Journal profile · Medicine-Emergency Medicine
Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal
ISSN 2451-4691 · eISSN 2543-5957 · Via Medica
Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal: fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; 28 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal is published by Via Medica. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies and Disaster Response and Management, together about 34.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Emergency Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal (DEMJ) is the official journal of Polish Society of Disaster Medicine. It is an international, scientific, peer review journal covering a brand spectrum of disaster health and emergency medical information. The Journal publishes only high-quality research and review articles, letters to the editor, images in disaster and emergency medicine, comprising both clinical and translationally investigators in the field of disaster and emergency medicine. Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal is particularly focused on innovation and technology applied to disaster and emergency medicine. Original Research on this topic will receive absolute priority, provided that the quality of the manuscript meets the high standards of the journal and can compete fairly with the submissions in other areas. The ultimate mission of the journal is building bridges between technology and clinical research that can be beneficial for patients in critical condition.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Emergency Medicine
Editor-in-chief Łukasz SzarpakPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiac Arrest and ResuscitationMedicine12.9%
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine10.7%
- Disaster Response and ManagementHealth Professions10.5%
- Respiratory Support and MechanismsMedicine6.8%
- Airway Management and Intubation TechniquesMedicine6.3%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine6.1%
- Emergency and Acute Care StudiesMedicine5.9%
- Simulation-Based Education in HealthcareMedicine3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medical Services | Q2 | 8/17 | 55th |
| Emergency Medicine | Q2 | 56/111 | 50th |
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | Q3 | 69/122 | 43rd |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Google Scholar, EBSCO, CNKI, Crossref, Arianta, China National Knowledge Index (CNKI), Index Copernicus, Polish Minsitry of Science and Higher Education, Polish Scientific Bibliography, Polindex, ROAD, SJR, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Polish Medical Library (GBL), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)Publisher 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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.2LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.24LetPub ·
- h-index
- 12OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 19OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.63OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 353 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 12 | 63 |
| 2025 | 28 | 28 | 102 |
| 2024 | 41 | 41 | 167 |
| 2023 | 38 | 38 | 191 |
| 2022 | 40 | 40 | 117 |
| 2021 | 34 | 34 | 114 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | EUR 100 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- EUR 300
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 websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access
- Authorship
Papers published in print and online; official publication date is online posting date. Model summary
All papers are published in print and online. The official publication date of these papers is the date that they are posted online.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest
Authors must disclose conflicts of interest. Model summary
To meet the responsibility to the public to provide clear and unbiased scientific information, all authors must disclose any association that poses a conflict of interest in connection with the manuscript.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
IRB/ethical committee approval required for human and animal research. Model summary
All research involving human and animal participants and clinical trials must have the authors institutional review board/local ethical committee approval.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Completion of the online submission form electronically is tantamount to automatically and free-of-charge transferring of the copyright for publishing and distribution of the submitted material (in all known now and developed in the future forms and fields of exploitation) to the Publisher, under condition that those materials are accepted for publication. The authors agree not to publish any data…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Full open access; no manuscript processing fee. Model summary
The Journal is available in full open access and there is no manuscript processing fee at DEMJ.
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
- Via Medica
- ISSN
- 2451-4691
- Electronic ISSN
- 2543-5957
- Society / sponsor
- Polish Society of Disaster Medicine
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 11 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal
Which databases index Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal is indexed in Scopus.
Is Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal open access, and what is the APC?
Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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: .