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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	80
2	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	71
3	Critical Care	66
4	Intensive Care Medicine	55
5	Chest	49
6	Critical Care Medicine	39
7	Resuscitation	35
8	Injury-International Journal of the Care of the Injured	31
9	Journal of Neurotrauma	30
10	Annals of Intensive Care	29
11	Neurocritical Care	28
-	Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery	28
13	Burns	26
-	Journal of Critical Care	26
15	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	25
16	Journal of Intensive Care	24
17	Australian Critical Care	22
18	Shock	20
-	Journal of Intensive Care Medicine	20
20	Respiratory Care	18
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	18
-	Critical Care Clinics	18
-	Journal of Burn Care & Research	18
-	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	18
25	Minerva Anestesiologica	17
-	Current Opinion in Critical Care	17
27	Medicina Intensiva	14
28	American Journal of Critical Care	13
-	Critical Care Nurse	13
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