Table 1 List of Critical Care Medicine journals according to their rank in Journal Citation Report 2019. For each journal we provide the following: Journal Rank and Full Title, Impact Factor (IF) and IF without self-citation (SC), Journal Self-Citation Rate (J-SC, year 2019), Publisher name, presence and description of policies on limiting SC. Each Journal’s name contains a hyperlink to its “instruction to authors/submission guidelines” so that readers may check them
From: Self-citation policies and journal self-citation rate among Critical Care Medicine journals
Journal rank and full title | IF | IF without SC | J-SC rate (2019) | Publisher | Policy description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lancet Respiratory Medicine | 25,09 | 24,31 | 3,1 | Elsevier SCI LTD, Oxford, England, | None |
2 | Intensive Care Medicine | 17,68 | 15,79 | 10,7 | Springer, New York, USA | Research articles and non-research articles (e.g. opinion, review, and commentary articles) must cite appropriate and relevant literature in support of the claims made. Excessive and inappropriate self-citation or coordinated efforts among several authors to collectively self-cite is strongly discouraged. |
3 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 17,45 | 15,95 | 8,6 | Amer Thoracic Soc, New York, USA | None |
4 | Chest | 8,31 | 7,91 | 4,8 | Amer Coll Chest Physicians, Northbrook, USA | None |
5 | Critical Care Medicine | 7,41 | 6,78 | 8,6 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA | None |
6 | Critical Care | 6,41 | 5,89 | 8,1 | BioMed Central LTD, London, England | Research articles and non-research articles (e.g. opinion, review, and commentary articles) must cite appropriate and relevant literature in support of the claims made. Excessive and inappropriate self-citation or coordinated efforts among several authors to collectively self-cite is strongly discouraged. |
7 | Resuscitation | 4,21 | 2,85 | 32,4 | Elsevier Ireland Ltd., Elsevier House, Clare, Ireland | None |
8 | Annals of Intensive Care | 4,12 | 3,90 | 5,5 | Springer, New York, USA | Research articles and non-research articles (e.g. Opinion, Review, and Commentary articles) must cite appropriate and relevant literature in support of the claims made. Excessive and inappropriate self-citation or coordinated efforts among several authors to collectively self-cite is strongly discouraged. |
9 | Critical Care Clinics | 3,80 | 3,80 | 0 | W B Saunders Co-Elsevier Inc., Philadelphia, USA | None |
10 | Journal of Neurotrauma | 3,79 | 3,46 | 8,8 | Mary Ann Liebert Inc., New Rochelle, USA | None |
11 | Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery | 3,38 | 2,77 | 17,9 | John Ewers Wolters Kluwer Baltimore, USA | None |
12 | Journal of Intensive Care Medicine | 3,14 | 3,12 | 0,6 | Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, USA | None |
13 | Journal of Intensive Care | 3,10 | 2.96 | 4,7 | BMC, Crinan St., London, England | Research articles and non-research articles (e.g. Opinion, Review, and Commentary articles) must cite appropriate and relevant literature in support of the claims made. Excessive and inappropriate self-citation or coordinated efforts among several authors to collectively self-cite is strongly discouraged.Authors should not preferentially cite their own or their friends’, peers’, or institution’s publications. |
14 | Shock | 2,96 | 2,71 | 8,3 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA | Research articles and non-research articles (e.g. Opinion, Review and Commentary articles) must cite appropriate and relevant literature in support of the claims made. Excessive and inappropriate self-citation or coordinate efforts among several authors to collectively self-cite is strongly discouraged |
15 | Current Opinion in Critical Care | 2,92 | 2,81 | 3,8 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA | None |
16 | Pediatric Critical Care Medicine | 2,85 | 2,26 | 21 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA | None |
17 | Neurocritical Care | 2,72 | 2,45 | 10 | Humana Press Inc., Totowa, USA | None |
18 | Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine | 2,71 | 2,32 | 14,1 | Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France | None |
19 | Journal of Critical Care | 2,68 | 2,55 | 5,1 | W B Saunders CO-Elsevier Inc., Philadelphia, USA, | None |
20 | Minerva Anestesiologica | 2,50 | 1,61 | 35,4 | Edizioni Minerva Medica, Turin, Italy | None |
21 | Critical Care and Resuscitation | 2,49 | 2,32 | 6,9 | Australasian Med Publ Co Ltd., Australia | None |
22 | Medicina Intensiva | 2,36 | 1,71 | 27,8 | Elsevier Espana Slu, Barcelona, Spain | None |
23 | Australian Critical Care | 2,21 | 1,89 | 14,5 | Elsevier Science Inc., New York, USA | None |
24 | Injury-International Journal of the Care of the Injured | 2,11 | 1,79 | 14,9 | Elsevier Sci Ltd., The Boulevard, Oxford, England | None |
25 | American Journal of Critical Care | 2,10 | 1,96 | 6,8 | Amer Assoc Critical Care Nurses, Aliso Viejo, USA | None |
26 | Burns | 2,07 | 1,62 | 21,5 | Elsevier Sci Ltd., The Boulevard, Oxford, England | None |
27 | Respiratory Care | 2,07 | 1,71 | 17,4 | Daedalus Enterprises Inc., Irving, USA | None |
28 | Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2,03 | 1,97 | 2,8 | Thieme Medical Publ Inc., New York, USA | None |
29 | Anaesthesia and Intensive Care | 1,54 | 1,36 | 11,8 | Australian SOC Anaesthetists, Edgecliff, Australia | None |
30 | Journal of Burn Care & Research | 1,53 | 1,29 | 15,7 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA | None |
31 | Critical Care Nurse | 1,48 | 1,44 | 2,9 | Amer Assoc Critical Care Nurses, Aliso Viejo, USA | None |
32 | Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management | 1,18 | 0,84 | 28,7 | Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., New Rochelle, USA, NY | None |
33 | Journal of Trauma Nursing | 0,87 | 0,80 | 8,8 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA | None |
34 | Anasthesiologie & Intensivmedizin | 0,84 | 0,58 | 30,4 | Aktiv Druck & Verlag GMBH, Ebelsbach, Germany | None |
35 | Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie | 0,53 | 0,50 | 5,1 | Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Stuttgart, Germany | None |