Journal profile · EMERGENCY MEDICINE
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
ISSN 2211-419X · eISSN 2211-4203 · ELSEVIER · NETHERLANDS
African Journal of Emergency Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.31; fully open access; APC about USD 2,140; median 142 days to acceptance (102 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 35% (journal website); 83 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
African Journal of Emergency Medicine is published by ELSEVIER and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Emergency and Acute Care Studies and Disaster Response and Management, together about 48.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Emergency Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Produced and hosted by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine. Peer review under the responsibility of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine.The African Journal of Emergency Medicine (AfJEM) is the official journal of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine. It is an Africa-centric, peer-reviewed journal aimed in particular at supporting emergency care across, you guessed it, Africa. AfJEM publishes original research, reviews, brief reports of scientific investigations, as well as commentary and correspondence related to topics of scientific, ethical, social and economic importance to emergency care in Africa. Articles will be of direct importance to African emergency care, but may have originated from elsewhere in the world.AfJEM publishes manuscripts of international quality. This is ensured through a process of rigorous peer-review (see below) where manuscripts are evaluated for accuracy, novelty and importance. It is however recognised that African researchers in emergency care are disadvantaged in the available range of journals into which they can publish their work. The editorial team is aware that this is due to many reasons, including that topics pertinent to LMIC contexts are often considered too basic for western Emergency Medicine journals, or that topics are concerned with conditions which are largely irrelevant to those audiences. Furthermore, the quality of submitted manuscripts is often lower than acceptable international journal standards due to inadequate research training. AfJEM is dedicated to support all authors who wish to make an attempt at publication on an African Emergency care topic. In order to drive the emerging field on the continent, we actively strive for strong African authorship and co-authorship in submissions to the journal. While all authors must meet the ICJME criteria [link] for authorship, we encourage international (non-African) authors to collaborate with African researchers to strengthen local research capacity and provide essential regional perspectives and expertise. As part of this commitment, we aim for at least 25% of the journal’s published authorship to be African citizens or permanent residents.AfJEM is uniquely tailored to the needs and requirements of emergency care workers dedicated to improving emergency medicine in Africa. AfJEM specifically aims to address resource limitations as it pertains to the African continent. It will be ideal reading material for physicians, nurses and pre-hospital care workers wishing to improve their knowledge on general emergency medicine, trauma care, paediatrics, injury and disease prevention, service improvement, policy and ethics, disaster preparedness and response, and all other aspects of emergency care. In keeping with the African Federation for Emergency Medicine, it is our aim to be recognised as the international voice of quality emergency medical care in Africa.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Editor-in-chief Peter W HodkinsonPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named South Africa 24, United States 8, Canada 6, United Kingdom 3, Hong Kong, China 2 (52 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine24.9%
- Emergency and Acute Care StudiesMedicine16%
- Disaster Response and ManagementHealth Professions7.4%
- Cardiac Arrest and ResuscitationMedicine7.2%
- Global Health and SurgeryMedicine5.5%
- Injury Epidemiology and PreventionMedicine5.4%
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine4%
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine2.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Emergency Medicine | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Emergency Medicine | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Emergency Medicine | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 1.31LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.43LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.72LetPub ·
- h-index
- 40OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 283OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.25OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 54LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,067 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 80 | 80 | 25 |
| 2025 | 83 | 83 | 88 |
| 2024 | 50 | 50 | 153 |
| 2023 | 68 | 68 | 320 |
| 2022 | 80 | 80 | 634 |
| 2021 | 59 | 59 | 582 |
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 PubMed · to
142 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 97 days – 203 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (102 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 164 days
- Sample
- 102 articles with submission and acceptance dates (159 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)
- about 17 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 35%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 49 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 114 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 25 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,140 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,140 / EUR 2,000 / GBP 1,710 / JPY 265,420 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 1,350 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,310 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 300 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 3,000 words
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional, 2
Article types accepted12
- abbreviated paperReports of preliminary data and findings or studies with small numbers demonstrating the need for further investigation.Length not stated
- case reportSubmissions in both English and French are accepted. French submissions require the title and abstract to be submitted in both English and French. AfJEM no long…Length not stated
