Acute Medicine

Aims & Scope

These are usually commissioned by the editorial team in accordance with a cycle running over several years.

Authors wishing to submit a review relevant to Acute Medicine are advised to contact the editor before writing this.

Unsolicited review articles received for consideration may be included if the subject matter is considered of interest to the readership, provided the topic has not already been covered in a recent edition.

Review articles are usually 3000-5000 words and may include tables, pictures and other figures as required for the text.

Include 3 or 4 ‘key points’ summarising the main teaching messages.

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Metrics & Ranking

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23695

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.161

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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• Medline
• Embase

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The increased mortality associated with a weekend emergency admission is due to increased illness severity and altered case-mix

  Citation: 63

  Authors: Olga, Elizabeth, Kathleen, Deirdre, Bernard

• Predicting outcomes in emergency medical admissions – role of laboratory data and co-morbidity

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Esther, Elizabeth, Kathleen, Deirdre, Bernard

• The Ability of Frailty to Predict Outcomes in Older People Attending an Acute Medical Unit

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Simon, Teresa

• What is the evidence base for ambulatory care for acute medical illness?

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Daniel, C, TNE, JST, Sarbjit

• Triage Into the Community for COVID-19 (TICC-19) Patients Pathway – Service evaluation of the virtual monitoring of patients with COVID pneumonia

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Joseph, David, Afsaneh, Dionne, Adam, Xiaoxuan, Nicholas, Roumeisa, Weizi, Andrew P.

• Ambulatory Outpatient Management of patients with low risk febrile neutropaenia

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Timothy, Mark, Jean

• A UK wide survey on attitudes to point of care ultrasound training amongst clinicians working on the Acute Medical Unit

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Nicholas, Ramprasad, Philip, Jenny, Andrew

• Does admission via an Acute Medical Unit influence hospital mortality? 12 years’ experience in a large Dublin Hospital

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Roisin, Declan, Deirdre, Richard, Seán, Bernard

• Complications of Emergency Refeeding in Anorexia Nervosa: Case series and review

  Citation: 19

  Authors: G J, K, F, T, M A, A N

• Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit 2021 (SAMBA21): assessing national performance of acute medicine services

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Catherine, Thomas, Tim, Mark, Chris, Adrian, Ragit, Daniel

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