About Emergency Medicine (Ukraine)

EMERGENCY MEDICINE — the Ukrainian Journal of Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology

EMERGENCY MEDICINE is the title under which a Ukrainian, open access, peer-reviewed medical journal is registered in the Journals World record carrying print ISSN 2224-0586 and electronic ISSN 2307-1230, published by Publishing House Zaslavsky in Kyiv, Ukraine. In international databases the same journal is usually disambiguated as Emergency Medicine (Ukraine), and in Ukrainian and Russian citation it is known by the title Meditsina Neotlozhnykh Sostoyaniy — Medicine of Emergency States. Those three labels, the two ISSNs, the publisher and the DOI prefix 10.22141/2224-0586 are one and the same journal. Naming it precisely matters more for this title than for most, because the English words emergency medicine are also the name of a specialty, of a famous BMJ journal, of an Elsevier journal and of dozens of unrelated publications. Nothing in this profile about impact, scope or publisher applies to those other titles, and nothing known about those other titles should be transferred to this one.

The journal covers the care of the acutely ill and injured patient, together with the anaesthesiology and intensive care that surround that care. Its own description, as reproduced in Scopus-derived listings, calls it a platinum open access, peer-reviewed journal covering issues of interest to specialists in emergency medicine and anaesthesiology, and gives as an example of its topical concerns the diagnosis and treatment of acute conditions. Its articles appear with DOIs such as 10.22141/2224-0586.20.6.2024.1757 — a form that encodes the print ISSN, the volume (20), the issue (6), the year (2024) and the article number — and its recent volumes show a journal actively publishing through Ukraine's full-scale war, including research on the injuries of civilian casualties of hostilities. The sections below set out its identity, history in outline, scope, publisher and open access model, indexing record, article types, and the checks a reader, author or librarian should make before citing, submitting to or paying anything in the name of this journal.

At a glance

• Registered title on this record: EMERGENCY MEDICINE
• Disambiguated title in international databases: Emergency Medicine (Ukraine)
• Original-language title: Meditsina Neotlozhnykh Sostoyaniy (Medicine of Emergency States)
• ISSN: 2224-0586 (print) and 2307-1230 (electronic), as given in the record and confirmed in article-level publisher metadata
• DOI prefix and pattern: 10.22141/2224-0586, followed by volume, issue, year and article number
• Publisher: Publishing House Zaslavsky, Kyiv, Ukraine — an independent academic publisher of more than ten open access medical journals
• Country: Ukraine
• Fields: emergency medicine; anaesthesiology and pain medicine; intensive and critical care in acute settings
• Access: open access; the publisher states that all its journals provide immediate, free and unrestricted online access to full text, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, and that some of its journals operate on a diamond model with no fees for authors or readers while others apply a processing charge — the applicable model for a given journal is stated on that journal's own website
• Indexing record verified in sources: Scopus coverage listed as 2019–2024 in SCImago-derived data, with best quartile Q4 in emergency medicine and in anaesthesiology and pain medicine (2024)
• Abbreviation used in citations: Emerg Med (Ukr.); also cited as Emerg. Med. and by its original-language short title

Identity first: separating this journal from every other Emergency Medicine

Three other publications cause most of the confusion around this title, and a careful reader should be able to state the difference in one sentence each. The Emergency Medicine Journal is a BMJ journal from the United Kingdom, with entirely different ISSNs, publishing monthly for a largely British and international emergency medicine readership. The Journal of Emergency Medicine is an Elsevier journal associated with the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, again with different ISSNs and a United States editorial base. Emergency Medicine International is a separate open access title with its own publisher and ISSNs. The journal profiled here is none of those: it is Ukrainian, it is published by Zaslavsky, its ISSNs are 2224-0586 and 2307-1230, its DOIs begin 10.22141/2224-0586, and its content is rooted in Ukrainian emergency and anaesthetic practice, written substantially by Ukrainian authors for a readership that begins in Ukraine and extends to anyone working on acute care in comparable, including conflict-affected, settings. If a database, a CV or a sales page mixes metrics from the BMJ or Elsevier titles into this journal's record — or the reverse — the ISSN check exposes the error immediately.

There is also a duplicate-record caution inside Journals World itself, which this profile flags openly below in its verification section: a second Journals World record titled Emergency Medicine (Ukraine) carries the same two ISSNs. That record is a thin duplicate of this journal, not a second journal, and readers should treat the ISSN pair, not the title wording, as the identity.

The publisher: Publishing House Zaslavsky

Publishing House Zaslavsky describes itself, on its own site, as an independent academic publisher based in Ukraine, specialising in peer-reviewed medical journals produced to international publishing standards, working in cooperation with universities, professional medical societies, research institutions and other non-profit organisations, and publishing more than ten open access scientific journals across medicine and healthcare. Its journal list, as published by the house, places Emergency Medicine alongside Child's Health, the International Journal of Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, the International Neurological Journal, Trauma, the Archive of Ukrainian Ophthalmology and its successor titles, Oral and General Health and a hypertension and cardiovascular diseases journal. That neighbourhood is informative: this is a house built around Ukrainian clinical specialties, each with its own journal, editorial community and society connections, rather than a generalist commercial publisher that acquired a title.

