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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	94
2	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	70
3	Critical Care	57
4	Intensive Care Medicine	55
5	Chest	53
6	Critical Care Medicine	41
7	Resuscitation	39
8	Journal of Neurotrauma	34
-	Annals of Intensive Care	34
10	Injury-International Journal of the Care of the Injured	29
11	Neurocritical Care	26
-	Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery	26
13	Journal of Critical Care	25
-	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	25
15	Burns	24
16	Current Opinion in Critical Care	22
17	Respiratory Care	20
-	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	20
19	Journal of Intensive Care Medicine	19
20	Critical Care Clinics	18
-	Shock	18
22	Australian Critical Care	17
-	Journal of Intensive Care	17
24	Minerva Anestesiologica	16
25	American Journal of Critical Care	15
26	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	14
27	Journal of Burn Care & Research	13
28	Medicina Intensiva	12
29	Critical Care Nurse	11
30	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	8
31	Journal of Trauma Nursing	7
-	Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management	7
33	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	4