Swiss Emergency Medicine Research

About EMresearch.ch

EMresearch.ch (notfallforschung.ch) is a collection of Swiss Emergency Medicine research literature. The aim is to create a comprehensive database of scientific articles authored by academic emergency physicians from Switzerland.

EMresearch.ch makes the scientific work of emergency physicians in Switzerland visible. Its core is the work of emergency physicians in Swiss hospital emergency departments (adult and paediatric) and in pre-hospital emergency medicine, such as air rescue and ambulance services. Publications on emergency care by other specialties working in Switzerland are included as well, so that the whole of Swiss emergency medicine research can be explored.

How the collection is built

1. Two searches. Scopus and PubMed are searched in two ways: by affiliation (an author's affiliation names an emergency unit, e.g. emergency, urgences, Notfall, pronto soccorso, together with Switzerland or a Swiss city or hospital) and by topic (the title is explicitly about emergency care, e.g. emergency department, emergency medicine, pre-hospital, ambulance, paramedic, Notfallmedizin, urgences, and an author is affiliated in Switzerland).
2. Emergency physicians (author route). A publication is included if one individual author has a Swiss emergency affiliation on that paper: a hospital emergency department (adult or paediatric) or a pre-hospital service such as Rega or an ambulance service. Words spread across the affiliations of different co-authors do not count. Combined departments (e.g. internal and emergency medicine) count only for people individually confirmed as emergency physicians.
3. Other emergency providers (topic route). Publications by other specialties (e.g. radiology, anaesthesiology, intensive care, psychiatry, internal medicine, nursing) are included when the title is explicitly about emergency care and the first or last author works in Switzerland. Their authors are listed as emergency providers with their specialty.
4. Always excluded: international organisations (e.g. WHO), NGOs, veterinary medicine, and titles that only use "emergency" in a general sense (e.g. "hypertensive emergency").
5. Counting per paper. A publication counts for a person only with the affiliation they had on that paper. Papers published with another affiliation, for example before working in emergency medicine, are not counted for that person.
6. Specialty labels. Each person's specialty is suggested from their affiliations and checked manually; the decisions are kept in a register of Swiss emergency providers.
7. Three groups. EP first/last author: an emergency physician is first or last author. EP co-author: emergency physicians contributed as co-authors. Other providers: no emergency physician among the authors.
8. Institution. Each publication is assigned to the emergency department or service of its last author at the time of publication, if the last author is an emergency physician.
9. Senior researchers. Emergency physicians with at least four publications as last author with a Swiss emergency affiliation (single-author papers excluded).
10. Duplicates and updates. Each publication appears once, even with several emergency physicians among the authors. The collection is updated every one to two weeks with newly indexed publications; "New publications" are shown by their online (Epub) date.

Limitations

Publications not indexed in Scopus or PubMed (preprints, some congress abstracts) and affiliations recorded incorrectly by the databases may be missed. People are currently matched by surname and first initial, so rare homonyms can be merged. Papers by other specialties whose title does not name emergency care are not included, even if the study took place in an emergency department. The author specialty filter finds other providers only on papers included through the topic search; on the other papers only the emergency physicians are labelled, so for example a nurse co-authoring such a paper is not found by this filter. Corrections and missing publications are welcome (see contact below).

The project

This project was founded by Bruno Minotti and hosted by brunitika.ch with the aim of enhancing the visibility of Swiss academic emergency medicine. Emergency medicine should be recognized as a full specialty, which is not currently the case in Switzerland. This initiative highlights the ongoing efforts of emergency physicians to advance emergency care daily, grounded in high-quality research.

Contact

If you have any questions, corrections or would like to contribute to this project, please contact me at info@emresearch.ch.