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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	89
2	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	67
3	Critical Care	60
4	Chest	54
5	Intensive Care Medicine	52
6	Critical Care Medicine	37
-	Resuscitation	37
8	Annals of Intensive Care	33
9	Journal of Neurotrauma	30
10	Injury-International Journal of the Care of the Injured	28
11	Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery	27
12	Burns	26
-	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	26
-	Neurocritical Care	26
15	Journal of Critical Care	24
16	Journal of Intensive Care	21
17	Journal of Intensive Care Medicine	20
18	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	19
-	Australian Critical Care	19
-	Respiratory Care	19
21	Current Opinion in Critical Care	18
22	Minerva Anestesiologica	17
-	Shock	17
24	American Journal of Critical Care	16
-	Journal of Burn Care & Research	16
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	16
27	Critical Care Clinics	15
28	Medicina Intensiva	14
29	Critical Care Nurse	10
30	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	8
-	Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management	8
32	Journal of Trauma Nursing	7
33	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	5