Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2023; 11(1): e3 EDITORIAL Analysis of articles in the Journal of Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine in 2022 Somayeh Saghaei Dehkordi1∗, Mehrnoosh Yazdanbakhsh1 1. Journal Office, Emergency Ward, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Received: November 2022; Accepted: December 2022; Published online: 1 January 2023 Cite this article as: Saghaei Dehkordi S, Yazdanbakhsh M. Analysis of articles in the Journal of Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine in 2022. Arch Acad Emerg Med. 2023; 11(1): e3. https://doi.org/10.22037/aaem.v11i1.1882. In 2022, Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine (AAEM) has published 90 articles, all of which are indexed by SCO- PUS, Web of Sciences, PubMed and some other databases. They have been authored by more than four hundred re- searchers from various countries, including but not limited to the United States, Japan, Korea, Canada, Ghana, France, Norway, India, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Greece, Viet Nam and Iran. In this editorial, we intend to provide an overview of the journal’s flow in 2022, like we did in 2021 (1), so that we can identify our strengths and weaknesses and provide a brief report on our performance to readers and au- thors, which they might find useful in becoming more famil- iar with the journal. This article could help the authors who are interested in publishing with us to become more familiar with the journal’s aim and scope, and also the editorial prior- ities and preferences. The Scopus CiteScore for the journal improved from 4.5 in 2021 to 5.5 (as calculated in November 2022) (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101017909?origin=re sultslist). AAEM has been ranked as a Q1 journal in the field of emer- gency medicine in 2021 with an SJR of 0.651 based on the ranking published on scimagojr website (reported in 2022). https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?area=2700&ca tegory=2711. AAEM is indexed in the ICI Journals Master List database, has positively passed the evaluation process for 2021, and re- ceived an ICV of 125.25 (reported in 2022). Of all the submitted articles in 2022, 30.03% were published and 69.97% were rejected (61.27% of the submitted articles were desk rejected, 8.41% were declined after peer review, and rate of rejection due to other reasons was 0.29%) (Table ∗Corresponding Author: Somayeh Saghaei Dehkordi; Emergency Ward, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahrdari Avenue, Tajrish Square, Tehran, Iran. Email: ma.saghaei63@gmail.com, Tel: +982122721155, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0954-5202. 1). Average days to acceptance was 75 and average days to rejection was 11. All articles that passed the initial evaluation were reviewed by two or three referees and more than 300 reviewers helped us improve the quality of the articles published by the journal through reviewing the articles. We appreciate their contribu- tion and would like to thank them here. Out of the 90 published papers, 50 (55.55%) were original ar- ticles, 17 (18.9%) were review articles, 10 (11.11%) were case reports, 2 (2.22%) were Photo Quizzes, 5 (5.55%) were Brief Reports, and 6 (6.66%) were letters to editor (including one editorial). Despite the reduction of COVID-19 incidence, researches were still conducted on issues related to this disease, for example, checking the results of vaccination, vaccines & booster doses and summarizing the results. We also played our role by publishing relevant and useful articles that we be- lieved could help health care systems and present valuable findings from Iran to the world. 16 articles were original re- search papers (2-17) and 5 articles were review papers (18- 22). Among original articles, 13 articles were published on the topic of emergency medicine, which were aimed at planning and improving the quality of service delivery (6, 14, 23-33). There were 5 clinical trials among the published original ar- ticles, which dealt with issues such as treatment of acute migraine headache (34, 35), impact of 3% hypertonic saline on electrocardiogram changes due to tramadol poisoning (36), ethanol sclerotherapy in the management of ovarian en- dometrioma (37), and Aromatherapy (38). Among the case reports, 2 were on possible complications arising after treatments (39, 40) and 8 reported unusual pre- sentations of diseases (41-48). Two letters were published on Monkeypox (49, 50) and one letter was written in response to an article previously pub- lished in the journal (51). We believe that publishing articles in response to previous articles can help raise the awareness This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/index S. Saghaei Dehkordi et al. 2 Table 1: Comparison of articles in 2022 with total Articles 2022 Year (%) Total (%) Submissions accepted 30.03 41.89 Submissions declined 69.97 58.11 Desk-rejected 61.27 35.14 Declined (Post-review) 8.41 17.54 Other reasons 0.29 5.43 of our audience and help them be more careful when con- ducting research in the future, and we welcome such articles. The journal team strives to provide useful and valuable re- search results of doctors and researchers to be a resource for doctors and researchers who can improve the public health of all societies. Therefore, we would like to thank all the authors who trusted us and provided us with their valuable manuscripts throughout 2022. Our goal is to continue to im- prove and continue to publish quality articles from authors around the world, and everyone is invited to join us. References 1. Yazdanbakhsh M, Saghaei Dehkordi S. An Overview of Published Articles in Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine in 2021. Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2022;10(1):e18. 2. Zare Dehnavi A, Salehi M, Arab Ahmadi M, Asgar- doon MH, Ashrafi F, Ahmadinejad N, et al. Clinical, Laboratory and Imaging Characteristics of Hospital- ized COVID-19 Patients with Neurologic Involvement; a Cross-Sectional Study. Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2022;10(1):e10. 3. 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