Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health (WestJEM)

Title	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health (WestJEM)
Class	Scholar Publisher
URL	http://westjem.org and http://westjem.com
Owner	Open-access journal supported by department and society subscriptions. WestJEM has no corporate structure and is not owned by a publishing company. No professionals associated with the journal at any level are compensated monetarily for their work.
Address	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 333 The City Boulevard West Suite 640, Orange CA 92868
Copyright and Licensing Policy	Authors retain copyright of their work in accordance with Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Anything published in WestJEM may be shared across any medium and adapted as long as attribution is given to the authors and journal as the source of the material.
Complaint email	editor@westjem.org
Complaint policy	There is no specific policy on complaints. Any inquiry sent to editor@westjem.org is responded to within 1 business day with a Senior Editor response varying on a case-by-case basis.
Publication charge link	https://aaem.execinc.com/edibo/WestJEMAPF
Publication charge policy	There is a fee of $300 for all accepted manuscripts. This fee is waived if one author on a paper is from an academic department with a WestJEM subscription. There is never a fee to submit. WestJEM is willing to waive the article processing fee for authors who come from low income or lower middle income countries on a case by case basis.
OASPA Compliant OA Journals	1
OA articles approx. number in 12 months	175 articles per year (excluding abstracts)
Peer review process	http://westjem.com/peer-review-policy
Peer review policy	WestJEM and CPC-EM adhere to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publications. All manuscripts submitted to the WestJEM and CPC-EM undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process, whereas the authors and reviewers are blinded from each other’s names or affiliations. Editors are not to disclose the confidentiality of reviewers or authors. Details of the review are not revealed to the authors until review is complete and an official decision on the manuscript is made. Editors, editorial staff and reviewers are not to discuss publicly any authors’ works until publication. Manuscripts sent for review are privileged information and are the sole property of the authors’ until publication, at which time the manuscript is under the creative common license. For more information, click here. All section editors assign at least 3-5 reviewers to whom the identities of the authors remain anonymous. Reviewers provide thorough feedback on the assigned article and make recommendations to the editors regarding the following: - Critique of the methodology - The impact and strength of the article - Significant limitations that need to be addressed - Are tables and figures relevant and suitable to the manuscript - Comments on the clarify, brevity and grammar The Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editors will register the final decision. The reviewer’s identity will remain confidential throughout the peer review process.