Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

*Western Journal of Emergency Medicine*
	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine; home page
Discipline	Emergency medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Mark I. Langdorf
Publication details
Former name(s)	The California Journal of Emergency Medicine
History	2000–present
Publisher	eScholarship (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution License
Impact factor	1.807 (2020)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	West. J. Emerg. Med.
Indexing;
ISSN	1936-900X (print); 1936-9018 (web);
Links
	[westjem.com Journal homepage];

The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health (WestJEM, https://westjem.com) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed, fully open access medical journal.

WestJEM focuses on how the systems and delivery of emergency care affect health, health disparities, and health outcomes in communities and populations worldwide, including the impact of social conditions on the composition of patients seeking care in emergency departments. It is published by the University of California’s California Digital Library through eScholarship, on behalf of the University of California, Irvine Department of Emergency Medicine.

The current editor-in-chief is Mark I. Langdorf, MD, MHPE,^[1] Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine in the University California, Irvine School of Medicine.^[2]

The current Managing Associate Editor is Shahram Lotfipour,^[1] MD Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Public Health at the University California, Irvine School of Medicine.^[2]

WestJEM is the official journal of California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP) and the California chapter division of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). WestJEM actively supports scholarly publishing from junior faculty by devoting additional space, consideration and editorial support. The journal is supported by some 80 academic departments of emergency medicine in the US.

Journal Distribution

WestJEM Circulation: 19,000 electronic, 2,800 print

Pageviews and downloads: 250,000 per month/3 million per year

Abstracting and indexing

Clarivate Analytics’ (formerly Thomson Reuters’) Science Citation Index Expanded^[3]
Scopus
Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
PubMed Central
Europe PubMed Central Full-Text
Directory of Open Access Journals Abstracts
Google Scholar Full-Text
HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme
Embase (Elsevier)
EBSCO/CINAHL

Impact Factor and Journal Ranking

Clarivate Analytics (previously Thomson Reuters) 2-year Impact Factor: 1.807
- 14/31 in category worldwide, and 6th among general emergency medicine journals
Scimago Journal and Country Rank Index (SJR 2020): 16/87 emergency medicine journals (cites/doc; 2 years) and 6^th among general emergency medicine journals
Scopus CiteScore (2020): 2.6, which places 22/75 emergency medicine journals, and 9^th among general emergency medicine journals worldwide
Altmetric social media ranking 6/35 emergency medicine journals

Affiliated Journals

Yearly Special Issue on Education Research and Practice, sponsored by the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) and the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine

Guest Editors Jeff Love, MD, Georgetown University and Douglas Ander, MD, Emory University.

Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (CPC-EM)

Case reports, Case series, and Images
Indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central
Editor in Chief: Rick McPheeters, DO, Kern Medical
https://westjem.com/cpc_em

Mediterranean Journal of Emergency Medicine and Acute Care

Editor in Chief: Amin A. Kazzi, MD, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
https://www.medjem.me/

References

^ ^a ^b "Editors and Editorial Board". The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
^ ^a ^b "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". www.faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
^ company, Web of Science Group, a Clarivate. "Web of Science Master Journal List". Web of Science Group, a Clarivate company. Retrieved 2020-08-12. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

Official website

[:0-1] "Editors and Editorial Board". The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. Retrieved 2020-08-12.

[:1-2] "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". www.faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-25.

[:2-3] y, Web of Science Group, a Clarivate. "Web of Science Master Journal List". Web of Science Group, a Clarivate company. Retrieved 2020-08-12. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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