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Neurocritical Care — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Neurocritical Care is 4.2 (Q1 in Critical Care Medicine; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 4.2 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Neurology, Neurosurgery
- Quartile
- Q1 in Critical Care Medicine
- Publisher
- Springer
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- IF source
- link.springer.com
Position within the field
Ranked 12 of the 39 journals in Critical Care Medicine on this site (top 50%).
Critical Care Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine IF 4.9
- Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery IF 3.9
- Australian Critical Care IF 3.6
- Journal of Critical Care IF 3.5
- Minerva Anestesiologica IF 3.5
- Current Opinion in Critical Care IF 3.4
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Not accepted. Explicitly states case reports are not published
- Article types
- Original Work / Meta-analyses / Review / Brief Communication / Viewpoint / Neuro-Images / Trial Protocols / Letter
- Abstract
- 300 words (structured)
- OA / APC
- hybrid / US$4,890 (£3,090 / US$4,890 / €3,890)
- Reporting guidelines
- EQUATOR checklist required
- Submission system
- Editorial Manager
- First decision
- 8 days (publisher-reported)
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of Neurocritical Care (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 4.2. 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.