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Best Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine journals

121 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 31 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 25.7 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Intensive Care Medicine 22.2 98th Q1 SCIE No
3 Critical Care 16 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
4 Burns and Trauma 15.7 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
5 Clinical Nutrition 13.9 96th Q1 SCIE No
6 Advances in Wound Care 13 95th Q1 SCIE No
7 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 12.9 94th Q1 SCIE No
8 Chest 11.2 93th Q1 SCIE No
9 Critical Care Medicine 10.8 93th Q1 SCIE No
10 Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 10 92th Q1 SCIE No
11 Annals of Intensive Care 9.6 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
12 Journal of Intensive Care 8.8 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
13 Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 8 89th Q1 ESCI No
14 Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 7.9 88th Q1 SCIE No
15 Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal 7.8 88th Q1 Yes
16 European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care 7.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
17 Neurocritical Care 7.1 86th Q1 SCIE No
18 Journal of Critical Care 6.7 85th Q1 SCIE No
19 Current Opinion in Critical Care 6.6 84th Q1 SCIE No
20 Journal of Intensive Medicine 6.5 84th Q1 ESCI Yes
21 Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine 6.3 83th Q1 SCIE No
22 Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 5.9 82th Q1 SCIE No
23 Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 5.9 81th Q1 SCIE No
24 Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine 5.9 80th Q1 ESCI Yes
25 Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing 5.6 79th Q1 SCIE No
26 Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 5.5 79th Q1 SCIE No
27 Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care 5.4 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
28 Omega: Journal of Death and Dying 5.2 77th Q1 SSCI No
29 European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery 5.1 76th Q1 SCIE No
30 Critical Care Clinics 5 75th Q1 SCIE No
31 Critical Care Explorations 5 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
32 Shock 4.9 74th Q2 SCIE No
33 Heart and Lung 4.8 73th Q2 SCIE No
34 Burns 4.7 72th Q2 SCIE No
35 Renal Failure 4.5 71th Q2 SCIE Yes
36 Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma 4.5 70th Q2 ESCI No
37 Emergency Medicine Journal 4.4 70th Q2 SCIE No
38 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 4.4 69th Q2 SCIE Yes
39 HERD 4.2 68th Q2 SSCI No
40 Intensive Care Medicine Experimental 4.2 67th Q2 ESCI Yes
41 PLOS Global Public Health 4.1 66th Q2 ESCI Yes
42 Acute and Critical Care 4 65th Q2 ESCI Yes
43 Critical Care Research and Practice 3.8 65th Q2 ESCI Yes
44 Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy 3.7 64th Q2 ESCI Yes
45 Respiratory Care 3.7 63th Q2 SCIE No
46 Journal of the Intensive Care Society 3.6 62th Q2 ESCI No
47 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care 3.4 61th Q2 SCIE No
48 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine 3.4 61th Q2 ESCI No
49 Critical Care and Resuscitation 2.9 60th Q2 SCIE No
50 Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open 2.8 59th Q2 ESCI Yes
51 Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology 2.8 58th Q2 SCIE No
52 Medizinische Klinik - Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin 2.6 57th Q2 SCIE No
53 Critical Care Science 2.6 56th Q2 No
54 ATS Scholar 2.5 56th Q2 ESCI Yes
55 Anesthesiology Research and Practice 2.5 55th Q2 ESCI Yes
56 Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management 2.3 54th Q2 SCIE No
57 Medicina Intensiva 2.2 53th Q2 SCIE No
58 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2.1 52th Q2 SCIE No
59 European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care 2.1 52th Q2 Yes
60 African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine 2 51th Q2 ESCI Yes
61 CHEST Critical Care 2 50th Q2 ESCI Yes
62 Obshchaya Reanimatologiya 2 49th Q3 Yes
63 Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2 48th Q3 ESCI No
64 Southern African Journal of Critical Care 1.9 47th Q3 ESCI Yes
65 Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine 1.8 47th Q3 ESCI No
66 Annals of Critical Care 1.7 46th Q3 Yes
67 Emergency and Critical Care Medicine 1.6 45th Q3 ESCI Yes
68 JMIR XR and Spatial Computing 1.6 44th Q3 ESCI Yes
69 Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal 1.5 43th Q3 No
70 Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care 1.5 43th Q3 ESCI No
71 Tuberkuloz ve Toraks 1.5 42th Q3 ESCI No
72 International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science 1.5 41th Q3 No
73 Trauma (United Kingdom) 1.5 40th Q3 ESCI No
74 Burns Open 1.4 39th Q3 Yes
75 Revista Espanola de Anestesiologia y Reanimacion 1.3 38th Q3 ESCI No
76 Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 1.2 38th Q3 ESCI No
77 Signa Vitae 1.2 37th Q3 No
78 Russian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimatology /Anesteziologiya i Reanimatologiya 1.2 36th Q3 No
79 Neonatal Network 1.1 35th Q3 ESCI No
80 Acute Medicine 1.1 34th Q3 No
81 Journal of Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Acute Care 1.1 34th Q3 Yes
82 Egyptian Journal of Bronchology 1.1 33th Q3 ESCI Yes
83 Tanaffos 1.1 32th Q3 No
84 Frontiers in Anesthesiology 1.1 31th Q3 ESCI Yes
85 Journal of Acute Medicine 1.1 30th Q3 ESCI No
86 Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters 1 29th Q3 No
87 Journal of Anesthesia and Translational Medicine 1 29th Q3 No
88 Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS 1 28th Q3 SCIE No
89 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine 1 27th Q3 ESCI No
90 Case Reports in Critical Care 0.9 26th Q3 Yes
91 Journal of Cardiac Critical Care 0.9 25th Q3 No
92 Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine 0.9 25th Q3 No
93 Messenger of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation 0.9 24th Q4 Yes
94 Revista Cuidarte 0.8 23th Q4 ESCI Yes
95 Chinese Critical Care Medicine 0.8 22th Q4 No
96 Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology 0.8 21th Q4 Yes
97 Trauma Case Reports 0.8 20th Q4 Yes
98 Anasthesiologie und Intensivmedizin 0.7 19th Q4 SCIE No
99 Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases 0.6 18th Q4 No
100 Journal of Research in Clinical Medicine 0.6 17th Q4 Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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