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Best Critical Care Nursing journals

28 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Critical Care Nursing. The top 28 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 7 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Intensive and Critical Care Nursing 7.8 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
2 Australian Critical Care 4.9 94th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
3 Nursing in Critical Care 4.4 91th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
4 Acute and Critical Care 4 87th Q1 ESCI – Yes
5 American Journal of Critical Care 3.9 83th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Journal of the Intensive Care Society 3.6 80th Q1 ESCI – No
7 Critical Care Nurse 3.1 76th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
8 JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing 2.9 73th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
9 African Journal of Emergency Medicine 2.5 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
10 Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America 2.4 66th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
11 Chinese Journal of Nursing 2.4 62th Q2 – – No
12 Enfermeria Intensiva 2.1 58th Q2 ESCI – No
13 Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 1.9 55th Q2 ESCI – No
14 Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing 1.9 51th Q2 ESCI – No
15 AACN Advanced Critical Care 1.7 48th Q3 ESCI – No
16 Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing 1.7 44th Q3 SCIE, SSCI – No
17 Aquichan 1.2 41th Q3 – – Yes
18 Journal of trauma nursing : the official journal of the Society of Trauma Nurses 1.2 37th Q3 SCIE, SSCI – No
19 Neonatal Network 1.1 33th Q3 ESCI – No
20 Journal of Client-Centered Nursing Care 1 30th Q3 – – Yes
21 Journal of Nursing Effect 0.8 26th Q3 – – No
22 Nursing 0.8 23th Q4 – – No
23 Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series 'Medicine' 0.6 19th Q4 – – Yes
24 Jurnal Keperawatan Padjadjaran 0.6 16th Q4 – – Yes
25 Bali Journal of Anesthesiology 0.5 12th Q4 – – Yes
26 Acta Colombiana de Cuidado Intensivo 0.4 8th Q4 – – No
27 Archives of Anesthesiology and Critical Care 0.3 5th Q4 – – Yes
28 Neonatal Intensive Care 0.1 1th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Critical Care Nursing 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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