The ''Annals of Emergency Medicine'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering all aspects of
emergency medicine care. It is the official journal of the
American College of Emergency Physicians
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is a professional organization of emergency medicine physicians in the United States.
The organization was founded August 16, 1968, by eight physicians in Lansing, Michigan. ACEP established ...
(ACEP) and is published on their behalf by
Elsevier
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. The
editor-in-chief
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is Michael L. Callaham (
University of California, San Francisco
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). It was established in 1972 as the ''Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians'' and obtained its current title in 1980.
Abstracting and indexing
This journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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CINAHL
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Ella Crandall, Mildred Grandbois, and Mollie ...
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Scopus
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Science Citation Index
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Current Contents
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History
''Cur ...
/Clinical Medicine
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Index Medicus
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MEDLINE
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PubMed
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According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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of 5.721, ranking it first out of 32 journals in the category "Emergency Medicine".
In 2009, the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division of the
Special Libraries Association
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History
The S ...
elected it to their list of the 100 most influential biomedical journals of the past century.
See also
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List of medical journals
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References
External links
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Publications established in 1972
Elsevier academic journals
Emergency medicine journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies