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Critical Care Medicine — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Critical Care Medicine is 7.5 (Q1 in Critical Care Medicine; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 7.5 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine
- Quartile
- Q1 in Critical Care Medicine
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer (SCCM)
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- Abbreviations
- CCM, Crit Care Med
- IF source
- sccm.org
Position within the field
Ranked 5 of the 39 journals in Critical Care Medicine on this site (top 25%).
Critical Care Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Chest IF 9.8
- 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
- Intensive and Critical Care Nursing IF 5.1
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Not accepted. No longer accepted. Unusual cases go to Critical Care Explorations
- Article types
- Clinical Investigation / Laboratory Investigation / Systematic Review/Meta-Analysis / Research Report / Letter to the Editor
- Word limit (original)
- 3,000 words
- Abstract
- 300 words (structured)
- Figures/tables
- Up to 6 figures+tables total
- References
- 50
- OA / APC
- hybrid / – (Wolters Kluwer price list)
- Reporting guidelines
- CONSORT / STROBE / PRISMA / TRIPOD checklist required
- Submission system
- Editorial Manager
About this value
Critical Care Medicine is abbreviated CCM / Crit Care Med. The Journal Impact Factor of Critical Care Medicine (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 7.5. 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.