Open access publishing: a girder in the success of the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

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The Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (SJTREM) has entered its third year as an open access international scientific on-line journal. The 2-year goal presented at the Editorial Board meeting in Copenhagen 2008 is achieved, with SJTREM now being indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Medline, Scopus and Google Scholar, and, presently accepted for tracking by Thompson Reuters (ISI). Submissions are steadily increasing, and the acceptance rate is per date approximately 40%. The average time from submission to first decision is 22 days, and more than 150 scientific papers have been published. One paper has been nominated for Faculty of 1000 post publication peer-review [1], the number of SJTREM papers cited in other journals are increasing, and all published papers reach a significant number of readers, far above what was achievable for the earlier paper version of SJTREM. …