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Shock — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Shock is 2.7 (quartile not confirmed; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 2.7 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Critical Care Medicine
- Quartile
- quartile not confirmed
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- IF source
- bioxbio.com
Position within the field
Ranked 25 of the 39 journals in Critical Care Medicine on this site (bottom 50%).
Critical Care Medicine journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Critical Care Explorations IF 2.9
- Nursing in Critical Care IF 2.8
- Nutrition in Clinical Practice IF 2.7
- American Journal of Critical Care IF 2.6
- Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing IF 2.6
- Burns IF 2.6
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Not accepted. No case report article type
- Article types
- Research articles / Review articles / Commentaries / Brief Reports / Letters
- Abstract
- 250 words
- References
- No limit (usually 50-60)
- OA / APC
- hybrid / – (Submission fee US$100 (waived for members) + page charge US$55 per page)
- Submission system
- Editorial Manager
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of Shock (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 2.7. 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.