- correspondenceDiscussion, observations, opinions, corrections, and comments on topics appearing in AfJEM; very brief reports or other items of interest.Length not stated
- editorialsAuthoritative comments or opinions on major current problems of emergency physicians or on controversial matters with significant implications for emergency med…Length not stated
- meta-analysisSubmissions in both English and French are accepted. French submissions require the title and abstract to be submitted in both English and French. AfJEM no long…Length not stated
- original articleSubmissions in both English and French are accepted. French submissions require the title and abstract to be submitted in both English and French. AfJEM no long…Length not stated
- regional newsAfJEM and AFEM will be inviting authors from different regions and countries around the continent to take the opportunity to share the progress of the specialit…Length not stated
- research reportSubmissions in both English and French are accepted. French submissions require the title and abstract to be submitted in both English and French. AfJEM no long…Length not stated
- reviewSubmissions in both English and French are accepted. French submissions require the title and abstract to be submitted in both English and French. AfJEM no long…Length not stated
- review articleSubmissions in both English and French are accepted. French submissions require the title and abstract to be submitted in both English and French. AfJEM no long…Length not stated
- review articlesExtensive reviews of the literature on a narrow clinical topic.Length not stated
- systematic reviewSubmissions in both English and French are accepted. French submissions require the title and abstract to be submitted in both English and French. AfJEM no long…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- AI use Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing
Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI tools”) have been rapidly adopted in research and scholarly publishing, offering significant benefits while requiring clear standards for responsible and transparent use.Authors preparing a manuscript for this journal may use AI tool…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be submitted. . Authors are required to state their contribution to the manuscript, as s…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of interest
Collate conflicts of interest in a separate section at the end of the article before the acknowledgements and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. If no conflict of interest exists please state: The author(s) declare no conflict of interest Conflicts of interests that require disclosure include, but are not limited to:a. Associations with comm…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
COPE member Model summary
AfJEM is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which advises on the management of cases where research or publication misconduct occurred
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access (OA)
Please visit our Open Access page for more information. On publication, articles are made freely available to all (including non-subscribers) via the ScienceDirect platform. Learn more about Elsevier's pricing policy: https://www.elsevier.com/openaccesspricing
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review and Referees
Double anonymized review Model summary
Each paper submitted to the journal is firstly checked for completeness and similarity by the technical editor followed by an initial desk review by an editor-in-chief. Papers not suitable for publication are either rejected outright. Papers accepted for peer review are then assigned to an associate editor who takes responsibility for assigning peer reviewers and providing a synthesis of reviews t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
iThenticate plagiarism screening Model summary
AfJEM is a member of iThenticate. iThenticate is a plagiarism screening service that verifies the originality of content submitted before publication.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint references
Where a preprint has subsequently become available as a peer-reviewed publication, the formal publication should be used as the reference. If there are preprints that are central to your work or that cover crucial developments in the topic, but are not yet formally published, these may be referenced. Preprints should be clearly marked as such, for example by including the word preprint, or the nam…
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
- ELSEVIER
- Country or region
- NETHERLANDS
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2211-419X
- Electronic ISSN
- 2211-4203
- Society / sponsor
- African Federation for Emergency Medicine
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about African Journal of Emergency Medicine
What CAS zone is African Journal of Emergency Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, African Journal of Emergency Medicine is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Emergency Medicine. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of African Journal of Emergency Medicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.31; CiteScore 2.5, h-index 40.
How long does peer review take at African Journal of Emergency Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 102 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 142 days (interquartile range 97–203 days); authors report an average review time of about 17 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 35%. 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of African Journal of Emergency Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 3,000 words; Suggested reviewers: Optional, 2. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of African Journal of Emergency Medicine based?
Of the 52 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are South Africa (24), United States (8) and Canada (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index African Journal of Emergency Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, African Journal of Emergency Medicine is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is African Journal of Emergency Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
African Journal of Emergency Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,140.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .