Annals of Emergency Medicine
Elsevier BV · US · ISSN 01960644
SJR Q1
What the numbers say
Publication volume is steady while citedness has softened.
Field-weighted citation impact moved from 0.69 to 0.56. Expect each article to attract fewer field‑normalized citations than before. The share of top-10% cited papers moved from 7.4% to 6.1%. Fewer articles land among the most cited in the field, so standout visibility is less likely. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education rose from 0.0% to 3.5% of what the journal runs. If your work uses AI in clinical or educational settings it may fit the journal's recent content mix. Recent titles increasingly carry department · presyncope · subsegmental · prehospital · pocus. Use of those specific clinical and prehospital terms may improve discoverability in the journal's recent corpus.
Citation metrics
SJR quartile
Q1
SJR score
0.99
Citations / doc (2y)
2.07
h-index
238
Based on the Scopus and OpenAlex citation graphs. We do not provide Clarivate’s JCR Impact Factor.
Output and citation impact
Whether citation performance keeps up as output grows.
PapersField-weighted impact
2018
941
0.69
2019
940
0.89
2020
896
0.67
2021
965
0.55
2022
836
0.44
2023
902
0.63
2024
838
0.56
2025
925
0.56
Topic shift
Share in the last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) versus the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
Rising
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education0.0%→3.5%+3.5%pPrevNow
- Anesthesia and Sedative Agents0.0%→3.3%+3.3%pPrevNow
- Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders0.0%→2.4%+2.4%pPrevNow
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes0.0%→2.3%+2.3%pPrevNow
- Diversity and Career in Medicine0.0%→2.1%+2.1%pPrevNow
Falling
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies9.4%→5.7%−3.7%pPrevNow
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts3.0%→0.0%−3.0%pPrevNow
- Airway Management and Intubation Techniques7.0%→4.5%−2.5%pPrevNow
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes2.2%→0.0%−2.2%pPrevNow
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances2.2%→0.0%−2.2%pPrevNow
Terms appearing more often
Wording in recent paper titles that stands out against the journal's own baseline.
departmentpresyncopesubsegmentalprehospitalpocus
Author countries
Last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) against the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
- US85.9%→86.3%+0.3%pPrevNow
- TW6.9%→3.5%−3.4%pPrevNow
- CA2.2%→3.1%+0.9%pPrevNow
- CN0.9%→2.6%+1.8%pPrevNow
- AU0.8%→1.7%+0.9%pPrevNow
- FR0.0%→1.1%+1.1%pPrevNow
Top 5 institutions
Top 5 institutions publishing in this journal, 2018 – 2026.
Recently published
20The 20 most recent papers — not the full list.
1
Article2026
Woman With Blunt Abdominal TraumaWei‐Jing Lee, Chi-Hsuan She, Yen-Wei Chiu
SurgeryMedicine
2
Article2026
Is Early Vasopressor Administration Really Not Important in Septic Shock?Christopher Lai, Daniel De Backer, Gustavo A. Ospina‐Tascón, Xavier Monnet
EpidemiologyMedicine
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Article2026
Boarding as Failed Flow: Patient Safety Cannot Adapt to StagnationAlberto Zoli, Mattia Madeo, Francesca Pignataro, Zaninni Caroleo, Eugenio Garofalo, Andrea Bruni
Emergency MedicineMedicine
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Article2026
In reply:Lauren Page Black, Michael A. Puskarich, Rosemarie Fernandez, Faheem W. Guirgis
Statistics, Probability and UncertaintyDecision Sciences
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Article2026
Man With Left Lower Limb PainCaoimhe Provost, Naomi Eisenberg, Graham Roche‐Nagle
Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineMedicine
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9
Article2026
Launching the Annals of Emergency Medicine Peer Review AcademyAndrea L. Klein, Stephen Schenkel, Richelle J. Cooper*, Tyler W. Barrett, David L. Schriger, DM Yealy
OAInformation Systems and ManagementDecision Sciences
10
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Article2026
Policy Statements Approved March 2026Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
12
Article2026
A Woman With Abdominal PainLinnea Nierenberg, Kenton L. Anderson, Timothy J. Batchelor
SurgeryMedicine
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Article2026
Masthead16
Article2026
Vasopressor Timing and Mortality Impact in Septic ShockMatthew Carvey, Allyson M. Hynes
OAEpidemiologyMedicine
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Article2026
Response to Letter to the Editor for “Boarding and Overcrowding are Facts of Life. It’s Time We Adapt Resident Education to Them”Stanford Schor, Jessica Baéz, Jeffrey Hill
Emergency MedicineMedicine
19
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Most cited
20Top 20 most cited, 2018 – 2026.
