the-lancet
Use when targeting The Lancet or deciding whether a clinical medicine or global-health manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-lancet --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# The Lancet (the-lancet) ## Journal positioning The Lancet is one of the world's oldest and most influential general medical journals, published by Elsevier. It publishes practice-changing and policy-changing clinical and global-health evidence, with an explicit commitment to health equity, global burden of disease, and the social determinants of health. The readership spans clinicians, public-health practitioners, policymakers, and health systems researchers worldwide. Papers that merely confirm existing practice without shifting guidelines or informing policy do not belong here. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the publisher's own site or submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names The Lancet as the target venue for a clinical trial, systematic review, or global-health analysis. - A manuscript has potential practice- or policy-changing implications but needs framing around equity, global-health burden, or health-systems impact. - A clinical-medicine paper needs to distinguish The Lancet's editorial culture
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the the-lancet skill do?
Use when targeting The Lancet or deciding whether a clinical medicine or global-health manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-lancet --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.