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Emergency and Critical Care Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 2097-0617Verify ISSN ↗2693-860XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine | 54 / 111 | 51st | Q2 |
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 67 / 122 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
Emergency and Critical Care Medicine is Q2 in Emergency Medicine (rank 54 of 111) and Q3 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 67 of 122), by CiteScore 2025.
Emergency 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.293, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Emergency and Critical Care Medicine is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 2097-0617 and its online ISSN is 2693-860X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Emergency and Critical Care Medicine has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 109 Scopus journals in Emergency Medicine.
Emergency and Critical Care Medicine published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 46. 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 88 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (53.4%), United States (7.7%) and Italy (6.8%). 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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