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Critical Care is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1364-8535Verify ISSN ↗1466-609XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 3 / 122 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.
Critical Care is Q1 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 3 of 122), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Care 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 16, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.002, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 242.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,190 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.
Critical Care is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1364-8535 and its online ISSN is 1466-609X.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Critical Care has an h-index of 289 and a 2-year mean of 7.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 117 Scopus journals in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.
Critical Care published 570 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 712. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (28%), United States (8.1%) and Germany (6.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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