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Best Emergency Medicine journals

111 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Emergency Medicine. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 28 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Burns and Trauma 15.7 99th Q1 SCIE – Yes
2 Advances in Wound Care 13 98th Q1 SCIE – No
3 World Journal of Emergency Surgery 10.3 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
4 Resuscitation 8.6 96th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Annals of Emergency Medicine 6.8 95th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Current Heart Failure Reports 6.5 95th Q1 ESCI – No
7 Internal and Emergency Medicine 6 94th Q1 SCIE – No
8 Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine 5.9 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
9 European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery 5.1 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
10 Emergencias 5 91st Q1 SCIE – No
11 Shock 4.9 90th Q1 SCIE – No
12 Academic Emergency Medicine 4.8 89th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 4.8 88th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Burns 4.7 87th Q1 SCIE – No
15 American Journal of Emergency Medicine 4.6 86th Q1 SCIE – No
16 European Journal of Emergency Medicine 4.6 86th Q1 SCIE – No
17 Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma 4.5 85th Q1 ESCI – No
18 Prehospital Emergency Care 4.4 84th Q1 SCIE – No
19 Emergency Medicine Journal 4.4 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
20 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine 4.4 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
21 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 4.4 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
22 Injury 4.2 80th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Intensive Care Medicine Experimental 4.2 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
24 BMC Emergency Medicine 4.1 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
25 Traumatology 3.9 77th Q1 ESCI – No
26 Chinese Journal of Traumatology - English Edition 3.8 77th Q1 ESCI – Yes
27 Resuscitation Plus 3.8 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
28 Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America 3.7 75th Q1 SCIE – No
29 Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine 3.5 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
30 Journal of Burn Care and Research 3.3 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
31 Open Access Emergency Medicine 3.2 72nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
32 World Journal of Emergency Medicine 3.1 71st Q2 SCIE – No
33 Critical Care and Resuscitation 2.9 70th Q2 SCIE – No
34 JACEP Open 2.8 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
35 Emergency Radiology 2.8 68th Q2 ESCI – No
36 Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2.7 68th Q2 SCIE – Yes
37 Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine 2.7 67th Q2 SCIE – No
38 EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia 2.7 66th Q2 SCIE – No
39 Medizinische Klinik - Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin 2.6 65th Q2 SCIE – No
40 Health Security 2.5 64th Q2 SSCI – No
41 African Journal of Emergency Medicine 2.5 63rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
42 AEM Education and Training 2.4 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
43 Pediatric Emergency Care 2.4 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
44 International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2.3 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
45 Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi 2.1 59th Q2 SCIE – No
46 Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 2.1 59th Q2 SCIE – No
47 Paramedicine 2 58th Q2 – – Yes
48 Journal of Emergency Medicine 2 57th Q2 SCIE – No
49 Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2 56th Q2 ESCI – No
50 Emergency Medicine International 1.7 55th Q2 SCIE – Yes
51 AACN Advanced Critical Care 1.7 54th Q2 ESCI – No
52 Annals of Critical Care 1.7 53rd Q2 – – Yes
53 Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation 1.7 52nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
54 Emergency and Critical Care Medicine 1.6 51st Q2 ESCI – Yes
55 Frontiers in Emergency Medicine 1.6 50th Q2 ESCI – No
56 Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal 1.5 50th Q2 – – No
57 Notfall und Rettungsmedizin 1.5 49th Q3 SCIE – No
58 International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science 1.5 48th Q3 – – No
59 Trauma (United Kingdom) 1.5 47th Q3 ESCI – No
60 Burns Open 1.4 46th Q3 – – Yes
61 Air Medical Journal 1.4 45th Q3 – – No
62 Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock 1.3 44th Q3 ESCI – Yes
63 Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 1.3 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
64 Journal of Public Health and Emergency 1.3 42nd Q3 ESCI – No
65 Health in Emergencies and Disasters Quarterly 1.3 41st Q3 – – Yes
66 Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal 1.3 40th Q3 ESCI – No
67 Unfallchirurgie (Germany) 1.3 40th Q3 SCIE – No
68 Signa Vitae 1.2 39th Q3 – – No
69 Russian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimatology /Anesteziologiya i Reanimatologiya 1.2 38th Q3 – – No
70 Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine 1.1 37th Q3 SCIE – Yes
71 Medico-Biological and Socio-Psychological Issues of Safety in Emergency Situations 1.1 36th Q3 – – No
72 Acta Medica Indonesiana 1.1 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
73 Journal of Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Acute Care 1.1 34th Q3 – – Yes
74 Acute Medicine 1.1 33rd Q3 – – No
75 International Journal of Emergency Management 1.1 32nd Q3 ESCI – No
76 Journal of Acute Medicine 1.1 31st Q3 ESCI – No
77 Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters 1 31st Q3 – – No
78 Journal of Health Administration 1 30th Q3 – – No
79 Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS 1 29th Q3 SCIE – No
80 Journal of Emergency Management 0.9 28th Q3 – – No
81 Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine 0.9 27th Q3 – – No
82 Messenger of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation 0.9 26th Q3 – – Yes
83 Medicina Katastrof 0.8 25th Q3 – – Yes
84 Trauma Case Reports 0.8 24th Q4 – – Yes
85 Journal of Trauma and Injury 0.7 23rd Q4 ESCI – Yes
86 Journal of Arrhythmology 0.7 22nd Q4 – – Yes
87 Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases 0.6 22nd Q4 – – No
88 Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine 0.6 21st Q4 – – Yes
89 Journal of Research in Clinical Medicine 0.6 20th Q4 – – Yes
90 Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma 0.6 19th Q4 – – Yes
91 Trauma Monthly 0.6 18th Q4 ESCI – No
92 Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management 0.5 17th Q4 – – No
93 Chinese Journal of Trauma 0.5 16th Q4 – – No
94 Bali Journal of Anesthesiology 0.5 15th Q4 – – Yes
95 Russian Sklifosovsky Journal of Emergency Medical Care 0.5 14th Q4 – – Yes
96 Emergency Care Journal 0.5 13th Q4 ESCI – Yes
97 Journal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine (Turkey) 0.5 13th Q4 ESCI – Yes
98 Kardiologiya i Serdechno-Sosudistaya Khirurgiya 0.4 12th Q4 – – No
99 Emergency Medicine (Ukraine) 0.4 11th Q4 – – Yes
100 Journal of Endovascular Resuscitation and Trauma Management 0.4 10th Q4 ESCI – Yes
101 Russian Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care 0.4 9th Q4 – – No
102 Chinese Journal of Emergency Medicine 0.3 8th Q4 – – No
103 Notarzt 0.3 7th Q4 SCIE – No
104 Annales Francaises de Medecine d'Urgence 0.3 6th Q4 ESCI – No
105 Anatolian journal of emergency medicine 0.2 5th Q4 – – No
106 Journal of Clinical Emergency 0.2 4th Q4 – – No
107 Oxymag 0.1 4th Q4 – – No
108 Praticien en Anesthesie Reanimation 0.1 3rd Q4 – – No
109 Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma 0.1 2nd Q4 – – No
110 Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine 0.1 1st Q4 – – No
111 Medical physics – the current status, problems, the way of development. Innovation technologies 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Emergency Medicine Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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