Critical Care
Last updated ISSN 1364-8535
Critical Care is published by BioMed Central in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $4,190.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Critical Care concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Nosocomial Infections in ICU
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Acute Kidney Injury Research
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1364-8535, 1466-609X, 1574-4280, 1875-7081 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $4,190 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 21,438 |
| Publishing since | 1984 |
| Journal website | ccforum.biomedcentral.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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