BMJ Best Practice vs The Lancet — Discipline
How rigorously each source backs its factual claims with verifiable evidence.
The Lancet outscores BMJ Best Practice on Citation Discipline by 3 points (A+ · 95 vs A · 92).
BMJ Best Practice
Evidence-graded recommendations; references explicit; updated continuously by clinical editorial team.
The Lancet
Peer-review enforced; methodology + data disclosure increasingly mandatory; retraction watch active.
Global rank · Discipline
Why these Discipline scores
Evidence-graded recommendations; references explicit; updated continuously by clinical editorial team.
Peer-review enforced; methodology + data disclosure increasingly mandatory; retraction watch active.
Signals behind the Discipline score
- Evidence gradingGRADE methodology applied; references per claim with strength rating.
- Peer reviewEditor + ≥2 reviewer cycles before publication.
Other dimensions for BMJ Best Practice vs The Lancet
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Sources & references
Every score on this page is read from the two publications below and graded against the published rubric. No score is bought, estimated or supplied by the source being scored.
- Source evaluated — BMJ Best Practice (bestpractice.bmj.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Source evaluated — The Lancet (thelancet.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Scoring rubric — SourceScore Index, Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, Citation Velocity (methodology v0.1)
- Machine-readable record — /api/compare/bmj-best-practice-vs-the-lancet/discipline.json