Journal Metrics

The Top 10 Emergency Medicine Journals to Publish your Research in 2024

Looking to publish your work in a top emergency medicine journal? Compare various journal metrics to pick the best one for your research.

After countless hours, your manuscript is finally ready to be published. As a researcher, you have to make the difficult decision of which journal to submit your manuscript too. So what are the top 10 emergency medicine journals in 2024?

What are journal metrics and what do they tell you about a journal

We should first start with an important caveat - journal metrics are only one factor that dictates what journal to choose: cost, open access status, turn-around-time, and journal focus are other important considerations. With that said, Journal Impact Factor is commonly used to measure the impact and importance of a journal in its field. This score is calculated based on the number of citations for an average article in the past 2 years.

Although Journal Impact Factor is one metric to determine a journal’s influence, it is not the only metric. The Immediacy Index helps determine the immediate impact of articles in the year of its publication. The Normalized Eigenfactor Score allows journals in a discipline to be compared based on their relative influence in the field. Similarly, the Article Influence Score uses the Eigenfactor Score to determine the average influence of a journal’s article in the first 5 years after publication. There is no one perfect metric for choosing a journal, but rather considering a combination of metrics will help you choose the journal best suited for your research.

Here are 10 of the top emergency medicine journals with a variety of metrics listed.

Top 10 emergency medicine journals by impact factor and open access status

Journal Name	Impact Factor	Immediacy Index	Normalized Eigenfactor	Article Influence Score	Average Publishing Time Frame	Publishing Options
Resuscitation	6.5	2.1	4.88222	1.889	- 6 days for 1st decision - 51 days from submission to publication	Hybrid
Burns & Trauma	6.3	1.1	0.52368	1.302	- 40 days for 1st decision - 158 days from submission to publication	Open access
World Journal of Emergency Surgery	6	1.3	1.0527	2.061	- 70 days from submission to publication	Open access
Emergencias	5.4	1.1	0.26115	0.661	N/A	Open access
Annals of Emergency Medicine	5	1.7	2.13318	2.055	- 12 days for first decision - 1 month from acceptance to online publication	Hybrid
Academic Emergency Medicine	3.4	0.7	1.53939	1.311	- 35 days to first decision - 63 days from first decision to final decision	Hybrid
European Journal of Emergency Medicine	3.1	1.2	0.41297	0.778	- 8 days for first decision	Hybrid
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation & Emergency Medicine	3	0.5	1.05844	1.072	- 91 days from submission to publication	Hybrid
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine	2.9	0.5	0.31193	0.67	- 14 days for first decision	Open access
American Journal of Emergency Medicine	2.7	0.5	4.2615	0.779	- 8 days for first decision - 59 days from submission to acceptance	Hybrid

*Data from Journal Citation Reports 2023

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