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Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0972-5229Verify ISSN ↗1998-359XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 48 / 122 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine is Q2 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 48 of 122), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.540, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 49.
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine is published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0972-5229 and its online ISSN is 1998-359X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 0.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #63 of 117 Scopus journals in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine published 450 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 496. 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 32 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (75.4%), Australia (5.2%) and Thailand (3.8%). 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. 8 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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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