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Critical Care and Resuscitation — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Critical Care and Resuscitation is 3.2 (quartile not confirmed; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 3.2 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine
- Quartile
- quartile not confirmed
- Publisher
- Elsevier (CICM)
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- bioxbio.com
Position within the field
Ranked 20 of the 39 journals in Critical Care Medicine on this site (bottom 50%).
Critical Care Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Journal of Critical Care IF 3.5
- Minerva Anestesiologica IF 3.5
- Current Opinion in Critical Care IF 3.4
- Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition IF 3.3
- Journal of Intensive Medicine IF 3.3
- Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine IF 3.2
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Accepted. Unstructured abstract up to 100 words summarizing the case and why it is noteworthy
- Article types
- Original Article / Survey / Structured Review / Meta-analysis / Review / Case Report / Point of View / Editorial / Pro-con Debate / Letter to the Editor
- Word limit (original)
- 2,700 words
- Abstract
- 250 words (structured)
- OA / APC
- – / –
- Submission system
- Elsevier
- First decision
- 42 days (publisher-reported)
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of Critical Care and Resuscitation (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 3.2. 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.