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Respiratory Care is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0020-1324Verify ISSN ↗1943-3654Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 45 / 122 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 77 / 165 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Respiratory Care is Q2 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 45 of 122) and Q2 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 77 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Respiratory 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.644, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 116.
Respiratory Care is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0020-1324 and its online ISSN is 1943-3654.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Respiratory Care has an h-index of 132 and a 2-year mean of 1.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 117 Scopus journals in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.
Respiratory Care published 232 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 517. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (37.2%), Japan (7.6%) and Canada (7.2%).
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 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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