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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	85
2	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	72
3	Critical Care	66
4	Intensive Care Medicine	56
5	Chest	49
6	Critical Care Medicine	38
7	Resuscitation	35
8	Injury-International Journal of the Care of the Injured	30
9	Journal of Neurotrauma	29
10	Annals of Intensive Care	28
-	Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery	28
12	Neurocritical Care	27
13	Burns	26
-	Journal of Critical Care	26
-	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	26
16	Journal of Intensive Care	23
17	Australian Critical Care	22
18	Journal of Intensive Care Medicine	21
19	Shock	20
20	Respiratory Care	19
21	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	18
-	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	18
-	Minerva Anestesiologica	18
24	Critical Care Clinics	17
-	Journal of Burn Care & Research	17
-	Current Opinion in Critical Care	17
27	American Journal of Critical Care	14
-	Medicina Intensiva	14
29	Critical Care Nurse	12
30	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	9
31	Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management	8
32	Journal of Trauma Nursing	6
33	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	5