title: Critical Care Medicine (journal)
text: # Critical Care Medicine (journal)
  
  Critical Care Medicine is a peer-reviewed monthly medical journal in the field of intensive care medicine. The journal was established in 1973 with William C. Shoemaker as the founding editor. It is the official publication of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The journal's editor-in-chief is Timothy G. Buchman.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * Academic Search
  * CAB Abstracts
  * Chemical Abstracts
  * CINAHL
  * Current Contents - Clinical Medicine
  * Embase
  * Global Health
  * Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
  * Science Citation Index Expanded
  * Scopus
  * Tropical Diseases Bulletin
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 7.598, ranking it 5th out of 82 journals in the category "'Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine".
  
  ## Editors
  
  * William C. Shoemaker, 1972-1991
  * Bart Chernow, 1991-1997
  * Joseph E. Parrillo, 1997-2014
  * Timothy G. Buchman, 2015–present
  