title: Critical Care (journal)
text: # 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'.
  
  