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Journal of Critical Care Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI. Published by University of Medicine and Pharmacy Targu Mures.
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ISSN 2393-1809Verify ISSN ↗2393-1817Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Medicine and Pharmacy Targu Mures
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine | 49 / 111 | 56th | Q2 |
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 63 / 122 | 48th | Q3 |
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 76 / 147 | 48th | Q3 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 106 / 165 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Journal of Critical Care Medicine is Q2 in Emergency Medicine (rank 49 of 111), Q3 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 63 of 122) and Q3 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 76 of 147), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.348, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
Journal of Critical Care Medicine is published by University of Medicine and Pharmacy Targu Mures. Its print ISSN is 2393-1809 and its online ISSN is 2393-1817.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Critical Care Medicine has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 1.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 109 Scopus journals in Emergency Medicine.
Journal of Critical Care Medicine published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 51. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Romania (19.3%), United States (13%) and Japan (6%).
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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