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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	90
2	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	69
3	Critical Care	58
4	Intensive Care Medicine	55
5	Chest	54
6	Critical Care Medicine	40
7	Resuscitation	34
8	Annals of Intensive Care	33
9	Journal of Neurotrauma	31
10	Injury-International Journal of the Care of the Injured	28
11	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	27
12	Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery	26
-	Neurocritical Care	26
14	Burns	25
15	Journal of Critical Care	24
16	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	20
-	Current Opinion in Critical Care	20
-	Journal of Intensive Care	20
19	Journal of Intensive Care Medicine	19
-	Australian Critical Care	19
-	Respiratory Care	19
22	Shock	18
23	Minerva Anestesiologica	17
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	17
25	Critical Care Clinics	16
26	American Journal of Critical Care	15
-	Journal of Burn Care & Research	15
28	Medicina Intensiva	13
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