Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine is an open access emergency medicine journal that began as a California publication and now runs under four sponsoring organisations.《西部急诊医学》是一本开放获取的急诊医学刊物，起初只面向加州，如今由四家机构共同支持。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3 and the five-year figure 2.5.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年影响因子 2.5。

Clarivate places it 21st of 55 in emergency medicine, which is Q2.科睿唯安把它排在急诊医学 55 种刊的第 21，属 Q2。

The 2026 volume is the 27th, since volume 1 opened in 2000.2026 年是第 27 卷，第 1 卷从 2000 年起算。

Authors keep copyright and pay 1,250 dollars, whether the paper is original research, a review or a letter.作者保留版权，研究，综述与来信一律付 1250 美元。

Scope

• Original research runs to 4,000 words, and the brief research report track to 1,500.原创研究限 4000 词，简报这一轨限 1500 词。

• Educational advances get 4,000 words and the brief educational advances 1,500, so teaching work has its own pair of tracks.教育进展 4000 词，教育简报 1500 词，教学工作因此有自己的一对轨道。

• Systematic reviews and scoping reviews each get 4,000 words, and both tracks are open to unsolicited submissions.系统综述与范围综述各 4000 词，两条轨道都接受自投稿件。

• Narrative reviews also run to 4,000 words but are commissioned, and editorials at 2,000 words are likewise invited.叙述性综述同为 4000 词但属约稿，2000 词的社论同样由编辑部邀请。

• Letters close the list at 700 words.来信排在最后，限 700 词。

• Reports of studies must follow the checklist that matches the design, with STROBE for observational work and CONSORT for trials.研究报告要按与设计对应的清单填写，观察性研究用 STROBE，试验用 CONSORT。

• Systematic and scoping reviews use PRISMA, diagnostic accuracy studies STARD, and quality improvement work SQUIRE.系统综述与范围综述用 PRISMA，诊断准确性研究用 STARD，质量改进项目用 SQUIRE。

• Economic evaluations follow CHEERS, qualitative work COREQ and the search report SRQR.经济学评价用 CHEERS，定性研究用 COREQ，检索报告用 SRQR。

• The author list is capped at twelve names, and the title at 100 characters.作者名单上限十二人，题名上限 100 个字符。

• Authors name three to five possible reviewers at submission, and the editors are free to ignore the list.投稿时作者要推荐三到五位评审人，编辑可以不予采纳。

• Any use of generative tools has to be declared in the submission.凡是用了生成式工具的地方都要在投稿时声明。

• Review is double blind, with reviewers chosen from a pool that the journal says numbers three to five per paper.评审为双盲，刊物称每篇稿子从三到五位评审人的池子里挑人。

• The article processing charge is 1,250 dollars whatever the article type, and there is no separate submission fee.不论稿子属于哪一类，处理费都是 1250 美元，投稿环节不另收费。

• Two fee waivers are available each academic year to departments that subscribe, and authors in low and middle income countries can apply after acceptance.订阅刊物的科室每学年有两个减免名额，中低收入国家的作者可在录用后申请减免。

• Six issues appear online each year alongside special issues, and the print run is 2,800 copies.每年在线出六期，另有专刊，纸本印量 2800 份。

• The electronic list carries the journal to 19,000 readers, and 83 departments subscribe.电子投递把刊物送到 19000 位读者手里，订阅科室 83 个。

• Eight state chapters of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and 48 departmental sponsors support the publication.美国急诊医学学会的八个州分会与 48 个科室赞助方支撑这本刊物。

• Four international partnerships, in Argentina, Chile, Thailand and Turkey, extend the readership beyond North America.阿根廷，智利，泰国与土耳其的四项国际合作把读者群推到北美之外。

History

• The journal opened in July 2000 as the California Journal of Emergency Medicine, founded by Robert W. Derlet.刊物于 2000 年 7 月以《加州急诊医学杂志》的名义创刊，创办人是 Robert W. Derlet。

• It took its present name in August 2007 under Mark Langdorf, which moved it from a state title to a regional one.2007 年 8 月改用现在的刊名，主持这次更名的是 Mark Langdorf，刊名由州域改为区域。

• MEDLINE coverage begins with volume 15, number 1, dated November 2014.MEDLINE 收录从第 15 卷第 1 期开始，那一期的日期是 2014 年 11 月。

• Volume and year have kept step since 2000, which puts 2026 at volume 27 and the arithmetic at year minus 1999.卷号自 2000 年起与年份同步，2026 年即第 27 卷，算法为年份减 1999。

