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 Official Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians
Editor-in-Chief:
Michael L. Callaham MD
See editorial board for all editors information
Description
Scope and Stature of the Journal
Annals of Emergency Medicine, the official journal of the American College of
Emergency Physicians, is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to improving the quality of care by publishing the highest
quality science for emergency medicine and related medical specialties. Annals publishes original research, clinical reports,
opinion, and educational information related to the practice, teaching, and research of emergency medicine. In addition to general emergency
medicine topics, Annals regularly publishes articles on out-of-hospital emergency medical services, pediatric emergency medicine,
injury and disease prevention, health policy and ethics, disaster management, toxicology, and related topics. The journal welcomes submissions
from international contributors and researchers of all specialties.
Annals continues to be the largest circulation peer
review journal in emergency medicine (over 28,000 subscribers, several times its nearest competitor). It is also one of the most accessible
to non-subscribing readers, since over 1,786 medical school and hospital libraries subscribe to it in print and 5,372 institutions include Annals in their online licenses for ScienceDirect (the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine
full text and bibliographic information). ScienceDirect was utilized for access to Annals articles approximately 429,000 times
last year, a 37% increase from the prior year. Annals is also available on the Web (with full text of all articles dating back
to its inception), where it received over 828,000 page views (about twice the previous year). More than 47,800 reprint requests were
ordered last year.
Annals is the emergency medicine journal most frequently cited by authors. In 2007 Annals again
increased its impact factor (average citation rate per article); over the past 10 years Annals has averaged an increase in impact
factor more than 4 times greater than the average for all medical journals combined. Among 6,417 science and medical journals in the
Science Citation Index, Annals ranked in the top 12% by citation frequency and the top 12% by impact factor. Annals
continues to have the highest impact factor of all 11 emergency medicine/resuscitation journals tracked by SCI, but has further increased
the size of its lead over its nearest competitor this year (37%).
In a typical year, Annals articles are cited by over 400
different scientific journals, most of them from a broad range of specialties outside of emergency medicine. Annals, of course,
is also the journal most frequently cited by other emergency medicine journals. Annals articles also generate considerable interest
in the lay media, with approximately 620 hits in print, radio and television, not including audio news releases. Major outlets included
the New York Times, the Wall St. Journal, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles
Times, USA Today, Modern Healthcare, Reuters, Associated Press and CNN, as well as many trade publications. We
distributed two audio news releases about Annals studies to radio stations around the country. One on rising rates of elderly
patients in the emergency department (study author Mary Pat McKay, MD, MPH) was aired 4,798 times on radio stations around the country
and reached 20 million listeners. Another audio news release on low rates of reimbursement for Medicaid patients (study author Renee
Hsia, MD, MSc) was aired 4,019 times on radio stations and reached 10 million listeners.
Annals is an international journal;
half of the full text articles accessed via ScienceDirect were downloaded by readers in 79 countries outside the U.S. Our contributors
are also international in scope; in 2007 submissions came to us from 39 different countries, with 32% of submissions originating outside
the United States, and 15% originating outside North America and Western Europe. The largest volume other than the U.S. was submitted
from Taiwan, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, and France, in descending order. But the list also includes Korea,
Morocco, Argentina, Albania, Serbia, Iceland, India, Iran, and Tunisia.
We strongly believe we have an obligation to make our journal
available to international audiences regardless of their financial resources, and therefore have participated for many years in the HINARI
initiative sponsored by large journal publishers ( http://www.healthinternetwork.org/src/eligibility.php ), which makes Annals
available free or at greatly reduced cost in low-income countries. In 2007, Annals ranked 141st out of 1,423 Elsevier
journal titles in full-text downloads of articles in HINARI countries.
Annals of Emergency Medicine is ranked 1st
of 12 in the Emergency Medicine category on the 2008 Journal Citation Reports®, published by Thomson Reuters.
| Bibliographic details |
ISSN: 0196-0644
Imprint: MOSBY
Subscriptions for the year 2009,
Volumes 53-54,
12 issues |
| Price and Ordering |
Institutional price:
USD 486
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Personal price:
USD 298
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Student price:
USD 184
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Student price USA:
USD 106
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Personal price USA:
USD 213
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Single issue price:
USD 41
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Institutional price USA:
USD 399
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Conditions of sale & ordering procedures.
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Impact factor of this journal
2007: 3.500 Ranked 1st of 12 in the Emergency Medicine category
© Journal Citation Reports 2008, published by Thomson Reuters
To order this journal, and for more information, go to
http://www.elsevierhealth.com
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Last update: 2 Oct 2008
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