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Journal rankings · indicator year 2010

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Subfield ranking · 2010

Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine journal rankings 2010

15 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine has 15 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.30. The top three are Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Clinics, and Journal of Intensive Care Medicine.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 score is computed on.

15
<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.

0.66-0.03 vs 2009
This subfieldAll 0.93World 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.

0%
All fields: 20%
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.

$3,335
Median positive listed APC: $3,335 among 8 journals. 7 have no known price. All fields: $3,490.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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15 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)
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ranking, 2010

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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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.

The line is the journal’s OJR from 2001 to 2010.

Compare
1Critical Care MedicineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.98Q14.34 0.07 up from 20092,56310%—
2Critical Care ClinicsElsevier BV · United States
1.79Q13.34 0.15 up from 200915521%$3,270
3Journal of Intensive Care MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States
1.60Q12.73 0.22 up from 200913911%$4,400
4American Journal of Critical CareAmerican Association of Critical-Care Nurses · United States
1.30Q11.82 0.20 down from 200927312%—
5Intensive and Critical Care NursingElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.09Q21.92 0.42 up from 20091257%$4,140
6Nursing in Critical CareWiley · United Kingdom
1.08Q21.67 0.39 up from 20091276%$3,400
7Critical Care NurseAmerican Association of Critical-Care Nurses · United States
0.98Q21.47 0.07 up from 20091354%—
8Critical Care and ResuscitationElsevier BV · Australia
0.66Q21.42 0.50 up from 2009186100%$2,300
9Dimensions of Critical Care NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.64Q30.72 0.06 up from 20091181%—
10Australian Critical CareElsevier BV · Australia
0.58Q30.94 0.11 up from 20097326%$2,900
0.53Q30.84 0.08 up from 20091960%—
0.19Q30.29 0.29 up from 2009500%—
13Enfermería IntensivaElsevier BV · Spain
0.11Q40.17 0.06 down from 2009760%$2,190
0.10Q40.17 0.03 up from 20092,6943%—
15Journal of the Intensive Care SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.09Q40.26 0.02 up from 200912550%$3,900

Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

5 additional Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
15
Window papers (baseline)
7,690 +36.0% from indicator year 2007
Median OJR
0.663 +40.4% from indicator year 2007
Rising journals (2025)
2

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals1111111213131414141415182022222223232324242423222324
Window papers (baseline)2,9423,4703,6683,9694,0824,4985,0205,6536,2206,9897,6908,6219,35810,35111,31412,26412,90813,43114,28515,11116,10617,67319,20320,11819,81419,916
Median OJR0.420.4050.4030.310.340.440.520.470.6570.6980.6630.540.580.640.800.6990.7260.740.7340.770.930.860.8140.8150.680.76

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.