Emergency Medicine Journal (formerly Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine) is a leading international journal of developments and advances in emergency medicine and critical care. It represents all specialities involved in emergency care in the hospital and pre-hospital environment. Each issue contains Editorials, Reviews, Original articles, Short reports, Research series, Best evidence topic reports, Journal scan, Prehospital care, Case reports, Letters, Book reviews and more.

EMJ is the journal of the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine and is the official journal of the British Association for Immediate Care and the Faculty of Prehospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Emergency Medicine Journal is committed to education and the publication of high quality research and educational material covering the breadth of Emergency Care. The requirements of clinicians vary within different settings and in different countries. EMJ seeks to satisfy these diverse needs. It is this principle that underlies the future planning of the journal and guides the editorial board and reviewers in making their judgements on whether papers submitted to the EMJ should be accepted or rejected.

Our policy is to provide a broad mix of articles that will be of educational value to doctors, nurses, paramedics and other clinicians involved in emergency care. EMJ will seek innovative and attractive ways to deliver a comprehensive programme of professional development.

Our priorities are to:

1. Publish up-to-date research in clinical care and education
2. Place an emphasis on the evidence base for care
3. Educational papers and materials
4. Harness the latest technologies to promote access to a full range of educational resources
5. Continue to develop specialist areas of publication that deal with pre- hospital and community emergency care
6. Develop areas of legal, ethical, ethnic and historical issues that are relevant to emergency care
7. Publish contentious issues that are of educational importance
8. Ensure that a fair, independent peer review system is in place
9. Adhere to the highest ethical standards concerning research conduct

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1. Median time from submission to first decision = 6 weeks
   1. 20% of papers rejected without external peer review within 1 week
2. Time from acceptance to publication = 4 months