EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Top Research Topics at Emergency Medicine Australasia?

The journal generally zeroes in on subjects such as Emergency department, Emergency medicine, Medical emergency, Anesthesia and Surgery. The concepts on Emergency department presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Intensive care medicine, Confidence interval, Pediatrics, Prospective cohort study and Triage. The Intensive care medicine study tackling the subject of Intensive care is the focus of the journal.

Retrospective cohort study and Family medicine are some topics wherein Emergency medicine research discussed in the journal have an impact. The Medical emergency study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of MEDLINE.

• Emergency department (22.45%)
• Emergency medicine (22.00%)
• Medical emergency (18.00%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Redesigning emergency department patient flows: Application of Lean Thinking to health care (228 citations)
• Comparison of a verbal numeric rating scale with the visual analogue scale for the measurement of acute pain (200 citations)
• EVALUATION OF ANTIDOTES FOR POISONING BY ORGANOPHOSPHORUS PESTICIDES (173 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Emergency Medicine Australasia:

The published papers focus largely on the fields of Emergency department, Emergency medicine, Medical emergency, MEDLINE and Anesthesia. While Emergency department is the key highlight in the journal papers, thet also covered some subjects on Retrospective cohort study and Injury prevention and Injury Severity Score. While the journal articles focused on Anesthesia, they were also able to explore topics like Adverse effect and Surgery.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

• Internal medicine
• Surgery
• Disease

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Emergency Medicine Australasia mostly deals with topics like Emergency department, Emergency medicine, Medical emergency, Internal medicine and Confidence interval. The studies on Emergency department discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Family medicine, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Mental health, Prospective cohort study and Triage. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a major topic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) research.

Topics in Emergency medicine were tackled in line with various other fields like Incidence (epidemiology) and Retrospective cohort study. Emergency Medicine Australasia connects research in Internal medicine with the related topic of Cardiology. It addresses concerns in the field of Confidence interval by exploring it in line with topics in Odds ratio which intersect with Epidemiology subjects.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Mental health presentations to Christchurch Hospital Emergency Department during COVID-19 lockdown. (8 citations)
• Impact of national lockdown towards emergency department visits and admission rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand: A hospital-based study. (8 citations)
• Impact of COVID-19 social restrictions on trauma presentations in South Australia (7 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Emergency Medicine Australasia (based on the number of publications) are:

• Anne-Maree Kelly (105 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Peter Cameron (104 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
• David Taylor (90 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
• Daniel M Fatovich (73 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
• Franz E Babl (72 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Emergency Medicine Australasia (based on the number of publications) are:

• Monash University (323 papers) published 43 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
• University of Melbourne (244 papers) published 32 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
• University of Queensland (200 papers) published 26 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
• University of Western Australia (193 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
• Alfred Hospital (156 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 28.39% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 56.39% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.25% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.98% of all publications and 19.38% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

• Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
• Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
• Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
• Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
• Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Pathways for Research Graduates

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