Journal Metrics

The Top 10 Critical Care Medicine Journals to Publish your Research in 2024

Choosing the right journal to publish your critical care research involves considering multiple factors beyond journal metrics, such as cost, open access, and turnaround time. Learn more about the top 10 Critical Care journals in 2024.

After hours of hard work, your manuscript is finally ready to be published. As a researcher, you have to make the difficult decision of which journal to submit your manuscript too. So what are the top 10 critical care medicine journals in 2024?

What is journal impact factor?

It is important to note that journal metrics are only one factor that dictates what journal to choose: cost, open access status, turn-around-time, and journal focus are other important considerations. With that said, Journal Impact Factor is commonly used to measure the impact and importance of a journal in its field. This score is calculated based on the number of citations for an average article in the past 2 years.

What are some other journal metrics to consider?

Journal Impact Factor is not the only metric to determine a journal’s influence. The Immediacy Index helps determine the immediate impact of articles in the year of its publication. The Normalized Eigenfactor Score allows journals in a discipline to be compared based on their relative influence in the field. Similarly, the Article Influence Score uses the Eigenfactor Score to determine the average influence of a journal’s article in the first 5 years after publication.

Here are 10 of the top critical care medicine journals with a variety of metrics listed.

Top 10 Critical Care Journals to Publish your Research in 2024

Top 10 Critical Care Journals in 2024

Journal Name	Impact Factor	Immediacy Index	Normalized Eigenfactor	Article Influence Score	Average Publishing Time Frame	Publishing Options
Lancet Respiratory Medicine	38.7	11.9	11.8815	15.325	- Peer-reviewed within 3-5 days - 10 weeks from acceptance to publication	Hybrid
Intensive Care Medicine	27.1	6.6	8.21677	8.69	- 3 days from submission to first decision	Hybrid
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (The Blue Journal)	19.3	7.2	14.10909	7.577	- 5 weeks for first decision	Hybrid
CHEST	9.5	2.8	8.91003	3.376	- 6 days for first decision - 62 days from submission to acceptance	Hybrid
Critical Care	8.8	2.8	8.36397	3.152	- 4 days for first decision - 51 days from submission to acceptance	Open access
Critical Care Medicine	7.7	2.8	7.27671	2.733	N/A	Hybrid
Resuscitation	6.5	2.1	4.88222	1.889	- 6 days for first decision - 51 days from submission to publication	Hybrid
Annals of Intensive Care	5.7	0.9	2.27566	1.957	- 7 days for first decision - 91 days from submission to acceptance	Open access
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	4	2.6	2.03737	1.156	- 8 to 10 weeks for initial editorial review	Hybrid
Journal of Neurotrauma	3.9	0.8	3.11112	1.808	- 25 days for first decision	Hybrid

*Data from Journal Citation Reports 2023

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