Journal profile · EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Open Access Emergency Medicine
ISSN 1179-1500 · Dove Medical Press · United Kingdom
Open Access Emergency Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.1 (journal website); JCR Q2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 3,565; median 133 days to acceptance (85 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 27% (journal website); 36 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Open Access Emergency Medicine is published by Dove Medical Press 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, Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation and Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, together about 36.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Emergency Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Editor-in-Chief: Prof Dr Amado Baez Open Access Emergency Medicine is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, online journal. Publishing original research, reports, editorials, reviews and commentaries on all aspects of emergency medicine. Open Access Emergency Medicine will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication. Updated 4 August 2025
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Editor-in-chief Amado BaezPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 6, India 2, Germany 2, Italy 2, Denmark 2 (16 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine14.5%
- Cardiac Arrest and ResuscitationMedicine11.7%
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine10.4%
- Emergency and Acute Care StudiesMedicine8.6%
- Simulation-Based Education in HealthcareMedicine6.3%
- Disaster Response and ManagementHealth Professions4.2%
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, ResuscitationMedicine3.6%
- Ultrasound in Clinical ApplicationsMedicine3.3%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SJR, CiteScore, Impact FactorPublisher 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) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.01Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.55LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.01LetPub ·
- h-index
- 37OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 183OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.83OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.14%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 118,309Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 515 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36 | 36 | 5 |
| 2025 | 36 | 36 | 47 |
| 2024 | 36 | 36 | 146 |
| 2023 | 50 | 50 | 310 |
| 2022 | 68 | 68 | 611 |
| 2021 | 71 | 71 | 1,000 |
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
133 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 88 days – 177 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (85 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 151 days
- Sample
- 85 articles with submission and acceptance dates (85 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 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 27%Publisher website ·
- Desk decision
- 46 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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 3,565 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,320 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,990 | Yes | — |
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
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
Article types accepted2
- case reportAuthors may use these detailed descriptions of different paper types accepted by Dove Medical Press (case reports, reviews, etc) to decide how to label their pa…Length not stated
- reviewAuthors may use these detailed descriptions of different paper types accepted by Dove Medical Press (case reports, reviews, etc) to decide how to label their pa…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, Open access
- Publication ethics
Member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Model summary
This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Emergency Medicine
ISSN: 1179-1500 About Journal Journal Metrics Editors Publishing Fees Peer Reviewers Articles Aims and ScopeCall For Papers About JournalJournal MetricsEditorsPeer ReviewersArticles Article Publishing ChargesAims and ScopeCall For Papers Aims and Scope Editor-in-Chief: Prof Dr Amado Baez Open Access Emergency Medicine is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, online journal. Publishing orig…
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
- Dove Medical Press
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1179-1500
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Open Access Emergency Medicine
What CAS zone is Open Access Emergency Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Open Access 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 Open Access Emergency Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.2, h-index 37.
How long does peer review take at Open Access Emergency Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 85 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 133 days (interquartile range 88–177 days); authors report an average review time of about 16 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 27%. 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 JCR quartile is Open Access Emergency Medicine in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Medicine.
What are the manuscript requirements of Open Access Emergency Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Graphical abstract: Optional. 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 Open Access Emergency Medicine based?
Of the 16 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (6), India (2) and Germany (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Open Access Emergency Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Open Access Emergency Medicine is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Open Access Emergency Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Open Access Emergency Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,565.
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: .