Table 4.
Open access emergency medicine journals that have achieved indexing in recognized services and are therefore legitimate rather than predatory. NLM (National Library of Medicine) Catalog, SJR (Scimago Journal Rank), DOAJ (Director of Open Access Journals), EBSCOhost journal master list, and WS (Thomson Reuters Web of Science, including “expanded” and “emerging sources”).
| Journal title and weblink | NLM catalog | PubMed central | SJR | DOAJ | EBSCOhost | WS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Advances in Emergency Medicine from Hindawi http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aem/contents/ | x | |||||
| 2. | African Journal of Emergency Medicinea http://www.afjem.org/ | x | x | x | x | ||
| 3. | Australian Journal of Emergency Managementb https://ajem.infoservices.com.au/items/AJEM-31-02 | x | x | ||||
| 4. | BMC Emergency Medicine https://bmcemergmed.biomedcentral.com/ | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 5. | Bulletin of Emergency & Trauma http://www.beat-journal.com/BEATJournal/index.php/BEAT | x | x | x | |||
| 6. | Case Reports in Emergency Medicine from Hindawi Publishing Corporationc http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ | x | x | x | x | ||
| 7. | Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicined http://www.ceemjournal.org/ | x | x | ||||
| 8. | EAJEM: Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine http://www.akademikaciltip.com/eng/Anasayfa | x | x | x | |||
| 19. | Emergency: An Academic Emergency Medicine Journal http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/emergency | x | x | x | |||
| 10. | Emergency Care Journal http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/ecj | x | x | ||||
| 11. | Emergency Medicine International from Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com/journals/emi/ | x | x | x | x | x | |
| 12. | Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine http://www.hkjem.com/ | x | x | ||||
| 13. | International Journal of Emergency Medicine from Springer Open https://intjem.springeropen.com/ | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 14. | Iranian Journal of Emergency Medicine http://www.journals.sbmu.ac.ir/en-iranjem | x | |||||
| 15. | ISRN Emergency Medicine http://www.hindawi.com/jour-nals/isrn/contents/emergency.medicine/ | x | x | ||||
| 16. | Journal of Cardiovascular Emergencies http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jce | x | |||||
| 17. | Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock http://www.onlinejets.org/ | x | x | x | x | x | |
| 18. | Journal of Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Acute Care from Qscience.com http://www.qscience.com/loi/jemtac | x | x | ||||
| 19. | Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma http://jept.ir/ | x | |||||
| 20. | Journal of Trauma Management and Outcomee https://traumamanagement.biomedcentral.com/ | x | x | x | x | x | |
| 21. | Open Access Emergency Medicine from Dovepressf https://www.dovepress.com/open-access-emergency-medicine-journal | x | x | x | x | x | |
| 22. | Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicineg http://sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/ | x | x | x | x | x | |
| 23. | Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine http://www.trjemergmed.com/ | x | x | x | |||
| 24. | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 25. | World Journal of Emergency Medicineh http://www.wjem.org/ | x | x | x | x | ||
| 26. | World Journal of Emergency Surgeryi http://wjes.biomedcentral.com/ | x | x | x | x | x | x |
Journal numbers highlighted in yellow are changed from the original published version.
African Journal of Emergency Medicine was recently added to NLM Catalog and only selected citations will soon be in PubMed. The full-text content currently is not in PMC.
Australian Journal of Emergency Management was incorrectly placed in the potential predatory journal list. The journal is found and/or indexed in SJR and WS.
Case Reports in Emergency Medicine from Hindawi Publishing Corporation is also found in the EBSCOhost journal master list.
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine has recently been added to the NLM Catalog. The full-text content is now archived in PMC and the citations are now searchable in PubMed.
Journal of Trauma Management and Outcomes is found and or indexed in all the selected databases except WS.
Open Access Emergency Medicine from Dovepress was incorrectly marked in EBSCOhost.
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine is indexed in WS, but the search for Thomson Reuters indexed journals needs to include “&” symbol rather than “and” in the title, in order to find the journal’s title.
Both the World Journal of Emergency Medicine and the World Journal of Emergency Surgery are found and/or indexed in the EBSCOhost and WS.