler DJ.Full Text
  • Anti-tumour necrosis factor agents and tuberculosis risk. Gardam MA, Keystone EC, Menzies R, et al.Full Text
  • Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Hiramatsu K.Full Text
  • Community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Zetola N, Francis JS, Nuermberger EL, Bishai WR.Full Text
  • Epidemiology of Candida species infections in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients. Eggimann P, Garbino J, Pittet D.Full Text
  • Immune reconstitution disease associated with mycobacterial infections in HIV-infected individuals receiving antiretrovirals. Lawn SD, Bekker L-G, Miller RF.Full Text
  • The global distribution and population at risk of malaria. Hay SI, Guerra CA, Tatem AJ, Noor AM, Snow RW.Full Text
  • Vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Bonten MJ, Willems R, Weinstein RA.Full Text
  • Fluoroquinolone resistance among Gram-positive cocci. Hooper DC.Full Text
  • Confronting the avian influenza threat: vaccine development for a potential pandemic. Stephenson I, Nicholson KG, Wood JM, Zambon MC, Katz JM.Full Text
  • Treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease. Aslam S, Hamill RJ, Musher DM.Full Text
  • The aetiology, origins, and diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Poon LLM, Guan Y, Nicholls JM, Yuen KY, Peiris JSM.Full Text
  • International standards for tuberculosis care. Hopewell PC, Pai M, Maher D, Uplekar M, Raviglione MC.Full Text

In 2006, The Lancet Infectious Diseases convened a conference in Singapore: Preparing for Pandemic Influenza: The Avian Dimension and Other Emerging Threats, which brought together key health administrators, experts from the medical and scientific communities, as well as industry representatives to address this critical public health issue.

Reputation and Impact

The Lancet Infectious Diseases' impact factor of 15.583 is the highest of all infectious diseases journals (ISI Journal Citation Reports, 2009).

Coverage

The aim of The Lancet Infectious Diseases is to publish interesting and informative reviews on any topic connected with infectious diseases and human health. Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Anti-infective therapy
  • Bacterial infections
  • Gastrointestinal infections
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Neurological infections
  • Paediatric infections
  • Parasitic and fungal infections
  • Respiratory tract infections
  • Sexually transmitted infections
  • Tuberculosis and mycobacterial infections
  • Tropical/travel medicine
  • Urinary tract infections
  • Viral infections

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About the Editor

John McConnell has been an editor at The Lancet since 1990, and was founding Editor of The Lancet Infectious Diseases in 2001.

Contact: +44 (0)20 7424 4910; email IDeditorial@lancet.com.

For Authors

The journal publishes a range of article types that encompass all aspects of infectious diseases and medicine: Reflection and Reaction, Newsdesk, Media Watch, Reportage, Review, Historical Review, Personal View, Forum, Grand Round, and Clinical Picture. The Lancet Infectious Diseases does not publish original research.

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The journal has an online submission and peer review website (EES). To submit a paper, point your internet browser to http://ees.elsevier.com/thelancetid and follow the on-screen instructions. If you have not used EES previously, you first need to visit the site and register. In EES, the corresponding author is the person who enters the manuscript details and uploads the submission files. Inclusion of illustrations (photographs, graphs, diagrams, etc) is a prerequisite for publication. Digital photography files should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi and be at least 75 mm wide. Please do not import illustrations into PowerPoint or Word if they have originally been created in other software. Do not send any figures as bitmaps.

First submissions to The Lancet Infectious Diseases should include: covering letter, manuscript, figures, conflicts of interest statements, acknowledgments, and personal communications. We encourage disclosure of correspondence from other journals and reviewers, if previously submitted, and we might contact relevant editors of such journals.

Should your paper be selected for further consideration, we will then ask you to send copies of the following documents: covering letter (signed by all authors), conflicts of interest statements, signed patient consent and permission to publish, acknowledgments (written consent of cited individual), personal communications (written consent of cited individual), and use of copyright-protected material (signed permission statements from original publishers).

To minimise delays in the peer-review process, we strongly advise that the signed copies of these documents are prepared before you submit your manuscript.