Focus and Scope

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine is an international, Open Access, peer-reviewed, continuously published journal dedicated to improving the quality of care and increasing the knowledge in the field of emergency medicine by publishing high quality articles concerning emergency medicine and related disciplines. All accepted articles will be published immediately in order to increase its visibility and possibility of citation. The journal publishes articles on critical care, disaster and trauma management, environmental diseases, toxicology, pediatric emergency medicine, emergency medical services, emergency nursing, health policy and ethics, and other related topics. The journal supports the following types of articles:

• Original/Research article
• Systematic review/Meta-analysis
• Brief report
• Case-report
• Letter to the editor
• Photo quiz

Publication Frequency

All accepted articles will be published continuously from the beginning of 2017 in order to increase its visibility and possibility of citation. Compared to the conventional periodical publication format, in continuous publication, articles will receive a page number and are published continuously immediately after acceptance and proof editing. Therefore, the time interval between acceptance and publication is completely eliminated.

Open Access Policy

Since making research freely available supports a greater global exchange of knowledge, "Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine" provides immediate open access to its content by receiving an article processing charge from the author(s).These fees are used for maintaining a publication infrastructure, managing the journal, and processing the manuscripts (copyediting, layout editing, XML generation, etc.).

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Editorial Independence

The editor in chief makes the final decision regarding publication or rejection of the submitted articles without interference of its owner (Emergency Medicine Department of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences) or economic interests.

Plagiarism policy

When an author tries to present the work of someone else as his or her own, it is called plagiarism. In addition, when an author uses a considerable portion of his or her own previously published work in a new one without properly citing the reference, it is called a duplicate publication sometimes also referred to as self-plagiarism. This may range from publishing the same article in another journal to 'salami-slicing', which is data segmentation, to adding little new data to the previous article.

The editorial team/reviewers of "Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine" will check the submitted manuscripts for plagiarism twice (once after submission and once before publication) using available plagiarism detection software such as iThenticate. If suspected plagiarism is found in an article either before (by reviewers or editorial team) or after (by readers) publication, Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine will act according to COPE’s code of conduct and flowcharts. 

Article Withdrawal

Author(s) should note that they can withdraw their articles before being sent for peer review or when they are returned to them for making changes (minor or major revisions required), and not when they are under peer review. Unless that round of peer review (and not the total duration) for the article has exceeded the maximum duration of the peer review process stated on the website (6 weeks).

Articles can only be withdrawn before their acceptance, except in cases that contain errors or have been accidentally submitted twice. Occasionally, articles may represent infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like.

Articles that include errors, or are duplicates of or very similar to other published article(s) or are determined to violate the journals’ publishing ethics guidelines in the view of the editors, may be withdrawn.

For this purpose, a withdrawal letter must be emailed to the editorial office indicating the decision to withdraw and explaining the reason for withdrawal signed the corresponding author and the submitting individuals’ signature.

Preprints Policy

Preprints are papers that have been made publicly available by the author(s) prior to undergoing peer review. Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine adhere to the principles of COPE’s recommendations regarding best practices for preprints. Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine does not consider preprints as prior publication and manuscripts previously distributed as preprints will be considered for publication. The authors are also allowed to distribute their version of the manuscript (prepared before undergoing peer review) at any time during the review process. The authors should inform the journal if a preprint is available at any time before the publication of the submitted manuscript. Preprints may be cited in the submitted manuscripts and authors may share their preprints under creative commons licenses.

If the manuscript is accepted and published by the journal, the authors are required to update the preprint record and insert a link to the published article.

Authors should not assign copyright during the preprint process; authors should retain copyright in their work when posting to a preprint server.

Preferably, authors should only grant “no re-use” licenses to their preprints. However, we will consider for publication submissions that have previously been assigned CC-BY (-NC/-NC-ND) as preprints.

We encourage researchers and academics who reference preprints (like other peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources) to continue to cite these sources accurately as shown below:

• Chele D, Sirbu CA, Mitrică M, Toma M, Vasiliu O, Sirbu AM, et al.. Metformin’s Effects on Cognitive Function from Biovariance Perspective. Preprint at https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/69089ad0230411fc3bf5c9e423d0b936/download_pub  (2024).

If a preprint is assigned a DOI, we will assign a new DOI to the accepted article and can optionally link to the preprint.

Peer Review Policy

Submissions deemed suitable by the editors will be refereed by two reviewers within a maximum of six weeks, based on research reporting guidelines specified for each type of article (introduced in the manuscript preparation section). Reviewers' comments are then sent to the authors so that they can address them. All authors are asked to send their revised manuscripts or response to the comments within two weeks. Then the editor-in-chief will decide if the article needs to undergo further peer review (by the same reviewer or another reviewer, who can be a member of the editorial board) or it can be accepted for publication.

Reviewers' and authors' identities are kept confidential. The existence of a submitted manuscript is not revealed to anyone other than the reviewers and editorial staff. In case a member of the editorial board or staff submits a manuscript to the journal, it is dealt with in the same manner mentioned and the editor who submitted the manuscript does not have a say in the peer review process or the final decision made.

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission, every effort will make to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other (Double-blind peer review).