Journal rankings · indicator year 2005

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Subfield ranking · 2005

Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine journal rankings 2005

13 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Indicator year

Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine has 13 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2004 to 0.44, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.69. The top three are Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Clinics, and American Journal of Critical Care.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 score is computed on.

<1% of Medicine

Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

0.44+0.11 vs 2004

This subfieldAll 0.79World 1.00

Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

All fields: 15%

Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,270

Median positive listed APC: $3,270 among 7 journals. 6 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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13 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access

APC (list price)

Publisher country

Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ranking, 2005
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.	OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. OJR	Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.	Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.	Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.	List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.
1Critical Care MedicineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States	2.02Q1	4.99 0.74 up from 2004	2,025	1%	—
2Critical Care ClinicsElsevier BV · United States	1.34Q1	2.45 0.48 up from 2004	142	16%	$3,270
3American Journal of Critical CareAmerican Association of Critical-Care Nurses · United States	1.33Q1	2.44 0.81 up from 2004	189	14%	—
4Intensive and Critical Care NursingElsevier BV · United Kingdom	0.69Q1	1.04 0.35 down from 2004	140	1%	$4,140
5Journal of Intensive Care MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States	0.67Q2	1.69 1.34 up from 2004	123	3%	$4,400
6Nursing in Critical CareWiley · United Kingdom	0.56Q2	0.86 0.40 down from 2004	70	27%	$3,400
7Critical Care NurseAmerican Association of Critical-Care Nurses · United States	0.44Q2	0.75 0.14 up from 2004	178	5%	—
8Dimensions of Critical Care NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States	0.37Q3	0.54 0.05 up from 2004	93	1%	—
9Australian Critical CareElsevier BV · Australia	0.31Q3	0.48 0.10 down from 2004	76	12%	$2,900
10Journal of the Royal Army Medical CorpsBMJ · United Kingdom	0.21Q3	0.31 0.10 up from 2004	122	76%	—
11Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of UltrasoundGeorg Thieme Verlag · Germany	0.16Q4	0.20 0.29 down from 2004	544	1%	—
12Critical Care and ResuscitationElsevier BV · Australia	0.03Q4	0.13 0.02 up from 2004	161	98%	$2,300
13Enfermería IntensivaElsevier BV · Spain	0.03Q4	0.07 0.01 up from 2004	79	0%	$2,190

Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

1 additional Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine journal with metrics is unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals: 13
Window papers (baseline): 4,498 +22.6% from indicator year 2002
Median OJR: 0.44 +10.1% from indicator year 2002
Rising journals (2025): 2

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
Measure	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Ranked journals	11	11	11	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	15	18	20	22	22	22	23	23	23	24	24	24	23	22	23	24
Window papers (baseline)	2,942	3,470	3,668	3,969	4,082	4,498	5,020	5,653	6,220	6,989	7,690	8,621	9,358	10,351	11,314	12,264	12,908	13,431	14,285	15,111	16,106	17,673	19,203	20,118	19,814	19,916
Median OJR	0.42	0.405	0.403	0.31	0.34	0.44	0.52	0.47	0.657	0.698	0.663	0.54	0.58	0.64	0.80	0.699	0.726	0.74	0.734	0.77	0.93	0.86	0.814	0.815	0.68	0.76

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator: A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles: Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year): Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges: Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.