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World Journal of Emergency Medicine

Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine · China · Est. 1989

ISSN1920-8642eISSN1920-8642

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.513

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.677

Total Worksi

1,077

Total Citationsi

10,866

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.15

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Emergency Medicine.

General Information

Country / RegionChina

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1989

FrequencyBimonthly, 2022-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,077

Region🌍 Global South

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1920-8642 / 1920-8642

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

575

2019

592

2020

563

2021

491

2022

101

464

2023

103

256

2024

116

128

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Emergency MedicineQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Emergency Medicine

Scopus Categories

Emergency Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentCardiac Arrest and ResuscitationTrauma and Emergency Care StudiesEmergency and Acute Care StudiesRespiratory Support and MechanismsPoisoning and overdose treatmentsUltrasound in Clinical ApplicationsSimulation-Based Education in HealthcareHemodynamic Monitoring and TherapyImmune Response and Inflammation

Frequently asked questions about World Journal of Emergency Medicine

Is World Journal of Emergency Medicine a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for World Journal of Emergency Medicine: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of World Journal of Emergency Medicine?

World Journal of Emergency Medicine is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.15.

Is World Journal of Emergency Medicine indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

World Journal of Emergency Medicine is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of World Journal of Emergency Medicine?