5 November 2025
Journal of Clinical Medicine | 2025 Editorial Board Meeting of the Section “Emergency Medicine” Held on 16 September 2025


Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM, ISSN: 2077-0383) held its Editorial Board meeting for the Section “Emergency Medicine”, which was hosted by the Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Michael Christ. Currently, the “Emergency Medicine” Section has 25 Editorial Board members. Due to scheduling constraints, five members attended this meeting. During the session, the attending members conducted in-depth face-to-face discussions focusing on the Section’s current status and future development directions and put forward valuable insights to support the Section’s development. We are extremely grateful for the strong support of our members, and we warmly welcome all members to actively participate in future Editorial Board meetings. We also cordially invite members to visit our booth during academic conferences where both parties participate, to engage in discussions and interactions, thereby fostering academic collaboration and knowledge sharing within the emergency medicine field in the future.

Our journal’s announcement column regularly shares conference updates, and our official social media accounts also feature such information to keep you updated on the latest journal collaboration news. We remain open to suggestions for service improvement, warmly welcome scholars to recommend new conferences or provide advice and invite you to contact the JCM Editorial Office (jcm@mdpi.com).

The key highlights of this Editorial Board Meeting are recapitulated as follows:

  • The journal’s history and publication statistics;
  • The journal’s marketing activities, including conference booths, webinars, and collaborations with societies;
  • The publication status of the Emergency Medicine Section over the past three years, as well as the keywords of highly cited papers and the Special Issue project.

The following information was covered in the members’ discussion:

  • Define Core Objectives: Publishing high-quality papers;
  • Optimize Peer-Review Mechanisms: Propose multiple constructive improvement plans to further ensure the fairness and professionalism of the review process, providing a scientific basis for selecting high-quality research outcomes;
  • Strengthen Conference Promotion: Expand multi-channel publicity for academic conferences to enhance industry visibility and influence, building a broader platform for scholarly exchange;
  • Precise Planning of Special Issues: Developing themed Special Issues with unique features;
  • Harness Collective Wisdom for Sustainable Development: Advocate for all members to collaboratively build a dedicated online document for this academic sub-division, clarifying departmental objectives and editorial standards. This collective effort will provide robust support for the sub-division’s long-term development.

Attendee list (in no particular order):

  • Prof. Dr. Michael Christ (Section Editor-in-Chief), Emergency Department, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Switzerland;
  • Prof. Dr. Marcello Covino, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy;
  • Prof. Dr. Giorgio Costantino, U.O.C. Pronto Soccorso e Medicina D’Urgenza, IRCCS Fondazione Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy;
  • Dr. Andrea Fabbri, Emergency Department, AUSL della Romagna, Forli, Italy;
  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Oskar Spiel, 1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria; 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Wilheminenspital, Vienna, Austria.

To access more information about the Section, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/sections/Emergency_Med. In addition, you can find highly cited papers and hot-topic Special Issues in the “Emergency Medicine” Section via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/announcements/12876.

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