title: Journal of Critical Care
text: # Journal of Critical Care
  
  The Journal of Critical Care is a peer-reviewed medical journal which covers intensive care medicine. It is the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and the Society for Complex Acute Illness. The editor-in-chief is Jan Bakker. It is published every two months by Elsevier.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * Academic OneFile
  * Chemical Abstracts
  * CINAHL
  * Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
  * Embase
  * Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
  * Science Citation Index/Science Citation Index Expanded
  * Scopus
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 2.191, ranking it 17th out of 27 journals in the category "Critical Care Medicine".
  
  ## History
  
  The journal was established in 1986. The first editor was David R. Dantzker and the original publisher was Grune & Stratton. In 2007 the Journal of Critical Care absorbed Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain which was previously titled Seminars in Anesthesia.
  
  