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Prehospital management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Guest Editors:
Robert Larribau, MD, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Song Yi Park, MD, PhD, Ulsan University Hospital, Republic of Korea

Submission Status: Open until 5 January 2026

Geriatric emergency medicine

Guest Editors:
Jui-Yuan Chung, MD, Cathay General Hospital, Taiwan
Simon Conroy, MB, ChB, PhD, Royal London Hospital, United Kingdom
James van Oppen, PhD, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Submission Status: Open until 18 December 2025

Trauma-informed care

Guest Editors:
Rayan Alharbi, BParamedSc, MCritCare (Paramedic), Jazan University, Saudi Arabia
Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, United States

Submission Status: Open until 12 November 2025

Patient wait times in emergency departments

Guest Editors:
Niamh Cummins, PhD, University of Limerick, Ireland
Chip-Jin Ng, MHA, MD, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Katie Robinson, PhD, University of Limerick, Ireland

Submission Status: Open until 23 October 2025

Hemorrhage control in trauma

Guest Editor:
Pradeep Harkison Navsaria, MBChB, MMed, FCS, HPCSA, FACS, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Submission Status: Open until 15 July 2025

Pediatric pulmonary emergencies

Guest Editors:
Hyuksool Kwon, MD, PhD, Seoul National University, South Korea
Hendry Sawe, MD, MBA, PhD, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania

Submission Status: Open until 17 June 2025

Closed head injuries

Guest Editors:
Endre Czeiter, MD, PhD, University of Pécs, Hungary
Arian Zaboli, RN, MSN, Innovation, Research and Teaching Service (SABES-ASDAA), Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical Private University (PMU), Italy


Submission Status: Open until 29 May 2025

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Violent crimes in the pre-hospital and hospital setting

Guest Editors:
Ardavan M. Khoshnood, MD, PhD: Lund University & Skane University Hospital, Sweden
Daniel B. Wilhelms, MD, PhD: Linköping University, Sweden
 

Triage system in emergency medicine

Guest Editor: Arian Zaboli

Optimizing opioid prescriptions in emergency departments

Guest Editors:
Ashraf A. Dahaba: MD, 
Suez Canal University, Egypt
Rishi S. Nannan Panday: MD, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands

Mental health response to community disasters

Guest Editors:
Dilwar Hussain, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
Amy Nitza, PhD, Institute for Disaster Mental Health at the State University of New York at New Paltz, United States
Tara Powell, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, United States.

Pediatric emergency medicine

Guest Editors:
Stephen Hearps, AProf: Murdoch Children's Research Institute and The University of Melbourne, Australia
Sriram Ramgopal, MD: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, United States
 

Stroke management

Guest Editors:
Jason Philip Appleton, MBChB, MRCP(UK), PhD, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, UK
Jessalyn K Holodinsky, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada
 

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 2.3
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.5
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.936
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.745

    Speed 2024
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 5
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 131

    Usage 2024
    Downloads: 1,290,540
    Altmetric mentions: 641

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