Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Emergency Medicine journal rankings 2017
38 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Emergency Medicine has 38 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2016 to 0.60, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Clinical Toxicology, Resuscitation, and Academic Emergency Medicine.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Medicine (42)
- Surgery852
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine324
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health270
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine266
- Oncology213
- Infectious Diseases198
- Epidemiology185
- Neurology157
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism156
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging144
- Physiology143
- Psychiatry and Mental health142
- Emergency Medicine38
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine107
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health97
- Ophthalmology87
- Dermatology83
- Hematology74
- Obstetrics and Gynecology68
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology58
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Complementary and alternative medicine47
- Pharmacology46
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology32
- Rehabilitation29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine25
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Hepatology23
- Genetics21
- Immunology and Allergy20
- Urology13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
38 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Clinical ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.17Q1 | 4.09 0.61 down from 2016 | 405 | 17% | — | ||
2ResuscitationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 4.47 0.56 up from 2016 | 1,281 | 26% | $4,490 | ||
3Academic Emergency MedicineWiley · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.67 0.25 down from 2016 | 683 | 49% | $3,900 | ||
4Prehospital Emergency CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 2.34 0.52 down from 2016 | 265 | 29% | — | ||
5Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 2.77 0.69 up from 2016 | 374 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
6Journal of Medical ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.34Q1 | 2.36 0.22 up from 2016 | 204 | 100% | $4,990 | ||
7Emergency Medicine Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.24Q1 | 2.26 0.04 up from 2016 | 159 | 4% | $2,750 | ||
8Australasian Emergency Nursing JournalElsevier BV · Australia | 1.13Q1 | 1.96 0.20 up from 2016 | 84 | 42% | — | ||
9BMC Emergency MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 1.57 0.06 up from 2016 | 153 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
10International Journal of Emergency MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 1.73 0.31 up from 2016 | 126 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
11Journal of Forensic and Legal MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 1.50 0.02 down from 2016 | 468 | 12% | $3,870 | ||
12Emergency Medicine JournalBMJ · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.67 0.04 down from 2016 | 502 | 24% | — | ||
13International Emergency NursingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.33 0.11 up from 2016 | 173 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
14Journal of Emergency MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.84Q2 | 1.37 0.06 down from 2016 | 1,177 | 8% | $3,390 | ||
15European Journal of Emergency MedicineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.86 0.32 down from 2016 | 258 | 8% | — | ||
16Open Access Emergency MedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.70Q2 | 1.25 0.82 up from 2016 | 37 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
17Emergency Medicine AustralasiaWiley · Australia | 0.68Q2 | 1.19 0.04 down from 2016 | 441 | 17% | $3,750 | ||
18The American Journal of Emergency MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.66Q2 | 1.27 0.05 down from 2016 | 2,298 | 8% | $3,980 | ||
19Pediatric Emergency CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.61Q2 | 0.97 0.19 down from 2016 | 869 | 10% | — | ||
20Journal of Trauma NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.58Q3 | 0.77 0.24 down from 2016 | 141 | 9% | — | ||
21Clinical and Experimental Emergency MedicineOAThe Korean Society of Emergency Medicine · South Korea | 0.57Q3 | 0.91 0.38 up from 2016 | 113 | 100% | — | ||
22Canadian Journal of Emergency MedicineSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 1.22 0.09 up from 2016 | 364 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
23BMJ Quality Improvement ReportsBMJ · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.84 0.31 up from 2016 | 375 | 100% | — | ||
24EmergenciasOASpanish Society of Emergency Medicine · Spain | 0.44Q3 | 0.93 0.09 up from 2016 | 317 | 100% | — | ||
25Critical Care Nursing QuarterlyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.71 0.07 up from 2016 | 110 | 2% | — | ||
26African Journal of Emergency MedicineOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.39Q3 | 0.68 0.11 down from 2016 | 113 | 100% | $2,140 | ||
27Journal of Emergency NursingElsevier BV · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.60no change | 358 | 15% | $2,500 | ||
28Air Medical JournalElsevier BV · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.88 0.25 up from 2016 | 159 | 16% | $2,700 | ||
29Notfall + RettungsmedizinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.34Q3 | 0.84 0.24 up from 2016 | 299 | 18% | $3,390 | ||
30Medizinische Klinik - Intensivmedizin und NotfallmedizinSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.30Q4 | 0.79 0.24 up from 2016 | 326 | 21% | $3,390 | ||
31Clinical Pediatric Emergency MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.31 0.08 down from 2016 | 119 | 4% | $2,760 | ||
32Acute Medicine JournalUnited Kingdom | 0.21Q4 | 0.40 0.22 up from 2016 | 126 | 7% | — | ||
33Current Emergency and Hospital Medicine ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.39 0.05 up from 2016 | 87 | 0% | $4,090 | ||
34Open Journal of Emergency MedicineOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.33 0.19 down from 2016 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
35Emergency Medicine Open AccessOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.23 0.06 down from 2016 | 188 | 71% | — | ||
36International Journal of Anesthesiology & ResearchOAUnited States | 0.11Q4 | 0.18 0.12 up from 2016 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
37Hong Kong Journal of Emergency MedicineOASAGE Publishing · China | 0.08Q4 | 0.17 0.04 down from 2016 | 176 | 72% | $1,800 | ||
38Emergency Care JournalOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.07Q4 | 0.05 0.10 down from 2016 | 64 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Emergency Medicine highlighted.
- Surgery852
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine324
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health270
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine266
- Oncology213
- Infectious Diseases198
- Epidemiology185
- Neurology157
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism156
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging144
- Physiology143
- Psychiatry and Mental health142
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine107
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health97
- Ophthalmology87
- Dermatology83
- Hematology74
- Obstetrics and Gynecology68
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology58
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Complementary and alternative medicine47
- Pharmacology46
- Emergency Medicine38
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology32
- Rehabilitation29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine25
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Hepatology23
- Genetics21
- Immunology and Allergy20
- Urology13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
11 additional Emergency Medicine journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 38
- Window papers (baseline)
- 27,530 +22.5% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.596 -14.0% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 21 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 32 | 34 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 42 | 44 | 44 | 45 | 43 | 44 | 42 | 44 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,322 | 8,478 | 9,027 | 9,635 | 9,681 | 10,499 | 11,494 | 12,741 | 13,984 | 15,621 | 16,784 | 18,368 | 19,379 | 20,830 | 22,466 | 24,227 | 25,972 | 27,530 | 29,130 | 30,153 | 31,176 | 32,685 | 34,789 | 35,384 | 35,378 | 35,284 | |
| Median OJR | 0.383 | 0.28 | 0.36 | 0.39 | 0.377 | 0.577 | 0.57 | 0.55 | 0.579 | 0.580 | 0.68 | 0.636 | 0.644 | 0.651 | 0.69 | 0.663 | 0.657 | 0.596 | 0.617 | 0.655 | 0.661 | 0.653 | 0.619 | 0.600 | 0.648 | 0.622 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.