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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 25.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Thoracic Society.
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ISSN 1073-449XVerify ISSN ↗1535-4970Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Thoracic Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 1 / 122 | 99th | Q1 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 4 / 165 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1991), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 25.7.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is Q1 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 1 of 122) and Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 4 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 25.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.423, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 450.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is published by American Thoracic Society. Its print ISSN is 1073-449X and its online ISSN is 1535-4970.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has an h-index of 511 and a 2-year mean of 0.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 25.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 117 Scopus journals in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine published 7,475 papers in 2025. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (36.4%), China (20.8%) and Canada (4.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 24 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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