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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 the past 5 years, 1,224 different journals in the ISI science journal database cited an article in Annals.

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 2008 submissions came to us from 39 different countries, with 36% of submissions originating outside the United States, and 19% originating outside North America and Western Europe. Asia and Europe each contributed 15%, and the Middle East 2%. The largest volume other than the U.S. was submitted from Taiwan, Turkey, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Korea, Netherlands, and Australia, in descending order. But the list also includes Brazil, Thailand, Mexico, Tunisia, Georgia, Finland, and Bulgaria.

Annals of Emergency Medicine is ranked 1^st of 12 in the Emergency Medicine category on the 2009 Journal Citation Reports®, published by Thomson Reuters, and has an Impact Factor of 3.755.

In 2009 Annals was chosen one of the 100 most influential scientific journals of the past 100 years by the Special Libraries Association (www.sla.org). The Special Libraries Association is one of the most respected and largest (11,000 members) library organizations. The entire list is at ( www.sla.org/content/Events/centennial/dbio100.cfm). Some of the high profile medical journals on the list were Cell, Circulation, JAMA, The Lancet, Nature, NEJM, and Science. Annals is flattered to have received this recognition, which is testimony to the hard work, talent, and dedication of its editorial board, its staff, and all the authors who contribute to it.

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Impact Factor

* 2009 Journal Citation Reports®, published by Thomson Reuters

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