1. Overview
The Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open (JACEP Open) is beginning its sixth year of publication. Beginning in January 2025, Elsevier has assumed duties as the publisher of JACEP Open. This change will enable new synergies between JACEP Open and Annals of Emergency Medicine.
2. Status of the Journal
JACEP Open began accepting and publishing manuscripts in the latter half of 2019. Important milestones include listing in PubMed Central, indexing in PubMed, acceptance to Clarivate Web of Science for coverage in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, indexing with Directory of Open Access Journals, PubMed, Europe PubMed, Google Scholar, Embase (Elsevier, Inc), SCOPUS, and SHERPA/RoMEO. The journal’s impact factor for 2024 was 1.7. In 2023, the journal launched a special collection in Critical Care, and in 2024, the journal added special collections in Informatics and Observation Medicine.
3. Editorial and Production Performance
The journal received almost 750 manuscripts in 2024 (Table 1), a 20% increase over 2023. Original research, brief reports, reviews, and clinical concepts pieces comprised approximately 45% of all submissions. Case reports and Images and Videos in Emergency Medicine comprised the remaining 55% of submissions. Approximately 33% of submissions were from international authors from 49 countries outside the United States, and 428 (57%) manuscripts were transferred from JACEP Open’s companion journal, Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Table 1.
Categories of manuscripts submitted to JACEP Open.
| Article type | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Collection | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Brief Commentary | 2 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Brief Report | 3 | 68 | 47 | 45 | 42 | 63 |
| Case Report | 19 | 134 | 135 | 102 | 107 | 174 |
| Clinical Concepts | 7 | 69 | 33 | 15 | 20 | 11 |
| Editorial | 0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Images in Emergency Medicine | 19 | 146 | 181 | 124 | 152 | 182 |
| Letter to the Editor | 0 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| Original Research | 36 | 226 | 211 | 153 | 233 | 239 |
| Review Article | 9 | 49 | 20 | 17 | 20 | 18 |
| Special Contribution | 2 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 15 |
| Systematic Review–Meta-analysis | 2 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 13 |
| Videos in Emergency Medicine | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 10 |
| Total | 99 | 750 | 683 | 503 | 625 | 741 |
Final decisions on most manuscripts occurred within 38 days of submission (Table 2). The journal’s acceptance rate was 35% for original research, brief reports, systematic reviews, reviews, and clinical concepts papers (Table 3), and these 123 manuscripts spanned a range of topic areas (Table 4). Accepted manuscripts included authors from 17 different countries.
Table 2.
JACEP Open editorial and production time performance for calendar year 2024.
| Metric | Original research, brief reports, reviews, and concepts | Case reports | Images/videos |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manuscript submission to first decision (accept, revise, or reject)—median (minimum, maximum) in days | 33 (1, 104) | 7 (0, 83) | 11 (1, 50) |
| Manuscript submission to final decision (accept, revise, or reject), including author’s revision time—median (minimum, maximum) in days | 49 (1, 494) | 7 (0, 459) | 10 (1, 161) |
| Manuscript acceptance to proof receipt—median (minimum, maximum) in days | 31 (1, 51) | ||
| Manuscript acceptance to Online Publication—median (minimum, maximum) in days | 67 (3,132) | ||
Table 3.
JACEP Open acceptance rates for 2024.
| Article types | Acceptance rate |
|---|---|
| Scientific works—original research, brief reports, systematic reviews, reviews, and clinical concepts | 123 / 348 (35%) |
| Case reports | 20 / 176 (11%) |
| Images and Videos in Emergency Medicine | 103/ 199 (52%) |
Table 4.
Topic areas of original research, brief reports, systematic reviews, reviews, and clinical concepts papers accepted in 2024.
| Topic area | No. of works |
|---|---|
| Airway | 4 |
| Cardiology | 11 |
| Diversity, equity, and inclusion | 5 |
| Education | 5 |
| Emergency medical services | 16 |
| Evidence-based emergency medicine | 2 |
| General medicine | 11 |
| Geriatrics | 4 |
| Health policy | 3 |
| Infectious disease | 16 |
| Injury prevention | 2 |
| Neurology | 1 |
| Pain management | 1 |
| Pediatrics | 14 |
| Physician wellness | 2 |
| The practice of emergency medicine | 9 |
| Pulmonary | 2 |
| Toxicology | 8 |
| Trauma | 6 |
| Military | 1 |
| Total | 123 |
4. Manuscript Access and Citations
As an open-access journal, all JACEP Open content is fully accessible without a subscription fee. Total combined downloads from the Wiley website and PubMed Central were 960,151 in 2024. Table 5 summarizes the journal’s top cited articles that were published in 2024. The countries with the highest number of full text accesses were China, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The journal’s most highly cited articles of all time are listed in Table 6.
