Critical Care Medicine: impact and ranking
Critical Care Medicine has a 2-year mean citedness of 1.31 in OpenAlex, which ranks #8,742 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 385. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.31 #8,742 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 385 #238 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.4M #234 of 18,122
- Works
- 57k 24.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Critical Care Medicine?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Critical Care Medicine: 1.31, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Critical Care Medicine #8,742 of 18,122 journals, in the top 48%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Critical Care Medicine?
OpenAlex gives Critical Care Medicine an h-index of 385: 385 of its papers have each been cited at least 385 times. That ranks #238 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Critical Care Medicine publish?
OpenAlex records 56,812 works in Critical Care Medicine from 1821 to 2026, cited 1,366,352 times in all, 24.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #234 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Critical Care Medicine
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0090-3493
- In OpenAlex
- 1821 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Critical Care Medicine as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.ccmjournal.com
- OpenAlex record
- S108732581
Journals ranked near Critical Care Medicine
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Critical Care Medicine on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8,216 | Tetrahedron Letters | 1.46 | 236 |
| 8,468 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 1.39 | 618 |
| 8,588 | Biological Psychiatry | 1.35 | 427 |
| 8,779 | Fertility and Sterility | 1.30 | 323 |
| 8,804 | Human Reproduction | 1.30 | 318 |
| 8,831 | Neurology | 1.29 | 525 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.