Hi Sarah

 

I personally don’t think it’s fake news – when I found the article, it looks to be a genuine Lancet title and the journal evidently came into being in 2018.

 

For anyone who wants a look at the article it can be found at:

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370%2819%2930232-9

 

The journal homepage is at:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/home

 

They also have a Twitter page @EClinicalMed too for latest news from the journal.

 

As for the indexing issue, I’m not sure that I can help you with that one….would it be worth contacting someone in the editing team at Lancet for their view? On the home page it does state ‘Now indexed in DOAJ, PubMed Central, and Scopus: submit your original research today’.

 

And it looks as though you can sign up for email updates: https://info.thelancet.com/update-alerts

 

Regards

Sarah

 

 

Hi All

 

Happy Christmas Eve

 

I came across a story in the Daily Mail that talked about a sepsis calculator that I did a search on last week. I managed to find the article in a journal called EClinical Medicine which appears to be a Lancet journal.

 

The original article (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(19)30232-9/fulltext) is listed as first published on 22 Dec so would have missed my search by a few days. However, the article on searching appears to be undiscoverable except from the journal’s own website.

 

According to the journal’s website it indexes on Pubmed Central and the Directory of Open Access Journals, but the article is not yet on either. The journal does not appear on a journal title search on DOAJ.

 

I have tried searching for a few articles from older volumes of the journal, but can’t find the in PMC.

 

Raises questions to me as to how the Daily Mail got the original article, whether this journal is reputable, and how these article are discoverable if they are not indexed in a location we would normally search.

 

If anyone has any insights or just ponderings I’d be glad to hear them.

 

Regards

 

Sarah

 

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