Journal profile · Medicine-Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open
ISSN 2397-5776 · BMJ Publishing Group · United Kingdom
Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.5 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 180 days to acceptance (102 articles, last 24 months); 233 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open is published by BMJ Publishing Group and is in Zone 3 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, Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation and Abdominal Trauma and Injuries, together about 42.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Time to first decision with review (median):42 days*Time from acceptance to publication (median):22 days*Impact Factor:2.5Citescore:2.8Total content views:278,620Total Altmetric mentions:201More journal metricsHow we get these metrics*median number of days Aims & scope Editorial board Ownership Journal information Journal Statistics 2025 Advertising Related publications Affiliations
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Editor-in-chief Elliott R. HautPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 3%); most named United States 35, Mainland China 1, Australia 1, Netherlands 1, Brazil 1 (40 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine23%
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, ResuscitationMedicine10.9%
- Abdominal Trauma and InjuriesMedicine9%
- Trauma Management and DiagnosisMedicine8.4%
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine3.9%
- Injury Epidemiology and PreventionMedicine3.9%
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine3.4%
- Cardiac Arrest and ResuscitationMedicine3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Critical Care 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 | Critical Care Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Surgery | 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
ScopusDOAJLetPub
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 (publisher)
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.64LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.02LetPub ·
- h-index
- 44OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 372OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.64OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,336 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 174 | 174 | 51 |
| 2025 | 233 | 233 | 532 |
| 2024 | 240 | 240 | 1,128 |
| 2023 | 106 | 106 | 613 |
| 2022 | 79 | 79 | 731 |
| 2021 | 133 | 133 | 1,821 |
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
180 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 47 days – 255 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 30 days (102 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 200 days
- Sample
- 102 articles with submission and acceptance dates (436 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 ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 22 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 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 | GBP 2,390 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,100 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,652 | 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)
Article types accepted2
- researchResearchLength not stated
- reviewReviewLength 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
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2397-5776
- 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 Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open
What CAS zone is Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Surgery / Critical Care 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 Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.5; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.8, h-index 44.
How long does peer review take at Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open?
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 180 days (interquartile range 47–255 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 Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open based?
Of the 40 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 3%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (35), Mainland China (1) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open open access, and what is the APC?
Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
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: .