About Emergency Medicine Journal
Aims and Scope
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 specialties involved in emergency care in the hospital and prehospital 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.
Editors |
Professor Geoff Hughes
Professor Kevin Mackway-Jones
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Editorial Office |
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Frequency |
12 times a year plus supplements |
Launch date |
1983 |
ISSN EMJ |
1472-0205 |
ISSN EMJ Online |
1472-0213 |
Readership |
Includes consultants in emergency medicine and their teams, clinicians in intensive care and their teams, paramedics, emergency nurses, toxicologists, orthopaedic surgeons, paediatricians, clinicians in elderly medicine, thoracic surgeons, cranial surgeons, radiologists, medical advisors to sporting organisations and behavioural psychologists. |
Print circulation |
3410 (84% UK including members of the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine, the British Association for Immediate Care and the Faculty of Prehospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; 4% USA and Canada; 5% Europe; 3% Far East and Australasia, 4% other) Not including online only or consortia customers |
Indexed by |
Index Medicus (Medline), ISI Current Contents (Web of Science), Excerpta Medica (Embase) |
Impact factor |
The impact factor is 1.347 (ISI Web of Science) (2008) |
Submitting to EMJ |
All papers must be submitted through Bench>Press, our online submission and review system. EMJ welcomes:
EMJ will consider rapid review and publication for articles of outstanding interest Supplementary data for articles and electronic correspondence are available on EMJ Online Further information is available in the Instructions to Authors and from the Editorial Office |
Lead times |
Time from submission to first decision: mean 6 weeks
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Acceptance rate |
22% |
Subscriptions |
Information on rates and how to subscribe - Personal print subscribers receive access to EMJ Online at no additional cost
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Rights |
Authors retain copyright for their own material. However, they must provide EMJ with an exclusive
licence to publish.
Authors receive a 10% royalty for any commercial reprint sales in excess of £1000 |
Permissions |
Material may not be reproduced in full or part in any medium or language without prior permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd Please refer to our Copyright and Permission Guidelines Authors may reproduce their own work in other publications and host on their own website or that of their institution (non-commercial only) without prior permission; we do ask that all material is clearly acknowledged with the original source and a link to the website included where possible |
Supplements |
Guidelines for publication of supplements to EMJ and other BMJ Journals For further details please contact Claire Jura:
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Advertising |
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COPE |
EMJ is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics |
Equator |
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Feedback |
EMJ welcomes feedback on the journal and this site |
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