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AACN Advanced Critical Care is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. Published by American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
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ISSN 1559-7768Verify ISSN ↗1559-7776Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine | 51 / 111 | 54th | Q2 |
| Critical Care Nursing | 15 / 28 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
AACN Advanced Critical Care is Q2 in Emergency Medicine (rank 51 of 111) and Q3 in Critical Care Nursing (rank 15 of 28), by CiteScore 2025.
AACN Advanced Critical Care is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.348, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 52.
AACN Advanced Critical Care is published by American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Its print ISSN is 1559-7768 and its online ISSN is 1559-7776.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
AACN Advanced Critical Care has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 1.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 109 Scopus journals in Emergency Medicine.
AACN Advanced Critical Care published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 59. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (95.8%), Jordan (1.1%) and Canada (1.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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