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Journal of Critical Care Medicine

Sciendo · Poland · Est. 2015

ISSN2393-1817

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.

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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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.601

Total Worksi

405

Total Citationsi

2,449

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.96

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Critical Care Medicine; Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine; Emergency Medicine; Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine; Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

General Information

Country / RegionPoland

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2015

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications405

Publisher OrgDe Gruyter Open

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Sciendo

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2393-1817

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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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

162

2019

390

2020

308

2021

221

2022

148

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.

Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineQ2

Emergency MedicineQ2

Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineQ3

Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Critical Care Medicine

Scopus Categories

Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineCritical Care and Intensive Care MedicinePulmonary and Respiratory MedicineEmergency Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentRespiratory Support and MechanismsCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesIntensive Care Unit Cognitive DisordersNosocomial Infections in ICUMechanical Circulatory Support DevicesTrauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, ResuscitationCardiac Arrest and ResuscitationAcute Kidney Injury ResearchHemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Critical Care Medicine

Is Journal of Critical Care Medicine a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal of Critical Care Medicine: 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 Journal of Critical Care Medicine?

Journal of Critical Care Medicine 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 0.96.

Is Journal of Critical Care Medicine indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Critical Care Medicine is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Journal of Critical Care Medicine?