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African Journal of Emergency Medicine

African Federation for Emergency Medicine · South Africa · Est. 2011

ISSN2211-4203

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.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.434

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.778

Total Worksi

1,023

Total Citationsi

10,354

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.96

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Emergency Medicine; Critical Care Nursing; Emergency Nursing; Geochemistry and Petrology; Gerontology.

General Information

Country / RegionSouth Africa

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2011

Annual Volume~ 67 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,023

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

OA Since2010

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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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

African Federation for Emergency Medicine

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2211-4203

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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

694

2019

125

1.4k

2020

574

2021

612

2022

305

2023

143

2024

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.

Critical Care NursingQ2

Emergency MedicineQ2

Emergency NursingQ2

Geochemistry and PetrologyQ3

GerontologyQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Emergency Medicine

Scopus Categories

GerontologyCritical Care NursingGeochemistry and PetrologyEmergency NursingEmergency Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesEmergency and Acute Care StudiesDisaster Response and ManagementCardiac Arrest and ResuscitationInjury Epidemiology and PreventionGlobal Health and SurgeryGlobal Maternal and Child HealthSepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentSimulation-Based Education in HealthcareUltrasound in Clinical Applications

Frequently asked questions about African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Is African Journal of Emergency Medicine a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for African 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 African Journal of Emergency Medicine?

African 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 0.96.

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

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

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