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Chest — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Chest is 9.8 (Q1 in Critical Care Medicine, Q1 in Respiratory System; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 9.8 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory System
- Quartile
- Q1 in Critical Care Medicine, Q1 in Respiratory System
- Publisher
- Elsevier (ACCP)
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- Abbreviations
- CHEST
- IF source
- bioxbio.com
Position within the field
Ranked 4 of the 39 journals in Critical Care Medicine on this site (top 25%).
Critical Care Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Critical Care IF 11.4
- Critical Care Medicine IF 7.5
- Journal of Intensive Care IF 7.5
- Resuscitation IF 6.0
- Annals of Intensive Care IF 5.5
- Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine IF 5.4
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Limited (short formats such as Image or Letter only, or by exception). As Novel Reports (online only): 750 words, 150-word abstract, 10 references, 2 figures/tables. Series of 4 or more cases handled as original research
- Article types
- Original Research / Research Letter / Guidelines / Narrative Review / Systematic Review / Novel Reports / Chest Imaging & Pathology for Clinicians / Correspondence
- Word limit (original)
- 3,200 words
- Abstract
- 300 words (structured)
- References
- 50
- OA / APC
- hybrid / US$4,160 (US$4,160 (all article types))
- Reporting guidelines
- CONSORT / PRISMA required; STROBE etc. recommended
- Submission system
- Editorial Manager
About this value
Chest is abbreviated CHEST. The Journal Impact Factor of Chest (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 9.8. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Critical Care Medicine.