Journal profile
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal
ISSN 2383-4897 · eISSN 2508-5506 · Korean Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine · Korea, Republic of
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal: fully open access; APC about USD 200; median 41 days to acceptance (54 articles, last 24 months); 29 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal is published by Korean Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies and Poisoning and overdose treatments, together about 34.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Emergency Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
PEMJ aims at worldwide pediatricians, emergency physicians, and other health care providers or researchers who care for ill or injured infants, children or adolescents, or are interested in pediatric emergency medicine. Readers of the journal can obtain academic or updated information for relevant practice or research. In addition, the readership can be expanded to clinicians, researchers or policymakers who would like to access recent information or trends on pediatric emergency medicine. There are no specific contribution requirements, but the content should be in accord with the scope of the journal. The journal scope embraces both basic and clinical research of pediatric emergency medicine. In detail, we publish articles regarding abuse-and-assault, adolescents, allergy-immunology-and-rheumatology, behavioral-and-psychiatric, cardiovascular, critical care-and-resuscitation, dentistry, dermatology, editing-writing-and-publishing, endocrinology-and-metabolism, environmental injury, epidemiology, ethics, foreign body, gastroenterology-hepatology-and-nutrition, genetics, gynecology, hemato-oncology, head injury, imaging, infection, laboratory medicine, informatics, musculoskeletal-and-orthopedics, neonatology, nephrology-and-urology, neurology-and-neurosurgery, nursing, otolaryngology-and-ophthalmology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, procedure, rehabilitation-and-sports medicine, respiratory, sedation-and-analgesia, surgery, toxicology, trauma, and miscellaneous. We may publish articles on studies performed outside emergency departments if the articles state a pediatric emergency medicine perspective. PEMJ publishes original articles, reviews, editorials, case reports, brief communications, correspondences, and special contributions.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Ji Whan HanPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named South Korea 19, United States 2 (21 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Emergency and Acute Care StudiesMedicine14.3%
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine11.8%
- Poisoning and overdose treatmentsMedicine8.3%
- Injury Epidemiology and PreventionMedicine7.3%
- Foreign Body Medical CasesMedicine7.3%
- Emergency Medicine Education and ResearchMedicine5.5%
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatmentsMedicine4.3%
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine4%
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.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
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
- h-index
- 7OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.21OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 276 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20 | 20 | 39 |
| 2025 | 29 | 29 | 59 |
| 2024 | 28 | 28 | 61 |
| 2023 | 34 | 34 | 47 |
| 2022 | 28 | 28 | 32 |
| 2021 | 20 | 20 | 37 |
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
41 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 26 days – 69 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 64 days (48 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 111 days
- Sample
- 54 articles with submission and acceptance dates (60 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 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 20 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 19 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication
- 70 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 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 200 / KRW 200,000 | No | CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 200 / KRW 200,000 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 200 / KRW 200,000 | No | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 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)
Article types accepted7
- brief communicationsPEMJ publishes original articles, reviews, editorials, case reports, brief communications, correspondences, and special contributions.Length not stated
- case reportsPEMJ publishes original articles, reviews, editorials, case reports, brief communications, correspondences, and special contributions.Length not stated
- correspondencesPEMJ publishes original articles, reviews, editorials, case reports, brief communications, correspondences, and special contributions.Length not stated
- editorialsPEMJ publishes original articles, reviews, editorials, case reports, brief communications, correspondences, and special contributions.Length not stated
- original articlesPEMJ publishes original articles, reviews, editorials, case reports, brief communications, correspondences, and special contributions.Length not stated
- reviewsPEMJ publishes original articles, reviews, editorials, case reports, brief communications, correspondences, and special contributions.Length not stated
- special contributionsPEMJ publishes original articles, reviews, editorials, case reports, brief communications, correspondences, and special contributions.Length not stated
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 Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Country or region
- Korea, Republic of
- Language
- English, Korean
- ISSN
- 2383-4897
- Electronic ISSN
- 2508-5506
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13 (July 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal
How long does peer review take at Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal?
Based on the dates recorded on 54 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 41 days (interquartile range 26–69 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal based?
Of the 21 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are South Korea (19) and United States (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal open access, and what is the APC?
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 200.
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: .