Annals of Emergency Medicine — Journal Profile & Submission Links

Annals of Emergency Medicine, a journal sponsored by the American College of Emergency Physicians, is the world’s leading peer-reviewed journal dedicated to improving the quality of care and advancing the science, practice and policy of emergency medicine. Annals is an international publication released monthly and continuously. A destination for high-quality, innovative, and clinically relevant research, reviews, and commentary, Annals seeks to improve emergency care, patient outcomes, and systems performance through knowledge creation and sharing that is coupled with thoughtful conversation. Annals publishes original research, reviews, clinical reports, research letters, opinions, structured human interest and community engagement pieces, and educational information related to the practice, teaching, and research of emergency medicine. Our peer review is high quality and prompt. We partner with lay press and social media outlets to optimize the spread of our published material. We encourage and share the best knowledge and dialogue that allows all we serve to be better. In addition to core emergency medicine topics, Annals publishes articles on out-of-hospital emergency medical services, pediatric emergency medicine, injury and disease prevention, public health and social emergency medicine, health policy and ethics, disaster management, toxicology, the growing role of artificial intelligence in care, and emergency department administration. We seek submissions broadly on any topic that intersects with emergency care, welcoming contributors from around the world and from all specialties. We are interested in innovative work that adds new insight, challenges convention, informs care, translates research into practice, and influences policy at local, national and international levels. Our editorial board is committed to scientific excellence, expeditious and rigorous peer review, and timely dissemination of knowledge that empowers clinicians, educators, researchers, and policymakers to improve emergency care delivery. Impact: Annals continues to be the dedicated emergency medicine journal most frequently cited by authors, and it has held that place for many years with the highest impact factor for an English-language journal focused solely on emergency medicine. Web readership: Annals had more than 3 million full-text downloads in 2024. International scope: Annals is a worldwide journal, with readers in 97 countries, submissions from 69 different countries, and more than half of the full text articles accessed by readers outside the U.S. Review speed: Annals gives quality feedback and makes decisions promptly, with time to first decision averaging 12 days and almost always within one month. We deliver excellence without undue delay, respecting our authors and our editorial team. High author satisfaction: Annals receives high marks in author satisfaction surveys, a feature noted for decades. In our last survey (2024), authors rated us as more prompt and responsive than other journals 86% of the time. Also, 80% of responding authors would recommend Annals to other researchers and/or submit again to Annals. See our author survey results here. Media exposure: Annals articles continue to be featured by the ACEP Public Relations office and generate considerable interest in the lay media (eg, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, WSJ, all major television networks, etc). This results in hundreds of annual episodes of coverage in print, television, and radio. Social media exposure is high by many metrics, and we have an editor dedicated to growing and evolving that message-sharing. Time from acceptance to online publication: About 1 month In 2009 Annals was chosen one of the 100 most influential scientific journals of the past 100 years by the Special Libraries Association, the largest and most respected library organization.