The house's published policies apply across its journals and give an author a concrete picture of the framework in which this journal operates. Its ethics policy commits authors, reviewers, editors and the publisher to internationally recognised principles, and names the Committee on Publication Ethics, the World Association of Medical Editors and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors as the sources of its editorial recommendations. Authors must submit original work that has not been published previously in any language and is not under consideration elsewhere; must cite sources appropriately; must disclose conflicts of interest and acknowledge funding; and must ensure that every listed author made a substantial contribution. Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification and image manipulation are expressly not tolerated. Editors and reviewers are to judge manuscripts on scientific merit, originality, methodological quality and relevance, confidentially and without discrimination. Allegations of misconduct are investigated under COPE guidance, and confirmed serious breaches can lead to rejection or retraction, with retracted articles remaining in the record clearly marked — all standard, verifiable commitments that a submitting author can hold the journal to. The publisher's registered address, as published by the house, is in Kyiv, and its archiving policy states that published materials are archived in the National Library's Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine collection and preserved through LOCKSS.

Scope: acute care, anaesthesia and the medicine of emergency states

The original-language title is the best guide to scope. Medicine of emergency states is broader than the Anglo-American emergency department specialty: it embraces the whole pathway of a patient in a life-threatening or potentially life-threatening condition, from prehospital care through resuscitation, anaesthesia for emergency intervention, intensive therapy and pain management. The journal's Scopus subject categorisation captures the same breadth with two categories only — Emergency Medicine, and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine — and the published articles fill those categories with recognisable content. Recent and representative articles include work on the age structure of musculoskeletal injuries in civilian casualties of hostilities, published in volume 20, issue 6 (2024) at pages 464 to 469; work on invasive treatment of chronic vertebral pain, comparing diclofenac and gabapentin, epidural glucocorticoids and repeated epidural neurolysis, published in volume 17 (2021) at pages 64 to 66; studies of fluid responsiveness as part of haemodynamic monitoring in the operating room and intensive care unit, in volume 20, issue 6 (2024) at pages 475 to 481; and a long run of articles on metabolic acidosis, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, local anaesthetic toxicity and intensive therapy that recur across the journal's volumes. Reviews, original clinical studies and case-based contributions all appear; the journal is a clinical journal, addressed to practising specialists, and its evidence is predominantly the clinical study, the observational series and the reasoned review, rather than laboratory science at a distance from the bedside.

Two features of that scope deserve emphasis for an international reader. The first is the journal's wartime record. Ukrainian emergency medicine since 2022 has operated under mass-casualty conditions, and this journal has published primary clinical work from that reality, including the multi-part reporting of injuries in civilian casualties of hostilities by Guryev and colleagues in 2024. Such work has a documentary value beyond its immediate clinical findings: it is the peer-reviewed record, written by the treating system itself, of how emergency and trauma care performed under fire. The second feature is language and audience. The journal publishes Ukrainian clinical scholarship in a form that international databases index in English — with English titles and abstracts attached to its DOI metadata — which makes Ukrainian acute-care research discoverable to a reader who could not find it in a purely national bibliography. An author outside Ukraine considering the journal should nonetheless check the journal's own current author guidance for the languages of submission and the article types currently accepted, because those operational details belong to the journal's own site and are not publicly disclosed in the third-party sources consulted here.

Open access model and what it costs

The publisher's open access statement, which applies to this journal, is unusually explicit and is worth stating in its own terms. All journals published by the house provide immediate, free and unrestricted online access to the full text of published articles. All publications are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, which permits use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium with appropriate credit. Authors retain copyright, grant the journal first publication and the publisher a non-exclusive licence, and are encouraged, after publication, to deposit the published version in institutional repositories, on personal websites and on other non-commercial platforms with full citation. On cost, the house states a house-level rule with a journal-level application: the funding model may vary between journals, some operating under a diamond open access model with no publication fees for either authors or readers, and others applying an article processing charge to cover editorial processing, peer review and publication, with the applicable model and charge stated on the official website of each individual journal. Secondary listings describe this journal specifically as platinum open access, a term used for the no-fee model. Because the publisher itself directs readers to the individual journal's website for the applicable model, this profile's advice is to confirm the current position on the journal's own site before submitting, and to treat any invoice or fee demand that does not come through that official channel as a reason to stop and verify — a precaution that applies across open access medicine, where title impersonation is a known problem.

Indexing, metrics and how to read them

The verified indexing picture for this journal is modest and should be reported exactly as verified, without inflation. SCImago-derived data list the journal in Scopus with coverage from 2019 to 2024, categorised in Emergency Medicine (Q4) and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (Q4), with a best quartile of Q4 in 2024, an SJR of 0.109 in the cited data year, an h-index in single figures — listed as 4 in the SCImago-derived table, while the thin duplicate Journals World record states 5, a small discrepancy that itself shows why a metric should always be quoted with its source and year — and an impact score around 0.14. The journal has no Journal Citation Reports impact factor claimed in any source consulted for this profile, and none should be attributed to it. What those numbers mean in plain terms is that this is a nationally rooted, Scopus-covered specialist journal whose citation footprint is small by design and by circumstance: it publishes regionally focused clinical work, much of it in a language and a health system that international citation indexes undercount, during a war that disrupted its authors' institutions. A Ukrainian author deciding where to publish should weigh Scopus coverage, speed of reaching Ukrainian clinical readers, open access without a reader paywall and fit with the journal's acute-care scope — the factors its actual community uses — rather than a metric it does not possess. An evaluator reading a publication record should likewise credit the journal as a peer-reviewed, Scopus-listed Ukrainian specialty journal, and neither inflate it into an international high-impact title nor dismiss it as unindexed, because both descriptions would be false.

