Journal profile · EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine
ISSN 2383-4625 · Korean Society of Emergency Medicine · Korea, Republic of
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.4 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 60 days to acceptance (88 articles, last 24 months); 51 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus; the journal's website says it has moved to a new publisher.
The journal's website says it has moved to a new publisher: CEEM provides the electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content in the event the journal is no longer published by archiving in PubMed Central (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/3081/) and the National Library of Korea (https://www.nl.go.kr). Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine is published by Korean Society of Emergency Medicine 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 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies and Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, together about 37.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Emergency Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine (CEEM) is the official peer-reviewed, open-access, quarterly journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine. CEEM focuses on both basic and clinical research of emergency medicine including pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and simulation. CEEM accepts editorials, original articles, reviews, study protocol, letters to the editor, case reports, interesting images in related areas and more. CEEM will be of interest to healthcare professionals in acute care and emergency medicine, pediatric emergency medicine, emergency medical services, emergency procedures, cardiology, neurology, resuscitation, trauma, education, emergency nurses, and so on. CEEM is one of the only journals that covers basic and clinical research fields entirely focusing on acute care and emergency medicine.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Editor-in-chief Adam J. SingerPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named South Korea 51, United States 19, Canada 2, Hong Kong, China 1, Taiwan, China 1 (78 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiac Arrest and ResuscitationMedicine18.8%
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine9.4%
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine9.2%
- Emergency and Acute Care StudiesMedicine6.9%
- Airway Management and Intubation TechniquesMedicine4.9%
- Simulation-Based Education in HealthcareMedicine4.1%
- Ultrasound in Clinical ApplicationsMedicine3.9%
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine3.6%
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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Emergency Medicine | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PMCPubMedPublisher website
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 (publisher)
- 3.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.83LetPub ·
- h-index
- 37OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 220OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.87OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.21%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 43LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 688 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 57 | 57 | 15 |
| 2025 | 51 | 51 | 63 |
| 2024 | 72 | 72 | 258 |
| 2023 | 78 | 78 | 727 |
| 2022 | 70 | 70 | 412 |
| 2021 | 56 | 56 | 640 |
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
60 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 23 days – 102 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 92 days (88 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 158 days
- Sample
- 88 articles with submission and acceptance dates (122 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 20 weeksLetPub ·
- First decision after review
- 22 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 99 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 54 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 4,000 words
Article types accepted4, with length limits
- commentaryy of formats (e.g., audio, text, etc.). Commentaries will include discussion about a recent study or an important issue in emergency medicine (maximum 1,500 wor…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- editorialle information, and tables and figures. Editorials should not exceed 1,500 words and should not include more than 5 figures and/or tables. Tmain text ≤ 1,500 words
- letterle information, and tables and figures. Letters should not exceed 1,000 words and should not include more than 2 figures and/or tables. Tmain text ≤ 1,000 words
- mini review0 references, 5 tables and/or figures). Mini reviews should not exceed 1,500 words, 30 references, and 5 tables and/or figures. Table 1 showsmain text ≤ 1,500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- AI use C. Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Assisted Technologies
The journal has adopted policies, as specified by the ICMJE, regarding the use of AI in the preparation of materials intended for publication in the journal. Generative AI, including language models, chatbots, image creators, machine learning, or similar technologies, may be employed to enhance readability and language accuracy in scientific writing. However, chatbots or other AI-assisted technolo…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship B. Authorship and Author’s Responsibility
Authors are responsible for the whole content of each article. Co-authorship should be based on the following four criteria: (1) substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; (2) drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; (3) final approval of the version to be published;…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest H. Conflict of Interest
A conflict of interest may exist when an author (or the author’s institution or employer) has financial or personal relationships or affiliations that could bias the author’s decisions regarding the manuscript. Authors are expected to provide detailed information about all relevant financial interests and relationships or financial conflicts, particularly those present at the time the research was…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability C. Data Sharing
CEEM encourages data sharing wherever possible, unless this is prevented by ethical, privacy, or confidentiality matters. Authors wishing to do so may deposit their data in a publicly accessible repository and include a link to the digital object identifier (DOI) within the text of the manuscript. CEEM adheres to the data sharing statement policy in ICMJE Recommendations for Clinical Trials (http:…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright A. Copyright
The copyright of all published materials is owned by the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access B. Open Access Policy
CEEM is an open access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. Thus, when using the tables or figures of CEEM in other journals or books for scholarly…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review VI. Review Process of CEEM
1. The submitted manuscript will first be evaluated at the Editorial Office regarding the completeness of the submitted materials and their suitability to CEEM. Modifications/corrections may be requested from the authors at this stage before starting the peer review. 2. Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by the editors, as well as two to three peer reviewers who are experts in the su…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints E. Preprint Policy
A preprint can be defined as a version of a scholarly paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. CEEM allows authors to submit preprints to the journal. It is not treated as duplicate submission or duplicate publication. CEEM recommends that authors disclose the existence of a preprint with its DOI in the letter to the editor during the submission …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines B. Reporting Guidelines for Specific Study Designs
For the specific study design, such as randomized controlled studies, studies of diagnostic accuracy, meta-analyses, observational studies, and nonrandomized studies, it is recommended that the authors follow the reporting guidelines listed in the following table. If Table 2 does not include the study design relevant to the research design, authors are encouraged to consult other reporting guideli…
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
- Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
- Country or region
- Korea, Republic of
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2383-4625
- Society / sponsor
- Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13 (June 2026)
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine
What CAS zone is Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Clinical and Experimental 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 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.4; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.5, h-index 37.
How long does peer review take at Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 88 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 60 days (interquartile range 23–102 days); authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks. 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 Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 4,000 words. 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 Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine based?
Of the 78 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are South Korea (51), United States (19) and Canada (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists PMC and PubMed; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .