The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of Critical Care and its the corresponding percentile for the sake of comparison with the entire literature. Impact Factor is the most common scientometric index, which is defined by the number of citations of papers in two preceding years divided by the number of papers published in those years.
How Influential is Critical Care?
Critical Care is the 2nd out of 86 Critical Care Medicine journals. This means the journal is among the top 3% in the discipline of Critical Care Medicine. This Journal is the 4th out of 1,172 Nursing journals. This means the journal is among the top 1% in the discipline of Nursing. This Journal is the 163rd out of 15,471 Health Sciences journals. This means the journal is among the top 2% in the science branch of Health Sciences.
How are inpact factors calculated?
The impact factor (IF) is calculated by counting citations from peer-reviewed journals only.
extended IF also counts citations from books and conference papers. However, no patent, abstract, working papers, online documents, etc., are covered.