Reading and citing the journal

Citations to this journal appear in several surface forms: EMERGENCY MEDICINE in the publisher's own article metadata, Emergency Medicine (Ukraine) in Scopus and SCImago contexts, Emerg Med or Meditsina Neotlozhnykh Sostoyaniy in reference lists quoting the original-language title, and the DOI form, which is the most reliable of all — for example, Guryev and colleagues' 2024 article is cited as Emerg Med. 2024;20(6):464–469, DOI 10.22141/2224-0586.20.6.2024.1757. A reader resolving that DOI reaches the article on the publisher's platform; a reader searching the ISSN pair reaches the journal; a reader searching the English title alone reaches a crowd of unrelated journals, which is why the first section of this profile exists. The journal's volumes run by year — volume 17 corresponds to 2021 and volume 20 to 2024 in the articles cited above, a one-volume-per-year pattern in that period — and issues are numbered within the volume, with at least six issues in volume 20. Back content is preserved under the publisher's stated archiving arrangements in the Ukrainian national periodicals collection and LOCKSS.

For authors: a practical pre-submission checklist

First, fit: the manuscript should concern emergency medicine, anaesthesiology, pain medicine or intensive therapy of acute conditions, and should be written for clinicians. Second, originality and ethics: the house's policies require unpublished, original work, full citation, conflict and funding disclosure, and genuine contributorship by every author — and for clinical studies, authors should be ready to show the ethical approvals their institution and Ukrainian practice require, even where a checklist item is not spelled out in the sources quoted here. Third, language and format: follow the journal's own current instructions for authors on its official website, which the publisher identifies as the place where detailed manuscript preparation, submission procedure and publication conditions for each journal are given. Fourth, cost: confirm the journal's current open access funding model on that same site before submission, and keep a record of what was stated. Fifth, identity: submit only through the journal's official channel linked from the publisher's site, which lists Emergency Medicine among its journals and links to the journal's own website; a lookalike submission portal is the single most common way authors lose money and manuscripts in open access medicine.

Frequently asked questions

Is this the same as the Emergency Medicine Journal or the Journal of Emergency Medicine? No. Those are a BMJ title and an Elsevier title respectively, with different publishers, countries and ISSNs. This journal is the Ukrainian Zaslavsky title, ISSN 2224-0586 and 2307-1230.

What is the journal's original title? Meditsina Neotlozhnykh Sostoyaniy, Medicine of Emergency States, under which its articles are also cited.

Is it open access? Yes. The publisher states that all its journals give immediate, free, unrestricted full-text access under CC BY 4.0, with authors retaining copyright.

Does it charge authors? The publisher states that models vary by journal, some charging no fees at all and others applying a processing charge, with the applicable model stated on the individual journal's website; secondary listings describe this journal as platinum, that is no-fee, open access. Confirm the current position on the journal's own site before submitting.

Is it indexed in Scopus? SCImago-derived data list Scopus coverage from 2019 to 2024, Q4 in both its categories. Indexing status changes, so check Scopus by ISSN for a current answer.

Does it have an impact factor? No Journal Citation Reports impact factor was verified for this journal in the sources consulted. Do not accept a figure for it from an aggregator site.

Duplicate record flag and sources

Duplicate flag (from this worker's own direct REST verification): Journals World post 34002, slug emergency-medicine-ukraine, title Emergency Medicine (Ukraine), carries the same ISSN pair as this record — 2307-1230 and 2224-0586 — and is therefore a second record for the same journal as post 354538. Post 34002 is thin template content (254 words on direct fetch) and carries no depth profile, so this post was profiled as instructed and the pair is reported here for the merge queue under the standing duplicate rule: the depth content in this profile belongs, by identity, to the journal both records represent.

Sources: the Journals World records for posts 354538 and 34002 fetched directly (ISSN pairs, publisher and template metrics); the Publishing House Zaslavsky official site (publisher description, journal list including Emergency Medicine with its link to the journal's own website, ethics, open access, licensing, archiving and author policies, Kyiv address); article-level publisher metadata for the journal in OpenAIRE and in citing journals (ISSN pair, DOI pattern, volume and page details for volume 17 (2021) and volume 20 (2024) articles, including the 2024 civilian-casualty injury series); and SCImago-derived listings via Resurchify (Scopus coverage 2019–2024, Q4 categories, SJR and h-index, publisher and country). Facts not verified from such sources — including a current editorial board list, a decision timetable and an acceptance rate — are not stated in this profile.