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Southern African Journal of Critical Care is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by South African Medical Association.
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ISSN 1562-8264Verify ISSN ↗2078-676XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Medical Association
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 64 / 122 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Southern African Journal of Critical Care is Q3 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 64 of 122), by CiteScore 2025.
Southern African Journal of Critical Care 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.296, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
Southern African Journal of Critical Care is published by South African Medical Association. Its print ISSN is 1562-8264 and its online ISSN is 2078-676X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Southern African Journal of Critical Care has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 117 Scopus journals in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.
Southern African Journal of Critical Care published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 24. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (79.7%), India (4%) and Ghana (3%). 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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