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Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery is 3.9 (Q1 in Emergency Medicine, Q1 in Critical Care Medicine; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 3.9 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Surgery
- Quartile
- Q1 in Emergency Medicine, Q1 in Critical Care Medicine
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- Abbreviations
- JTACS, J Trauma
- IF source
- bioxbio.com
Position within the field
Ranked 9 of the 35 journals in Emergency Medicine on this site (top 50%).
Emergency Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Internal and Emergency Medicine IF 4.1
- Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine IF 3.6
- Academic Emergency Medicine IF 3.2
- Journal of Emergency Nursing IF 3.2
- BMC Emergency Medicine IF 3.1
- American Journal of Emergency Medicine IF 2.9
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Not accepted. Single cases not allowed. Highly novel case series reviewed as original articles
- Article types
- Original Research / Review / Scoping Review / Systematic Review / Brief Report / Consensus Statement / Procedures and Techniques / Letter
- Word limit (original)
- 4,000 words
- Abstract
- 300 words (structured)
- Figures/tables
- 6 figures/tables
- References
- 50
- OA / APC
- hybrid / – (Wolters Kluwer price list. Color printing from US$750)
- Reporting guidelines
- CONSORT / PRISMA / PRISMA-ScR / STROBE
- Submission system
- Editorial Manager
About this value
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery is abbreviated JTACS / J Trauma. The Journal Impact Factor of Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 3.9. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Emergency Medicine.