Critical Care (journal)
# Critical Care (journal)

Critical Care is an online open access peer-reviewed medical journal covering intensive-care medicine. The founding editor and the current editor-in-chief is Jean-Louis Vincent of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Critical Care was established in 1997 and is currently published by BioMed Central.

## Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

* Biological Abstracts
* CABI
* Citebase
* Chemical Abstracts Service
* CINAHL
* Current Contents: Clinical Medicine
* DOAJ
* Embase
* EmCare
* Global Health
* MEDLINE/PubMed
* Medscape
* Nutrition & Food Sciences Database
* Nutrition Abstracts & Reviews Series A: Human & Experimental
* OAIster
* Science Citation Index Expanded
* Tropical Diseases Bulletin
* SCImago
* SOCOLAR
* SCOPUS
* Web of Science
* Zetoc

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 9.097, ranking it 7 out of 82 journals in the category 'Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine'.

