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'.