1
ArticleCitations 3042020
Development and Validation of the Quick COVID-19 Severity Index: A Prognostic Tool for Early Clinical DecompensationAdrian D. Haimovich, Neal G. Ravindra, Stoytcho Stoytchev, H. P. Young, F. Perry Wilson, David van Dijk, Wade L. Schulz, Richard A. Taylor*
OAEpidemiologyMedicine
2
ReviewCitations 2812018
Triage Performance in Emergency Medicine: A Systematic ReviewJeremiah S. Hinson*, Diego A. Martínez, Stephanie Cabral, Kevin George, Madeleine Whalen, Bhakti Hansoti, Scott Levin
Emergency MedicineMedicine
3
ArticleCitations 2502019
One-Year Mortality of Patients After Emergency Department Treatment for Nonfatal Opioid OverdoseScott G. Weiner*, Olesya Baker, Dana Bernson, Jeremiah D. Schuur
OAPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine
4
ArticleCitations 1982019
Development and Evaluation of a Machine Learning Model for the Early Identification of Patients at Risk for SepsisRyan Delahanty, J.R. Ávila Álvarez, Lisa Flynn, Robert Sherwin, Spencer S. Jones*
EpidemiologyMedicine
5
ArticleCitations 1672020
Trends in Sickle Cell Disease–Related Mortality in the United States, 1979 to 2017Amanda B. Payne*, Jason M. Mehal, Christina Chapman, Dana L. Haberling, Lisa C. Richardson, Christopher J. Bean, W. Craig Hooper
OAGeneticsMedicine
6
ArticleCitations 1662020
Validation of the Clinical Frailty Scale for Prediction of Thirty-Day Mortality in the Emergency DepartmentTobias Kaeppeli, Marco Rueegg, Thomas Dreher‐Hummel, Mikkel Brabrand, Søren Kabell Nissen, Christopher R. Carpenter, Roland Bingisser, Christian H. Nickel*
Geriatrics and GerontologyMedicine
7
ReviewCitations 1592019
Patient Discharge Instructions in the Emergency Department and Their Effects on Comprehension and Recall of Discharge Instructions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysisAmber E. Hoek*, Susanne C.P. Anker, Ed F. van Beeck, Alex Burdorf, Pleunie P. M. Rood, Juanita A. Haagsma
OAEmergency MedicineMedicine
8
ArticleCitations 1542020
An Analysis of Changes in Emergency Department Visits After a State Declaration During the Time of COVID-19Bjorn Westgard*, Matthew Morgan, Gabriela Vazquez‐Benitez, Lauren O. Erickson, Michael D. Zwank
OAOncologyMedicine
9
ReviewCitations 1482018
Liberal Versus Restrictive Intravenous Fluid Therapy for Early Septic Shock: Rationale for a Randomized TrialWesley H. Self, Matthew W. Semler, Rinaldo Bellomo, Samuel M. Brown, Bennett P. deBoisblanc, Matthew C. Exline, Adit A. Ginde, Colin K. Grissom, David R. Janz, Alan E. Jones, Kathleen D. Liu, Stephen Macdonald, Chadwick D. Miller, Pauline K. Park, Lora A. Reineck, Todd W. Rice, Jay S. Steingrub, Daniel Talmor, Donald M. Yealy, Ivor S. Douglas, Nathan I. Shapiro
OAEpidemiologyMedicine
10
ArticleCitations 1472019
Goals-of-Care Conversations for Older Adults With Serious Illness in the Emergency Department: Challenges and OpportunitiesKei Ouchi*, Naomi George, Jeremiah D. Schuur, Emily L. Aaronson, Charlotta Lindvall, Edward Bernstein, Rebecca L. Sudore, Mara A. Schonberg, Susan D. Block, James A. Tulsky
OAPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine
11
ArticleCitations 1432018
