World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
The Lancet Rheumatology
H-index 62

The Lancet Rheumatology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Immunology 22 135 160 44
Medicine 150 379 381 60

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 570
Documents by Best Scientists*: 449
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 14
SCIMAGO H-index: 61
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.837
Impact Factor: 16.4

Top Publications

  • Global, regional, and national burden of low back pain, 1990–2020, its attributable risk factors, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    Unknown

    (2023)
    1509 Citations
  • Interleukin-1 blockade with high-dose anakinra in patients with COVID-19, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and hyperinflammation: a retrospective cohort study.

    Giulio Cavalli;Giacomo De Luca;Corrado Campochiaro;Emanuel Della-Torre

    (2020)
    1018 Citations
  • Tocilizumab in patients with severe COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study

    Giovanni Guaraldi;Marianna Meschiari;Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri;Jovana Milic

    (2020)
    1005 Citations
  • Immune mechanisms of pulmonary intravascular coagulopathy in COVID-19 pneumonia

    Dennis McGonagle;Dennis McGonagle;James S O'Donnell;Kassem Sharif;Paul Emery;Paul Emery

    (2020)
    804 Citations
  • Anakinra for severe forms of COVID-19: a cohort study

    Thomas Huet;Hélène Beaussier;Olivier Voisin;Stéphane Jouveshomme

    (2020)
    626 Citations
  • Global, regional, and national burden of osteoarthritis, 1990–2020 and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    (2023)
    396 Citations
  • Tocilizumab among patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit: a multicentre observational study.

    Noa Biran;Andrew Ip;Jaeil Ahn;Ronaldo C Go

    (2020)
    294 Citations

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