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Acute and Critical Care is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine.
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ISSN 2586-6052Verify ISSN ↗2586-6060Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Care Nursing | 4 / 28 | 87th | Q1 |
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 42 / 122 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Acute and Critical Care is Q1 in Critical Care Nursing (rank 4 of 28) and Q2 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 42 of 122), by CiteScore 2025.
Acute and 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.650, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 23.
Acute and Critical Care is published by Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine. Its print ISSN is 2586-6052 and its online ISSN is 2586-6060.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acute and Critical Care has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 2.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 28 Scopus journals in Critical Care Nursing.
Acute and Critical Care published 79 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 96. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (45%), Japan (8.5%) and India (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (3.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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