Does Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Improve Clinical Outcomes in Emergency Department Patients With Undifferentiated Hypotension? An International Randomized Controlled Trial From the SHoC-ED InvestigatorsPaul Atkinson*, J. Milne, Laura Diegelmann, Hein Lamprecht, Melanie Stander, D. Lussier, Chau Pham, Ryan Henneberry, Jacqueline Fraser, Michael K. Howlett, J. Mekwan, B. Ramrattan, Joanna Middleton, Daniël J. van Hoving, M. Peach, Luke Taylor, Tara Dahn, Sean Hurley, Kayla MacSween, Luke Richardson, George Stoica, Samuel F. Hunter, Paul Olszynski, David Lewis
SurgeryMedicine
12
ArticleCitations 1392018
High-Velocity Nasal Insufflation in the Treatment of Respiratory Failure: A Randomized Clinical TrialPratik Doshi*, Jessica S. Whittle, Michael Bublewicz, Joseph Kearney, Terrell Ashe, Russell Graham, Suesann Salazar, Terry W. Ellis, Dianna Maynard, Rose Dennis, April Tillotson, Mandy J. Hill, Misha Granado, Nancy Gordon, Charles L. Dunlap, Sheldon Spivey, Thomas L. Miller
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMedicine
13
ReviewCitations 1382019
Risk Factors for Misuse of Prescribed Opioids: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisAmber Cragg, Jeffrey P. Hau, Stephanie A. Woo, Sophie A. Kitchen, Christine Liu, Mary M. Doyle‐Waters, Corinne M. Hohl*
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine
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ArticleCitations 1372020
Does the Clinical Frailty Scale at Triage Predict Outcomes From Emergency Care for Older People?Amy Elliott, Nick Taub, Jay Banerjee, Faisal Aijaz, W Schuyler Jones, Lucy Teece, James David van Oppen, Simon Conroy*
Geriatrics and GerontologyMedicine
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ArticleCitations 1352021
Emergency Department Visits for Nonfatal Opioid Overdose During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across Six US Health Care SystemsWilliam E. Soares*, Edward R. Melnick, Bidisha Nath, Gail D’Onofrio, Hyung Paek, Rachel M. Skains, Lauren A. Walter, Martin F. Casey, Anthony M. Napoli, Jason Hoppe, Molly M. Jeffery
OAPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine
16
ReviewCitations 1302018
Ultrasonography for the Confirmation of Endotracheal Tube Intubation: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisMichael Gottlieb, Dallas Holladay, Gary D. Peksa
Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineMedicine
17
ArticleCitations 1282022
Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines, 2021Joshua D. Niforatos, Richard E. Rothman
MicrobiologyImmunology and Microbiology
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ArticleCitations 1272019
High Prevalence of Burnout Among US Emergency Medicine Residents: Results From the 2017 National Emergency Medicine Wellness SurveyMichelle Lin*, Nicole Battaglioli, Matthew Melamed, Sarah Mott, Arlene Chung, Daniel Robinson
OAGeneral Health ProfessionsHealth Professions
19
editorialCitations 1212023
Ultrasound Guidelines: Emergency, Point-of-Care, and Clinical Ultrasound Guidelines in MedicineCritical Care and Intensive Care MedicineMedicine
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ReviewCitations 1202018
Identification, Management, and Transition of Care for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency DepartmentHerbert C. Duber*, Isabel A. Barata, Eric Cioè‐Peña, Stephen Y. Liang, Eric Ketcham, Wendy Macias‐Konstantopoulos, Shawn A. Ryan, Mark Stavros, Lauren Whiteside
OAPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine
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