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Journal of Critical Care — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Journal of Critical Care is 3.5 (quartile not confirmed; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 3.5 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine
- Quartile
- quartile not confirmed
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- Abbreviations
- JCC
- IF source
- bioxbio.com
Position within the field
Ranked 15 of the 39 journals in Critical Care Medicine on this site (top 50%).
Critical Care Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Australian Critical Care IF 3.6
- 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
- Critical Care and Resuscitation IF 3.2
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Not accepted. No case report submission category. Research Letter: up to 600 words, 5 references, 1 figure/table
- Article types
- Original Research / Review / Meta-analysis / Narrative Review / Research Letter / Clinical Challenges / Medical Ethics in Intensive Care Medicine / Education in Intensive Care Medicine / Editorial
- Abstract
- 250 words
- OA / APC
- – / –
About this value
Journal of Critical Care is abbreviated JCC. The Journal Impact Factor of Journal of Critical Care (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 3.5. 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.