Table 5.
Top cited publications in 2024.
| Title | Authors | Publication date | DOI | Total citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frailty assessment tools in the emergency department: A geriatric emergency department guidelines 2.0 scoping review | Wolf, Lisa A.; Lo, Alexander X.; Serina, Peter; Chary, Anita; Sri-On, Jiraporn; Shankar, Kalpana; Sano, Ellen; Liu, Shan W. | FEB 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13084 | 5 |
| The hospital costs of high emergency department pediatric readiness | Remick, Katherine E.; Gausche-Hill, Marianne; Lin, Amber; Goldhaber-Fiebert, Jeremy D.; Lang, Benjamin; Foster, Ashley; Burns, Beech; Jenkins, Peter C.; Hewes, Hilary A.; Kuppermann, Nathan; Mcconnell, K. John; Marin, Jennifer; Weyant, Christopher; Ford, Rachel; Babcock, Sean R.; Newgard, Craig D. | JUN 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13179 | 4 |
| Naloxone distribution programs in the emergency department: A scoping review of the literature | Sindhwani, Mohan K.; Friedman, Adam; O'Donnell, Maureen; Stader, Donald; Weiner, Scott G. | JUN 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13180 | 4 |
| Frequency of cardiotoxicity following intramuscular administration of epinephrine in emergency department patients with anaphylaxis | Pauw, Emily K.; Stubblefield, William B.; Wrenn, Jesse O.; Brown, Sarah K.; Cosse, Millie S.; Curry, Zoe S.; Darcy, Terence P.; James, Tia'Asia E.; Koetter, Paige E.; Nicholson, Caitlin E.; Parisi, Frank N.; Shepherd, Laura G.; Soppet, Savannah L.; Stocker, Michael D.; Walston, Bernard M.; Self, Wesley H.; Han, Jin H.; Ward, Michael J. | FEB 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13095 | 3 |
| From concept to reality: A comprehensive exploration into the development and evolution of a virtual emergency department | Talevski, Jason; Semciw, Adam I.; Boyd, James H.; Jessup, Rebecca L.; Miller, Suzanne M.; Hutton, Jennie; Lawrence, Joanna; Sher, Loren | AUG 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13231 | 2 |
| Epidemiology and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Salt Lake City: Sex-based investigations | Awad, Emad; Hopkins, Christy; Palatinus, Helen; Hunt-Smith, Taryn Tenaya; Ryba, Christopher; Youngquist, Scott | JUN 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13189 | 2 |
| A rapid host-protein test for differentiating bacterial from viral infection: Apollo diagnostic accuracy study | Bachur, Richard G.; Kaplan, Sheldon L.; Arias, Cesar A.; Ballard, Natasha; Carroll, Karen C.; Cruz, Andrea T.; Gordon, Richard; Halabi, Salim; Harris, Jeffrey D.; Hulten, Kristina G.; Jacob, Theresa; Kellogg, Mark D.; Klein, Adi; Mishan, Pninit Shaked; Motov, Sergey M.; Peck-Palmer, Octavia M.; Ryan, Leticia M.; Shapira, Ma'anit; Suits, George S.; Wang, Henry E.; Weissman, Alexandra; Rothman, Richard E. | JUN 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13167 | 2 |
| Opioid-related xylazine toxicity manifesting as myonecrosis, rhabdomyolysis, multifocal ischemic cerebral infarcts, and cerebral edema | Nwodim, Ogechi; Karsalia, Ritesh; Heslin, Mark E.; Lieberman, Allyson E.; Wang, Sally Zehui; Kalanuria, Atul A.; Elser, Holly C.; Driessen, Bernd; Caruso, Christopher; Anesi, George L. | JUN 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13187 | 2 |
| Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Lessons learned from recent clinical trials | DeMasi, Stephanie; Donohue, Megan; Merck, Lisa; Mosier, Jarrod | APR 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13129 | 2 |
| Implementation of a prehospital whole blood program: Lessons learned | Levy, Matthew J.; Garfinkel, Eric M.; May, Robert; Cohn, Eric; Tillett, Zachary; Wend, Christopher; Sikorksi, Robert A.; Troncoso, Ruben; Jenkins, J. Lee; Chizmar, Timothy P.; Margolis, Asa M. | APR 2024 | 10.1002/emp2.13142 | 2 |
Table 6.
