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Critical Care — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Critical Care is 11.4 (Q1 in Critical Care Medicine; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 11.4 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine
- Quartile
- Q1 in Critical Care Medicine
- Publisher
- BMC
- Open access
- fully open access
- Abbreviations
- Crit Care
- IF source
- link.springer.com
Position within the field
Ranked 3 of the 39 journals in Critical Care Medicine on this site (top 10%).
Critical Care Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Chest IF 9.8
- 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
- Not accepted. No case report article type
- Article types
- Research / Review / Comment / Debate / Correspondence / Brief Report / Perspective / Guidelines
- Abstract
- 350 words (structured)
- OA / APC
- full OA / US$4,390 (£3,090 / US$4,390 / €3,590)
- Reporting guidelines
- CONSORT / STROBE / PRISMA
- Submission system
- Springer Nature (SNAPP)
- First decision
- 5 days (publisher-reported)
About this value
Critical Care is abbreviated Crit Care. The Journal Impact Factor of Critical Care (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 11.4. 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.