Journal profile · Emergency Medicine
Academic Emergency Medicine
ISSN 1069-6563 · eISSN 1553-2712 · Wiley-Blackwell · UNITED STATES · Monthly · Founded 1994
Academic Emergency Medicine: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.02; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,900; median 70 days to acceptance (94 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 267 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Academic Emergency Medicine is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, together about 38.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Emergency Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) is the official monthly publication of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and publishes information relevant to the practice, educational advancements, and investigation of emergency medicine. It is the second-largest peer-reviewed scientific journal in the specialty of emergency medicine. The goal of AEM is to advance the science, education, and clinical practice of emergency medicine, to serve as a voice for the academic emergency medicine community, and to promote SAEM's goals and objectives. Members and non-members worldwide depend on this journal for translational medicine relevant to emergency medicine, as well as for clinical news, case studies and more. Each issue contains information relevant to the research, educational advancements, and practice in emergency medicine. Subject matter is diverse, including preclinical studies, clinical topics, health policy, and educational methods. The research of SAEM members contributes significantly to the scientific content and development of the journal.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Emergency Medicine
Editor-in-chief Jeffrey A. KlinePublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Emergency and Acute Care StudiesMedicine19.7%
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine10.3%
- Cardiac Arrest and ResuscitationMedicine8.2%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine5%
- Disaster Response and ManagementHealth Professions4.4%
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine3.8%
- Ultrasound in Clinical ApplicationsMedicine3.8%
- Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Emergency Medicine | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Emergency Medicine | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Emergency Medicine | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, Abstracts in Anthropology (Sage), Career & Technical Education Database (ProQuest), Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest), Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest), HEED: Health Economic Evaluations Database (Wiley-Blackwell), Hospital Premium Collection (ProQuest), Medical Database (ProQuest), Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest), ProQuest Central (ProQuest), Proquest Pharma Collection (ProQuest), Research Alert (Clarivate Analytics)
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.02LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 4.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.17LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.47LetPub ·
- h-index
- 110LetPub ·
- h-index
- 180OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 5,069OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.74OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 35.54%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 122LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 238Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 1,486,354Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 14,110 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 203 | 113 | 51 |
| 2025 | 267 | 154 | 356 |
| 2024 | 233 | 196 | 816 |
| 2023 | 234 | 204 | 1,327 |
| 2022 | 227 | 91 | 1,939 |
| 2021 | 281 | 163 | 2,934 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
70 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 34 days – 149 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (99 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 88 days
- Sample
- 94 articles with submission and acceptance dates (504 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 3–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 16%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 16%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 49 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 18 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,900 / EUR 3,240 / GBP 2,590 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access
SAEM members must be signed into saem.org to view articles. Model summary
For SAEM members, you must be signed into saem.org to view articles.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer-Review Coordinator
Taylor Bowen Tbowen@saem.org Tel: 434-218-3366 SAEM 1111 East Touhy Ave, Ste 540 Des Plaines, IL 60018 Phone: 847-257-7236 Fax: 847-813-5450 saem@saem.org
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1994
- ISSN
- 1069-6563
- Electronic ISSN
- 1553-2712
- Society / sponsor
- Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 33, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Academic Emergency Medicine
What CAS zone is Academic Emergency Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Academic Emergency Medicine is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Emergency Medicine. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Academic Emergency Medicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.02; CiteScore 4.8, h-index 180.
How long does peer review take at Academic Emergency Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 94 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 70 days (interquartile range 34–149 days); authors report an average review time of 3–8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 16% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Academic Emergency Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Academic Emergency Medicine is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Academic Emergency Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Academic Emergency Medicine is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,900.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-24). Last updated: .