Critical Care Medicine: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	91
2	Critical Care	58
3	Intensive Care Medicine	55
4	Chest	54
5	Critical Care Medicine	37
6	Resuscitation	35
7	Annals of Intensive Care	33
8	Journal of Neurotrauma	30
9	Injury-International Journal of the Care of the Injured	28
10	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	27
11	Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery	26
-	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	26
-	Neurocritical Care	26
14	Burns	25
15	Journal of Critical Care	24
16	Journal of Intensive Care	21
17	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	20
-	Journal of Intensive Care Medicine	20
19	Current Opinion in Critical Care	19
-	Shock	19
-	Respiratory Care	19
22	Minerva Anestesiologica	18
-	Australian Critical Care	18
24	Critical Care Clinics	16
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	16
26	American Journal of Critical Care	15
-	Journal of Burn Care & Research	15
28	Medicina Intensiva	14
29	Critical Care Nurse	11
30	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	8
-	Journal of Trauma Nursing	8
-	Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management	8
33	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	5