Most highly cited articles of all time published in JACEP Open.
| Title | Authors | Publication year | DOI | Total citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory support for adult patients with COVID-19 | Whittle, Jessica S.; Pavlov, Ivan; Sacchetti, Alfred D.; Atwood, Charles; Rosenberg, Mark S. | 2020 | 10.1002/emp2.12071 | 73 |
| Deep-learning artificial intelligence analysis of clinical variables predicts mortality in COVID-19 patients | Zhu, Jocelyn S.; Ge, Peilin; Jiang, Chunguo; Zhang, Yong; Li, Xiaoran; Zhao, Zirun; Zhang, Liming; Duong, Tim Q. | 2020 | 10.1002/emp2.12205 | 61 |
| Improving the management of acutely agitated patients in the emergency department through implementation of Project BETA (Best Practices in the Evaluation and Treatment of Agitation) | Roppolo, Lynn P.; Morris, David W.; Khan, Fuad; Downs, Rohini; Metzger, Jeffery; Carder, Tiffany; Won, Ambrose H.; Wilson, Michael P. | 2020 | 10.1002/emp2.12138 | 54 |
| Worsening of emergency department length of stay during the COVID-19 pandemic | Lucero, Anthony; Sokol, Kimberly; Hyun, Jenny; Pan, Luhong; Labha, Joel; Donn, Eric; Kahwaji, Chadi; Miller, Gregg | 2021 | 10.1002/emp2.12489 | 51 |
| Artificial intelligence in emergency medicine: A scoping review | Kirubarajan, Abirami; Taher, Ahmed; Khan, Shawn; Masood, Sameer | 2020 | 10.1002/emp2.12277 | 50 |
| Canadian emergency physician psychological distress and burnout during the first 10 weeks of COVID-19: A mixed-methods study | de Wit, Kerstin; Mercuri, Mathew; Wallner, Clare; Clayton, Natasha; Archambault, Patrick; Ritchie, Kerri; Gerin-Lajoie, Caroline; Gray, Sara; Schwartz, Lisa; Chan, Teresa | 2020 | 10.1002/emp2.12225 | 50 |
| Whole blood transfusion versus component therapy in trauma resuscitation: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Crowe, Ellen; DeSantis, Stacia M.; Bonnette, Austin; Jansen, Jan O.; Yamal, Jose-Miguel; Holcomb, John B.; Pedroza, Claudia; Harvin, John A.; Marques, Marisa B.; Avritscher, Elenir B. C.; Wang, Henry E. | 2020 | 10.1002/emp2.12089 | 50 |
| Novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): Emergence and implications for emergency care | Yee, Jane; Unger, Lucy; Zadravecz, Frank; Cariello, Paloma; Seibert, Allan; Johnson, Michael Austin; Fuller, Matthew Joseph | 2020 | 10.1002/emp2.12034 | 47 |
| Pragmatic recommendations for intubating critically ill patients with suspected COVID-19 | Brown III, Calvin A.; Mosier, Jarrod M.; Carlson, Jestin N.; Gibbs, Michael A. | 2020 | 10.1002/emp2.12063 | 46 |
| System impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City's emergency medical services | Prezant, David J.; Lancet, Elizabeth A.; Zeig-Owens, Rachel; Lai, Pamela H.; Appel, David; Webber, Mayris P.; Braun, James; Hall, Charles B.; Asaeda, Glenn; Kaufman, Bradley; Weiden, Michael D. | 2020 | 10.1002/emp2.12301 | 40 |
5. Social Media and Online Presence
JACEP Open promotes the journal through social media outlets, including X, Facebook, Instagram, and most recently on LinkedIn. The journal has 773 followers on X and received 27,364 impressions in 2024 (Table 7). The Instagram account is used to promote the journal’s Videos in Emergency Medicine section. Altmetric scores offer additional insights of JACEP Open’s impact on social and public media (Table 8).
Table 7.
Top viewed X posts for 2024 JACEP Open articles.
| Article | X source |
|---|---|
| Impact of emergency department-based intensive care unit on outcomes of decompensating boarding emergency department patients (https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12896) | https://twitter.com/JACEPOpen/status/1779970457967505842 |
| The i-gel supraglottic airway device compared with endotracheal intubation as the initial prehospital advanced airway device: A natural experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/emp2.13162) | https://twitter.com/JACEPOpen/status/1830682108735406357 |
| Emergency physician resource utilization varies by years of experience (https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.13162) | https://twitter.com/JACEPOpen/status/1645524578557460493 |
Table 8.
