Commenced from 1975 and calculated based on the number of overall journal citations in a year divided by the number of citable publications in the preceding two years, Journal Impact Factor (JIF) became a convenient and conventional proxy to appraise a journal's trustworthiness and its scholarly impact in a given field (1)

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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2023; 11(1): e54EDITORIALJournal Citation Report 2023 of Emergency Medicine Jour-nals; New Players in the Impact Factor RankingSaeed Safari1,2∗, Mahmoud Yousefifard3,41. Emergency Department, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.2. Chairman and Deputy Editor in Chief of Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine.3. Medical Physiology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.4. Editorial Manager of Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine.Received: May 2023; Accepted: June 2023; Published online: 26 July 2023Cite this article as: Safari S, Yousefifard M. Journal Citation Report 2023 of Emergency Medicine Journals; New Players in the Impact FactorRanking. Arch Acad Emerg Med. 2023; 11(1): e54. https://doi.org/10.22037/aaem.v11i1.2107.Commenced from 1975 and calculated based on the numberof overall journal citations in a year divided by the numberof citable publications in the preceding two years, JournalImpact Factor (JIF) became a convenient and conventionalproxy to appraise a journal’s trustworthiness and its scholarlyimpact in a given field (1). Nearly a year ago, Clarivate Analyt-ics promised refinements in the provision of metrics of schol-arly journals of the Web of Science (WOS) database. The 2023edition of the annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR) finallydebuted these appealing changes. Addressing their commit-ment to more stringent research integrity, they inauguratedthe policy to assign JIF to all of their registered journals, in-cluding those indexed in the Emerging Source Citation Index(ESCI) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). Previ-ously, JCR assigned JIF merely to journals in the Science Ci-tation Index Expanded (SCIE) or the Social Sciences CitationIndex (SSCI) edition of WOS core collections. The expan-sion of JIF is commended as it is a decent solution to sur-mount hurdles associated with a lack of a consistent tool toevaluate all scholarly journals, especially contemporary onesthat have emerged from the developing world and recentlylaunched small publishers.Regarding the Emergency Medicine (EM) category, 22 jour-nals in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) attainedJIF, adding up to the 32 journals of SCIE. For its first JIFallocation, the journal “Archives of Academic EmergencyMedicine” (AAEM) was designated with a JIF of 5.4 and ac-ceded to the 5th position in EM journals, standing after the∗Corresponding Author: Saeed Safari; Emergency Department, ShohadayeTajrish Hospital, Tajrish Square, Tehran, Iran. Email: safari266@gmail.com,Tel: 009822721155, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7407-1739.highly prestigious journals of “World Journal of EmergencySurgery” (IF:8), “Resuscitation” (IF:6.5), “Annals of Emer-gency Medicine” (IF:6.2), and “Emergencias” (IF:5.5) andranked as the first EM journal in Asia (Table 1 and 2)(2).Moreover, its position would rise to 4th EM journal world-wide when considering JIF without self-citation of 5.0, whichexempts this journal from the probable nefarious editorialpolicies to increase its JIF bogusly (3).Congruous with the JCR recommendation to adopt a multi-faceted approach in appraising journals rather than solely re-lying on crude JIF, multiple indices should be contemplatedwhen one attempts to gauge a journal’s performance (4). TheImmediacy Index indicates how rapidly an article is pub-lished in a JCR year, thus providing a glance at journal prac-tices for augmenting publicity of its publication. The lowrank of AAEM with an Immediacy Index of 0.3 alludes to theindispensable role of active presence in academic social net-works (e.g., Linkedin, Researchgate, and Semantic Scholar).Nevertheless, caution should be exercised when comparingESCI journals with senior SCIE counterparts in employingsome parameters. For instance, the cited half-life, defined asthe median age of cited articles in a JCR year, is foreseeableto be lower for the nascent ESCI journals compared with themature SCIE journals. Hence, we propose instituting a mod-ified parameter adjusted for the journals’ date of establish-ment or the history of indexing in main databases to sustainan impartial ranking of journals and avert biased decisions byresearchers, institutes, or publishers when evaluating a jour-nal.Finally, in order to draw attention to the potential future de-velopments, we want to point out a consideration that mightstay out of sight. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the primeconcern of research was to shed light on this disease’s pre-This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0).Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/indexS. Safari & M. Yousefifard 2Table 1: Top 10 emergency medicine journals sorted by 2022 journal impact factorJournal Name 2022JIFJIF WithoutSelf Cites2022JCIJCIQuar-tileAISQuar-tileArticleInfluenceScoreImmediacyIndexCitedHalf-LifeTotalCita-tionsCitableItems% ofArticlesinCitableitemsWorld Journal of Emer-gency Surgery8.0 7.6 2.41 Q1 Q1 1.970 1.0 4.6 3,207 57 66.67Resuscitation 6.5 5.3 1.87 Q1 Q1 1.913 1.5 6.7 18,032 224 90.18Annals of EmergencyMedicine6.2 5.9 2.30 Q1 Q1 2.222 1.5 11.1 13,098 92 84.78Emergencias 5.5 3.8 1.40 Q1 Q3 0.562 1.6 2.9 944 38 94.74Archives of AcademicEmergency Medicine5.4 5.0 1.51 Q1 Q1 1.035 0.3 2.4 827 80 76.25Burns & Trauma 5.3 4.8 1.70 Q1 Q1 1.080 1.4 3.9 1,643 54 61.11Academic EmergencyMedicine4.4 4.1 1.56 Q1 Q1 1.459 0.8 10.4 10,838 95 72.63European Journal ofEmergency Medicine4.4 3.2 1.03 Q2 Q2 0.849 1.3 6.9 2,176 45 82.22American Journal ofEmergency Medicine3.6 3.4 1.46 Q1 Q2 0.834 0.8 4.5 15,437 534 93.63Scandinavian Journal ofTrauma Resuscitation &Emergency Medicine3.3 3.1 1.32 Q1 Q1 1.044 0.5 5.5 3,826 72 91.67JIF: Journal Impact Factor; JCI: Journal Citation Indicator; AIS: Article Influence Score.Table 2: Top 10 emergency medicine journals sorted by 2022 journal impact factorJournal Name 5-YearJIF5-Year JIFQuartile2022JCIJCIQuar-tileAISQuar-tileArticleInfluenceScoreImmediacyIndexCitedHalf-LifeTotalCita-tionsCitableItems% ofArticlesinCitableitemsWorld Journal of Emer-gency Surgery7.7 Q1 2.41 Q1 Q1 1.970 1.0 4.6 3,207 57 66.67Burns & Trauma 5.9 Q1 1.70 Q1 Q1 1.080 1.4 3.9 1,643 54 61.11Annals of EmergencyMedicine5.8 Q1 2.30 Q1 Q1 2.222 1.5 11.1 13,098 92 84.78Resuscitation 5.4 Q1 1.87 Q1 Q1 1.913 1.5 6.7 18,032 224 90.18Archives of AcademicEmergency Medicine4.5 N/A 1.51 Q1 Q1 1.035 0.3 2.4 827 80 76.25Turkish Journal of Emer-gency Medicine4.5 N/A 0.38 Q3 Q1 1.116 0.2 4.5 1,015 40 82.50Academic EmergencyMedicine4.0 Q1 1.56 Q1 Q1 1.459 0.8 10.4 10,838 95 72.63Scandinavian Journal ofTrauma Resuscitation &Emergency Medicine3.5 Q1 1.32 Q1 Q1 1.044 0.5 5.5 3,826 72 91.67Emergency MedicineJournal3.2 Q1 1.20 Q1 Q1 1.042 0.9 8.8 6,320 83 75.90Western Journal of Emer-gency Medicine3.1 Q1 1.06 Q1 Q1 1.023 0.6 5.1 4,170 65 96.92JIF: Journal Impact Factor; JCI: Journal Citation Indicator; AIS: Article Influence Score; N/A: not applicable.vention, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. Consequently,the overall number of publications and subsequent citationssoared, contributing to the inevitable high IF of journals dur-ing the pandemic, and the field of Emergency Medicine is notan exception (5). This claim is authenticated by the evidentrise and subsequent piecemeal decline in the JIFs of the ma-This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0).Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/index3 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2023; 11(1): e54jority of journals in the SCIE collection before and after thepandemic. As support to this assertion, one can note the on-going decrease in the proportion of articles about COVID-19in eminent, highly cited journals such as the Lancet and NewEngland Journal of Medicine, which further evince the im-pending drop of JIF for all journals in this field. Ultimately,we encourage all journals’ editorial teams around the globeto apprehend the imminent fall in their JIF and avert themisperception that they ought to adopt more strict criteriain assessing submissions to maintain their JIF. Instead, theyshould devise strategies such as opting for and investing intrending topics in the post-COVID era and motivating otherresearchers to submit their valuable non-COVID studies.DeclarationsAcknowledgmentsWe kindly appreciate Dr. Amir Mohammad Tolouei and Dr.Shayan Roshdi Dizaji for their valuable input and contribu-tions to drafting this editorial.Conflict of interestNone.FundingNone.References1. Garfield E. The history and meaning of the journal impactfactor. Jama. 2006;295(1):90-3.2. Web of Sciences. Journal Citation Reports 2023 [Availablefrom: https://jcr.clarivate.com/jcr/home.3. Myers PL, Rohrich RJ, Weinstein A, Chung KC. Be-yond the Impact Factor in Peer-Reviewed Literature:What Really Matters. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.2022;149(2):525-8.4. Daugherty A, Hegele RA, Lu HS, Mackman N, Rader DJ,Weber C. Web of Science’s Citation Median Metrics Over-come the Major Constraints of the Journal Impact Factor.Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2022;42(4):367-71.5. Delardas O, Giannos P. How COVID-19 Affected the Jour-nal Impact Factor of High Impact Medical Journals: Bib-liometric Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2022;24(12):e43089.This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0).Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/index

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