Critical Care

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Critical Care, the top open access journal in critical care medicine, advances critically ill patient care with high-quality, evidence-based insights.

Prestigious editorial board featuring some of the world’s leading voices in the field.
Swift and rigorous peer review.
High visibility for your work through open access.

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Journal Impact Factor: 9.3 (2024)

5-year Journal Impact Factor: 10.4 (2024)

Submission to first decision (median): 5 days

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Critical Care in War and Disaster Areas

This Collection aims to explore the unique challenges, innovations, and lessons learned in the field of critical care during armed conflict and...

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Extracorporeal Blood Purification

Extracorporeal blood purification (EBP) plays a critical and evolving role in intensive care medicine, especially in the management of critically...

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Personalised Metabolic and Nutritional Management: From Guidelines to Tailored Interventions

The goal of this collection is to bring together thought leaders in metabolism, ICU nutrition, and rehabilitation to help define and promote a more...

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Plasma antioxidant capacity as a predictor of mortality in critically ill patients
Rosa Cobo-Zubia
Rosa Dolores Prieto-Utrera
Adrián García-Concejo
Research Open access 03 June 2026
Simulation study of frailty as a baseline confounder: the need to improve reporting intensive care trials
Christopher Dugan
Suzanne Weightman
Anders Aneman
Perspective Open access 02 June 2026
Predictive validity of daily sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA)-2 score for 30-day mortality
Johan Helleberg
Anna Sundelin
Johan Mårtensson
Research Open access 01 June 2026 Article: 280
Discomfort of noninvasive ventilation, high flow nasal cannula oxygen, and conventional oxygen implemented after extubation in non-COPD patients
Jean‑Jacques Rouby
Jean‑Pierre Quenot
the WIN IN WEAN Study Group
Brief Report Open access 31 May 2026
Electrical impedance tomography-derived flow index during spontaneous breathing trial stratifies the risk of reintubation within 48 h after extubation
Rui Zhang
Jing Xu
Jialin Liu
Research Open access 31 May 2026
Part of 1 collection:

Advances in Mechanical Ventilation

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Critical Care works closely with Critical Care: Sepsis and Severe Infection. If we feel that your manuscript is better suited to our companion journal, we will offer a transfer to this journal under a guaranteed out to review initiative. Critical Care: Sepsis and Severe Infection will send transferred manuscript out to review.

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Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
Abstracted and indexed in: ANVUR

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