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Journal of Intensive Care — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Journal of Intensive Care is 7.5 (Q1 in Critical Care Medicine; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 7.5 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine
- Quartile
- Q1 in Critical Care Medicine
- Publisher
- BMC (JSICM)
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- link.springer.com
Position within the field
Ranked 6 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
- Critical Care Medicine 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 case report article type
- Article types
- Research / Review / Comment / Correspondence / Matters Arising
- Abstract
- 350 words (structured)
- OA / APC
- full OA / US$2,665 (£2,020 / US$2,665 / €2,235. Covered by the society for Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine members)
- Reporting guidelines
- CONSORT; trial registration required
- Submission system
- Springer Nature (SNAPP)
- First decision
- 3 days (publisher-reported)
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of Journal of Intensive Care (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.