• The National Library's frequency field reads bimonthly from 2012, which is the pattern the six online issues now fill.国家医学图书馆的频率字段从 2012 年起写作双月刊，如今由六个在线期号来填。

• The imprint on the earliest record is Orange, California, and the current one is Irvine, which follows the editorial office.最早记录的出版地是加州奥兰治，现行记录是欧文，跟着编辑部搬过去的。

• Publication moved onto the University of California's eScholarship platform, which also runs the submission system.出版转到加州大学的 eScholarship 平台，投稿系统也由它承担。

• Crossref still records the journal itself as publisher, while OpenAlex names eScholarship Publishing at the University of California as the host.Crossref 把刊物本身记为出版方，OpenAlex 则把加州大学的 eScholarship 出版部门记为宿主。

• The sponsoring organisations are the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians, the California chapter of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.赞助方为美国急诊医师学会加州分会，美国骨科急诊医师学会，美国急诊医学学会加州分会，以及加州大学欧文分校医学院。

• Impact factors over five reported years read 2.453 in 2021, 3.985 in 2022, 1.8 in 2023, 2 in 2024 and 2.3 in 2025.五个已公布年度的影响因子为 2021 年 2.453，2022 年 3.985，2023 年 1.8，2024 年 2，2025 年 2.3。

• The 2025 volume carries 224 articles with 4,589 citations, and the cited half-life is 6.5 years.2025 年那一卷有 224 篇文章，总被引 4589 次，引用半衰期 6.5 年。

• Gold open access covers 82.95 percent of the output, so most papers are free at the point of use.金色开放获取覆盖 82.95% 的发文，多数文章在使用端免费。

• The journal citation indicator for 2025 is 0.87 at percentile 62.7.2025 年期刊引文指标 0.87，百分位 62.7。

• A companion title, Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, published its volume 10 in 2026 and takes the case material that the main journal does not.姊妹刊《急诊医学临床实践与病例》在 2026 年出到第 10 卷，承接主刊不收的病例材料。

• The archives run from the 2000 volume to the current one without a break, and every issue is open on the journal site.过刊从 2000 年那一卷排到当前卷，中间没有断档，每期都在刊物站上开放。

• Special issues have gathered conference abstracts and themed collections, which sit outside the six regular numbers.专刊收过会议摘要与主题合集，不占六期正刊的位置。

• Submissions run on a Janeway installation that the University of California library maintains, which is the same platform the journal is published on.投稿系统跑在加州大学图书馆维护的一套 Janeway 安装上，与刊物发布所在的平台是同一套。

• The title sits in Science Citation Index Expanded, MEDLINE and PubMed, and the full text is mirrored in PubMed Central.刊物收在《科学引文索引》扩展版，MEDLINE 与 PubMed，全文另在 PubMed Central 有镜像。

• Every article carries a DOI that Crossref files with the journal itself as publisher.每篇文章都带 DOI，Crossref 登记时把出版方写成刊物自己。

Editors

• Mark I. Langdorf at the University of California, Irvine, holds the editor-in-chief post, as he has since the 2007 renaming.主编 Mark I. Langdorf 来自加州大学欧文分校，自 2007 年更名起就在这个位子上。

• Three associate editors work alongside him, Rick McPheeters, Edward Michelson and Gary Gaddis.与他搭档的是三位副编辑，Rick McPheeters，Edward Michelson 与 Gary Gaddis。

• Robert W. Derlet, who founded the journal as a California title, carries the founding editor label in the journal's own listing.当年以加州刊名创刊的 Robert W. Derlet，在刊物自己的名单上写作创始主编。

• Kazzi, long the managing editor, is now listed as emeritus on the board page.Kazzi 长期担任执行编辑，现以荣休身份列在编委页上。

• The editorial office sits within the department of emergency medicine at the University of California, Irvine.编辑部设在加州大学欧文分校的急诊医学系内。

• Manuscripts reach reviewers through the journal's own submission system on the eScholarship platform rather than through a commercial editorial manager.稿件经刊物在 eScholarship 平台上的自有投稿系统送到评审人手里，不走商业稿件管理系统。

• Reviewers judge against the checklist that matches the study design, so the report form differs by article type.评审人按与研究设计对应的清单来判，评审表因此随稿件类型变化。

• The board page names the editor-in-chief, the associate editors, the founding editor and the emeritus managing editor in that order, without research interests.编委页按主编，副编辑，创始主编，荣休执行编辑的次序排列，不写研究兴趣。