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Intensive Care Medicine — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Intensive Care Medicine is 22.0 (Q1 in Critical Care Medicine; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 22.0 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine
- Quartile
- Q1 in Critical Care Medicine
- Publisher
- Springer
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- Abbreviations
- ICM, Intensive Care Med
- IF source
- link.springer.com
Position within the field
Ranked 1 of the 39 journals in Critical Care Medicine on this site (top 10%).
Critical Care Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine IF 21.7
- Critical Care IF 11.4
- Chest IF 9.8
- Critical Care Medicine IF 7.5
- Journal of Intensive Care IF 7.5
- Resuscitation IF 6.0
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Not accepted. Explicitly states case reports and brief reports are not accepted
- Article types
- Original Papers / Narrative/Scoping Reviews / Systematic Reviews / Guidelines / Images / Correspondence / Scientific Letters
- Word limit (original)
- 3,000 words
- Abstract
- 250 words (structured)
- Figures/tables
- Up to 5 figures+tables total
- References
- 30
- OA / APC
- hybrid / US$5,390 (£3,590 / US$5,390 / €4,290)
- Reporting guidelines
- EQUATOR required (CONSORT/PRISMA/AGREE II)
- Submission system
- Editorial Manager
- First decision
- 4 days (publisher-reported)
About this value
Intensive Care Medicine is abbreviated ICM / Intensive Care Med. The Journal Impact Factor of Intensive Care Medicine (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 22.0. 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.