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Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine 2023 CiteScore Released: 1.1

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (JECCM) has received its 2023 CiteScore: 1.1, ranking 70 out of 109 journals in the Emergency Medicine category.

Furthermore, we are delighted to highlight the remarkable achievements made by all AME journals in the CiteScore ranking.

Reviewer of the Month (2024)

In 2024, JECCM reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

2021 Annual Report of JECCM

Greetings from the Editorial Office of JECCM!

We are pleased to share the 2021 Annual Report of Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine here.

We would especially like to express our sincere gratitude to the editorial board members, guest editors, reviewers, authors and readers for all your support in this unprecedented year of 2021. And we wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2022!

Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (JECCM) is now a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Starting from July 2021, AME Publishing Company is formally recognized a publisher member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and over 60 AME-published journals become a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as part of AME’s commitment to best practice in scholarly publishing. Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (JECCM) is among the list of COPE membership.

AME entered an official partnership with Publons to enhance wide-ranging recognition for reviewers

AME Publishing Company entered an official partnership with Publons, a product of Clarivate Analytic Company (which owns Web of Science, EndNote, ScholarOne, among many others), as of April 2020. Around 60 AME journals’ peer review systems are now integrated seamlessly into the Publons platform (https://publons.com/about/home). The partnership was done to recognize our expert peer reviewers spontaneously for their review contribution.

Implementation of transparent peer review at Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (JECCM)

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to JECCM from March 19, 2020.

Application of the CARE Guideline as reporting standard in the Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

The Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine welcomes case reports which are supposed to report new observations of diseases, clinical findings or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practitioners in the fields of medicine.

For completeness and transparency for published case reports, the Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine will apply the CARE guidelines (1) as reporting standards for case reports starting from October 14, 2019.

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(30 March 2025)

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(30 March 2025)

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(30 March 2025)

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(30 December 2024)

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2024;

(30 December 2024)

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(30 September 2024)

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(30 September 2024)

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Review Article

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The Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal, aiming to improve the care of patients with emergency and critical illness by acquiring, discussing, distributing, and promoting evidence-based information relevant to emergency physicians and intensivists. Specific areas of interest include, but not limited to trauma, anaesthesiology, respiratory failure, sepsis, cardiovascular disease, healthcare-associated infections prevention, end-of-life care and etc.

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