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Critical Care Explorations — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Critical Care Explorations is 2.9 (quartile not confirmed; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 2.9 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine
- Quartile
- quartile not confirmed
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer (SCCM)
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- sccm.org
Position within the field
Ranked 22 of the 39 journals in Critical Care Medicine on this site (bottom 50%).
Critical Care Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Intensive Care Medicine Experimental IF 2.9
- Nursing in Critical Care IF 2.8
- Shock IF 2.7
- Nutrition in Clinical Practice IF 2.7
- American Journal of Critical Care IF 2.6
- Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing IF 2.6
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Accepted. 800-1,500 words, 150-word abstract, up to 3 figures/tables, CARE checklist, consent required. APC US$1,050
- Article types
- Original Clinical Report / Observational/Cohort Study / Narrative Review / Systematic Review / Case Report / Research Report / Quality Improvement Report / Study Protocol / Letter
- Word limit (original)
- 3,500 words
- Abstract
- 300 words (structured)
- Figures/tables
- Up to 6 figures/tables
- OA / APC
- full OA / US$2,150 (Original articles US$2,150; case reports etc. US$950-1,050 (2026))
- Reporting guidelines
- CONSORT / STROBE / PRISMA / TRIPOD / CARE
- Submission system
- Editorial Manager
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of Critical Care Explorations (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 2.9. 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.