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Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), WoS ESCI. Published by Elsevier Beijing Ltd.
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ISSN 2097-1982Verify ISSN ↗2772-5588Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Beijing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$1,100 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 13 / 122 | 89th | Q1 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 18 / 165 | 89th | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 48 / 361 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine is Q1 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 13 of 122), Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 18 of 165) and Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 48 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.967, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,100 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine is published by Elsevier Beijing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2097-1982 and its online ISSN is 2772-5588.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 8.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 117 Scopus journals in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.
Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 37. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (63.9%), United States (18.3%) and United Kingdom (6.4%). 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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