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 5,365 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 562,000 times last year, a 24% 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 an average of 55,000 page
views per month. More than 145,000 reprints were ordered last year.
Annals is the emergency medicine journal most frequently
cited by authors and has the highest impact factor of all 12 journals in the emergency medicine category of the SCI. The impact factor
(the average number of citations per published article) is the commonest measure of journal influence; the 2008 impact factor for Annals
is 3.755, representing 8,227 citations (a 15% increase from the prior year). Among the over 6,000 science and medical journals in the
Science Citation Index, Annals ranked in the top 11% by citation frequency and the top 11% by impact factor. In the past 5 years,
1,224 different journals in the ISI science journal database cited an article in Annals, and 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' articles also generate considerable interest in the lay media. From October 2007 through September 2008 there were
more than 1,250 hits in print and television. Radio coverage grew from 8,000 hits to 13,092 hits. Major outlets included the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Reuters, Associated
Press and CNN, as well as many trade publications.
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. The largest volume other than the U.S. was submitted from Taiwan, Turkey, Canada, France, the
United Kingdom, Korea, Netherlands, and Australia, in descending order. But the list also includes Brazil, Thailand, Mexico, Tunisia,
Georgia, Finland, and Bulgaria.
