About
Acceptance Rate
18%
Time to first decision
28 days*
Time from acceptance to publication
25 days*
Impact Factor (JCR)
2.794
2020 total content views
2,029,710
2020 total Altmetric mentions
3,977
Aims and scope
The Emergency Medicine Journal is a leading international journal reporting developments and advances in emergency medicine and acute care. It has relevance to all specialties involved in the management of emergencies in the hospital and prehospital environment. Each issue contains editorials, reviews, original research, evidence based reviews, letters and more.
For information about the Editor-in-Chief and editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Plan S compliance
The Emergency Medicine Journal is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Transformative Journals are one of the compliance routes offered by cOAlition S funders, such as Wellcome, WHO and UKRI. Find out more about Transformative Journals and  Plan S compliance on our Author Hub.
Journal information
| Ownership | EMJ is co-owned by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and BMJ. For more information please refer to the Affiliations section below |
|---|---|
| Publication Model | Subscription; with hybrid open access option |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Launch date | 1983 |
| Digital Archives | Portico, LOCKSS |
| Indexed by | Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded; Current Contents: Clinical Medicine, MEDLINE (Index Medicus), PubMed Central (BMJ Open Access Special Collection), Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), CINHAHL, Google Scholar |
| Peer Review Model | Single blind; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author |
| Print ISSN | 1472-0205 |
| Online ISSN | 1472-0213 |
Journal Statistics (2020)
Acceptance rate: 18%
Speed
Days to first decision: 28 days (mean)
Days from acceptance to publication: 25 days (mean)
Impact
Impact Factor category: Emergency Medicine
Impact Factor (JCR): 2.794
Impact Factor rank (JCR): 11/32
5 Year Impact Factor: 3.155
Journal Citation Indicator: 1.26
Eigenfactor: 0.00701
Citescore: 3.4
Citescore rank: 17/80
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.708
Reach
2020 total content views: 2,029,710
2020 total Altmetric mentions: 3,977
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
Contact information
For all contact information please refer to the Contact Us page.
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Rights and permissions
Affiliations
BASICS (optional benefit)
Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Faculty of Prehospital Care
Members of the following organisations are entitled to a discounted subscription to EMJ:
Danish Society for Emergency Medicine
Irish Society for Immediate Care
Swedish Society for Emergency Medicine
The BMJ Publishing Group is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting accurate, transparent reporting of research studies. The BMJ Group is a sponsor of its activities.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.