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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	81
2	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	68
3	Critical Care	63
4	Chest	54
5	Intensive Care Medicine	53
6	Critical Care Medicine	38
7	Resuscitation	37
8	Annals of Intensive Care	34
9	Injury-International Journal of the Care of the Injured	29
-	Journal of Neurotrauma	29
11	Neurocritical Care	28
12	Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery	27
-	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	27
14	Burns	26
15	Journal of Critical Care	24
16	Journal of Intensive Care	22
17	Respiratory Care	20
-	Journal of Intensive Care Medicine	20
19	Australian Critical Care	19
20	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	18
-	Current Opinion in Critical Care	18
-	Shock	18
23	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	17
24	American Journal of Critical Care	16
-	Critical Care Clinics	16
-	Journal of Burn Care & Research	16
-	Minerva Anestesiologica	16
28	Medicina Intensiva	14
29	Critical Care Nurse	11
30	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	8
-	Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management	8
32	Journal of Trauma Nursing	6
33	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	5