Top Altmetric scores for 2024 JACEP Open articles.
| Altmetric attention score | Title | Article type | Publication date | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189 | Alcohol use is associated with intracranial hemorrhage in older emergency department head trauma patients | Original Research | 7/31/2024 | https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.13245 |
| 102 | State of the art of sepsis care for the emergency medicine clinician | Review Article | 8/12/2024 | https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.13264 |
| 83 | Impacts of the 2021 heat dome on emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and health system operations in three hospitals in Seattle, Washington | Original Research | 1/20/2024 | https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.13098 |
| 60 | Noninvasive respiratory support in the emergency department: Controversies and state of the art recommendations | Review Article | 3/7/2024 | https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.13118 |
| 53 | The hospital costs of high emergency department pediatric readiness | Original Research | 6/3/2024 | https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.13179 |
JACEP Open appeared in more than 360 articles in media outlets, such as Associated Press, Becker's Hospital Review, Benzinga, Canadian Insidendr, EurekAlert, Morning Star, MSN, Physician's Weekly, ReachMD, Times Telegram, Yahoo! News, and others. The journal’s top news headline mention for 2024 was on Good Morning America/ABC News on February 16, 2024, for “Amid rising measles cases, a new generation of doctors is being taught how to spot the disease.”
6. Editorial Board
The JACEP Open editorial board plays a pivotal role in the success of the journal. The current editorial board includes 50 editors, of whom 16 are women and 3 are international editors. In 2024, we recruited 8 new editors, including 3 editors for the Observation Medicine collection. We also recruited a new assistant editor for the Toxicology section and 2 assistant editors for Critical Care. Four individuals serve as methodology-statistical editors, and a new methodology-statistical editor will be added to the editorial board, assuring expert assessment of all original research manuscripts with more advanced statistical and analytic methods.
7. Peer Reviewers
Currently, there are over 361 individuals in JACEP Open’s pool of primary reviewers. In 2024, JACEP Open peer reviewers completed 673 assignments. JACEP Open recognized the top 25 peer reviewers for 2022-2023 (Table 9) and will do so again in 2023-2024. JACEP Open offers continuing medical education credits to all peer reviewers, which will now be offered by ACEP and sent at the end of the calendar year.
Table 9.
Top 25 peer reviewers for 2022-2023.
| FitzGerald Alcindor, MD |
| Alexandra Amaducci, DO |
| Eileen Baker, MD, PhD |
| David Barlas, MD |
| Brent A. Becker, MD |
| Craig Beringer, MBBch, MMed |
| Stephen V. Cantrill, MD |
| James Chan, MD |
| Neeraj Chhabra, MD |
| Hilary Fairbrother, MD, MPH |
| James A. Feldman, MD, MPH |
| Susan M. Fuchs, MD |
| Robert Klemisch, MD |
| Joshua Krieger, MD |
| Samuel Luber, MD, MPH |
| Jonathan Meadows, DO, MS |
| Eric Melnychuk, DO |
| David Munter, MD, MBA |
| Mark Mycyk, MD |
| Edward A. Ramoska, MD, MPH |
8. Educational Activities and Initiatives
Members of JACEP Open editorial board partnered with members of the Annals of Emergency Medicine editorial board to provide an author’s workshop titled “Editors’ Pearls” at the 2024 ACEP Scientific Assembly. The workshop provided guidance and pearls for successful publishing in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
9. Special Collections
In 2023, the journal launched a new special collection in Critical Care spearheaded by JACEP Open editors Nicholas Johnson, MD, and Robert Levine, MD, and built on JACEP Open’s existing body of published Critical Care papers. Fourteen articles have already been published in the Critical Care Special Collection. Other special collections include Informatics, led by Adam Landman, MD, MS, R. Andrew Taylor, MD, MHS, and Nathan Hoot, MD, PhD, and Observation Medicine, led by Christopher Baugh, MD, Matthew Wheatley, MD, and Joseph Lykins, MD.
JACEP Open published scientific abstracts from the 2024 Pennsylvania College of Emergency Physicians (PACEP) Scientific Assembly.1 The publication of additional abstracts from national and international conferences is planned for 2025.
Reference
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