- This year marks the 10th anniversary of Journal of Intensive Care. To commemorate this milestone, we have published an Editorial by the former Editor-in-Chief, Professor Hiroshi Morisaki.
- JINC endorses BMC's editorial policy to encourage posting of preprints of primary research manuscripts on preprint servers of the authors’ choice, authors’ or institutional websites. Further details can be found in submission guidelines for Research and Review.
- Journal of Intensive Care introduced a new editorial policy to require advance registration of all clinical trials. Check Instructions to Authors for details before making your new submission.
What's new
[Featured Research]
Association between red blood cell distribution width and 30-day mortality in critically ill septic patients: a propensity score-matched study
Sepsis is the leading cause of death worldwide, and a number of biomarkers have been developed for early mortality risk stratification. Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is a routinely available hematological data and has been found to be associated with mortality in a number of diseases; therefore, the authors aim to address the association between RDW and mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis.
[Featured Research]
Impacts of three inspiratory muscle training programs on inspiratory muscles strength and endurance among intubated and mechanically ventilated patients with difficult weaning: a multicentre randomised controlled trial
Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) is well-established as a safe option for combating inspiratory muscles weakness in the intensive care setting. It could improve inspiratory muscle strength and decrease weaning duration but a lack of knowledge on the optimal training regimen raise to inconsistent results. We made the hypothesis that an innovative mixed intensity program for both endurance and strength improvement could be more effective. We conducted a multicentre randomised controlled parallel trial comparing the impacts of three IMT protocols (low, high, and mixed intensity) on inspiratory muscle strength and endurance among difficult-to-wean patients.
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Effects of normal saline versus lactated Ringer’s solution on organ function and inflammatory responses to heatstroke in rats
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Monte Carlo simulations of cefepime in children receiving continuous kidney replacement therapy support continuous infusions for target attainment
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Recovery of consciousness after acute brain injury: a narrative review
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Author’s response to the letter “Japanese clinical practice guidelines for rehabilitation in critically ill patients 2023 (J-ReCIP 2023)”
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D-dimer as a biomarker for disease severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients: a case control study
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Diagnosis and treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) according to four DIC guidelines
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Lymphopenia in severe coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): systematic review and meta-analysis
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Oxygen administration for postoperative surgical patients: a narrative review
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Procalcitonin: a promising diagnostic marker for sepsis and antibiotic therapy
[Featured collection]
Cardiogenic shock
This thematic series aims to update the knowledge crucial for intensive care management of cardiogenic shock to improve patient prognosis, covering topics from organ dysfunction and venous stasis to the use of temporary mechanical circulatory support devices and multidisciplinary shock protocols.
JSICM official guidelines
Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine offers collections of guidelines on the diagnosis and management of a range of conditions that are related to intensive care medicine.
ARDS Clinical Practice Guideline 2021 (2022)
The Japanese Clinical Practice Guideline for acute kidney injury 2016 (2018)
Aims and scope
Journal of Intensive Care is an open access journal encompassing all aspects of intensive care medicine, such as intensive and critical care, trauma and surgical intensive care, pediatric intensive care, acute and emergency medicine, perioperative medicine, resuscitation, infection control and organ dysfunction. In addition, the journal encourages submissions considering the different cultural aspects of intensive care practice.
About the Editor
- See full list of Editorial Board.
- go to About the Editors page for detailed information of EIC and deputy Editors.
Society affiliation and support of APC
Journal of Intensive Care is the official journal of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM).
In 2024, the Society sponsors 40% of the Journal’s APC for the articles so that the author is charged only 60%.
Authors are able to request this support during the post-acceptance process. At the time of submission please 'agree to pay APC list price' to proceed and request for discount afterwards.
See below for further information
-changes in manuscript submission (in Japanese)
-post acceptance process (to request discount)
For questions, please contact membership Administrator team by email; office@jsicm.org.
Thematic Series Collections
See list of all article collections
Cardiogenic Shock
This thematic series aims to update the knowledge crucial for intensive care management of cardiogenic shock to improve patient prognosis, covering topics from organ dysfunction and venous stasis to the use of temporary mechanical circulatory support devices and multidisciplinary shock protocols.
Palliative Care Activity in Critical Care
This thematic issue aims to respond to substantial need for palliative care for the patients who require critical care, with state-of-the-art information.
COVID-19 & related researches
Collection of articles on research of COVID-19 and releated topics published in the Journal of Intensive Care.
Oxygen administration for critically ill patients
This thematic series offers four narrative reviews offering latest information on Oxigen administration for critically ill patients, aiming to help readers determine the optimal target and methods.
Nutrition in Intensive care
This thematic series focuses on basic nutritional therapy with selection of papers reviewing appropriate evaluation of calorie requirement, enteral integrity and enteral tolerance in “Critical Care Nutrition”.
Neurocritical Care revisited
The second Thematic Series on Neurocritical Care puts together selection of reviews providing different aspects and latest insight into Neurocritical Care.
Cardiovascular intensive care
This thematic series presents 5 review articles providing latest understandings on the management of patients with severe CVD.
Current overview in pediatric critical care
In this thematic series, the authors review the current management of pediatric sepsis, pediatric organ transplantation, pediatric cardiac surgery and more.
Trauma-induced coagulopathy and critical bleeding
In this thematic series, the authors examine the pathophysiology of trauma-induced coagulopathy and discuss the novel therapeutic strategies for the management of patients with severe trauma.
Point-of-care ultrasound
In this thematic series, the authors review various clinical studies on point-of-care ultrasound, which were carried out based on the ideas of “extraction”, “creation” and “integration”.
Organ dysfunction in sepsis
In this thematic series, the authors review the pathophysiology of organ dysfunction in sepsis. The role of two main pathomechanisms of organ dysfunction, DIC and endothelial cell dysfunction, are also discussed.
Neurocritical care
In this thematic series, the role of monitoring is highlighted to guide the treatment and therapeutic intervention tailored for the pathophysiologic degree of brain injury.
Fluid management
In this thematic series, the principal and practical matters underlying fluid therapy are highlighted to allow intensivists around the world to better understand and manage such primary and consistent intervention as fluid therapy in critically ill patients.
Pro-Con debate articles
Journal of Intensive Care publish set of articles that discuss given topic from opposing standpoints.
Topic 1:
Acute glycemic control in diabetics. How sweet is optimal?
Pro: Sweeter is better in diabetes
Con: Just as sweet as in nondiabetic is better
Topic 2:
Aggressive fluid management in the critically ill patients.
Pro: fluids should be aggressively managed in critically ill patients
Con: “aggressive” may lead to “excessive”
Topic 3:
Is Anti-coagulation therapy effective for septic DIC?
Pro: A question is “what are the optimal targets for anticoagulant therapies?”
Con: Should we treat sepsis-induced DIC with anticoagulants?
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 3.8
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 4.6
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.335
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.269Speed 2023
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 5
Submission to acceptance (median days): 79Usage 2023
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Altmetric mentions: 2,518