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The Present editor-in-chief is Richard Horton . ''The Lancet'' is, and has been, outspoken on several important medical issues - recent examples include criticism of the WHO in the African Malaria project, initially accepting and then rejecting the efficacy of Homoeopathy as a therapeutic option and its disapproval of Reed Elsevier 's links with the Arms Industry . IMPACT ''The Lancet'' has a significant readership throughout the world with a high Impact Factor . It publishes original research articles, review articles ("seminars" and "reviews"), editorials, book reviews, correspondences, amidst other regulars such as news and corrigenda. ''The Lancet'' is considered to be one of the "core" general medical journals; the others being the '' New England Journal Of Medicine '', the '' Journal Of The American Medical Association '', and the '' British Medical Journal ''. However, it was subject to severe criticism after Dr. Horton, in an editorial, endorsed a possible link between MMR Vaccine and Autism , a matter of Continuing Controversy . He subsequently went on record to apologise for his position and admitted the journal's failure to note serious conflict of interest. When it published an estimate of Iraq civilian death toll - one hundred thousand - just two days before the November 2004 US Presidential Elections, it was accused of being political, and once again, Dr. Horton was accused of "scare-mongering". DATA FABRICATION SCANDAL In January 2006, it was revealed that data had been fabricated in an article by the cancer researcher '' published an expression of editorial concern regarding another research paper published on a similar topic in the journal. JOURNALS FAMILY ''The Lancet'' has now given birth to a few sub-speciality journals, all bearing the parent title - ''The Lancet Neurology'' ( Neurology ), '''''The Lancet Oncology''''' ( Oncology ) and '''''The Lancet Infectious Diseases''''' ( Infectious Disease s). All of them have established significant reputations as medical journals, though most started out publishing only review articles. EXTERNAL LINKS
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