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AACN Advanced Critical Care

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses · United States · Est. 1990

ISSN1559-7776

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.348

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.458

Total Worksi

2,036

Total Citationsi

13,961

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.82

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Nursing; Emergency Medicine; Critical Care Nursing; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1990

Annual Volume~ 53 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications2,036

Publisher OrgLippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1559-7776

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

503

2019

447

2020

583

2021

224

2022

224

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Emergency MedicineQ2

Critical Care NursingQ3

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Nursing

Scopus Categories

Critical Care NursingMedicine (miscellaneous)Emergency Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Intensive Care Unit Cognitive DisordersFamily and Patient Care in Intensive Care UnitsCardiac Arrest and ResuscitationPalliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesRespiratory Support and MechanismsEthics in medical practiceSepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMechanical Circulatory Support DevicesHealth Sciences Research and EducationCardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

Frequently asked questions about AACN Advanced Critical Care

Is AACN Advanced Critical Care a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for AACN Advanced Critical Care: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of AACN Advanced Critical Care?

AACN Advanced Critical Care is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.82.

Is AACN Advanced Critical Care indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

AACN Advanced Critical Care is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of AACN Advanced Critical Care?