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Best Emergency Medicine journals

111 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Emergency Medicine. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 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 93th Q1 ESCI Yes
9 European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery 5.1 92th Q1 SCIE No
10 Emergencias 5 91th 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 83th Q1 SCIE No
20 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine 4.4 81th Q1 ESCI Yes
21 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 4.4 81th 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 73th Q2 SCIE No
31 Open Access Emergency Medicine 3.2 72th Q2 ESCI Yes
32 World Journal of Emergency Medicine 3.1 71th 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 63th Q2 SCIE Yes
42 AEM Education and Training 2.4 62th Q2 ESCI No
43 Pediatric Emergency Care 2.4 62th 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 53th Q2 Yes
53 Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation 1.7 52th Q2 ESCI Yes
54 Emergency and Critical Care Medicine 1.6 51th 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 43th Q3 ESCI Yes
64 Journal of Public Health and Emergency 1.3 42th Q3 ESCI No
65 Health in Emergencies and Disasters Quarterly 1.3 41th 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 33th Q3 No
75 International Journal of Emergency Management 1.1 32th Q3 ESCI No
76 Journal of Acute Medicine 1.1 31th Q3 ESCI No
77 Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters 1 31th Q3 No
78 Journal of Health Administration 1 30th Q3 Yes
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 23th Q4 ESCI Yes
86 Journal of Arrhythmology 0.7 22th Q4 Yes
87 Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases 0.6 22th Q4 No
88 Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine 0.6 21th 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

Rank and percentile are within the Emergency Medicine Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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