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. 2016 Aug 8;17(5):497–507. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2016.7.30328

Table 2.

Indexing services where legitimate open access journals may be found, and the number of journals indexed with the word “emergency”, “emergencies” or “emerg*” in the title, with denominators representing total number of journal titles, including subscription journals. Numerator = OA.

Index name Website link Number of OA journals with “emergency” “emergencies” or “emerg*” in title
The NLM Catalog http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals 17/127
PMC Journal List http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/ 14/17
EBSCOhost Title Lists https://www.ebscohost.com/title-lists This list includes titles from CINAHL and Academic search complete 10/63
SJR http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php This list includes Scopus and EMBASE titles. 12/72
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) https://doaj.org/search 19/46
Thompson Reuters Web of Science Master Journal Lists http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ 11/33
Google search https://www.google.com/ 55/150

NLM, National Library of Medicine; PMC, PubMed Central; EBSCOhost, Elton B. Stephens Company; SJR, Scimago Journal Rank; DOAJ, Director of Open Access Journals; EMBASE, Excerpta Medica Database

Scopus has no abbreviation.