Journal profile · Medicine-Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

Case Reports in Critical Care

ISSN 2090-6420 · eISSN 2090-6439 · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. · USA

Case Reports in Critical Care: fully open access; APC about USD 870; median 197 days to acceptance (101 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 43% (journal website); 35 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartileQ3Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine · rank 90/122 · 26th percentile
Review time197 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · 101 articles, last 24 months · Crossref
APCUSD 870Fully open access
Acceptance43%From the journal's website (2024)
Articles per year352025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Case Reports in Critical Care is published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, Poisoning and overdose treatments and Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, together about 27.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Case Reports in Critical Care is an open access journal that publishes case reports and case series in all areas of critical care medicine, including anesthesiology, perioperative and critical care medicine, and postoperative critical care management and recovery.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Respiratory Support and MechanismsMedicine11%
  2. Poisoning and overdose treatmentsMedicine9%
  3. Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine8%
  4. Mechanical Circulatory Support DevicesEngineering6.7%
  5. COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine5.4%
  6. Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine5%
  7. Acute Kidney Injury ResearchMedicine4.4%
  8. Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Associated PhenomenaMedicine4.3%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

SubjectQuartileRankPercentile
Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineQ390/12226th

Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub

Database indexing

ScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Metrics

Impact metrics and publication volume

Impact

CiteScore 2026-06
0.9LetPub ·
CiteScore (publisher) 2024
0.9Publisher website ·
SJR 2026-06
0.19LetPub ·
SNIP 2026-06
0.45LetPub ·
h-index
23OpenAlex ·
i10-index
130OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
0.51OpenAlex ·
Share of gold OA articles
0%LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 594 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
20267272167
20253535302
20242020400
20231616467
20222828545
20214949476

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Review & acceptance

Review time and acceptance

Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to

197 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 129 days – 290 days

Acceptance to online
median 19 days (101 articles)
Submission to online
median 222 days
Sample
101 articles with submission and acceptance dates (96 in the window); the latest was accepted on

Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)
about 12 weeksLetPub ·
Acceptance rate (publisher) 2024
43%Publisher website ·
Submission to first decision 2024
87 daysPublisher website ·
Submission to publication (journal-reported)
about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
Peer review
Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

Fees & open access

APC and open-access policy

Fully open accessDOAJ

Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
DOAJUSD 870 / GBP 580 / EUR 750YesCC BY
OpenAlexUSD 790 / EUR 680 / GBP 580——
LetPubUSD 725Yes—

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Submission

Article types and submission policies (journal website)

What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
Abstract
≤ 300 words
Reference style
Chicago
First submission
Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Graphical abstract
Optional
Publisher website · model-extracted, each line checked against the text
Article types accepted2
  1. case reportCase ReportLength not stated
  2. case seriesCASE SERIESLength not stated
Publisher website
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, License & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
Authorship Title and authorship information

The following information should be included: Manuscript title Full author names Full institutional mailing addresses Email addresses Affiliations. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in institutional affiliations. Responsibility for affiliations ultimately rests with the author, although the publisher may request changes be made to countries listed in affiliations t…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Conflicts of interest Conflicts of interest

Authors limited to three manuscripts under review at any point in time. Model summary

Authors must declare all relevant interests that could be perceived as conflicting. Authors should explain why each interest may represent a conflict. If no conflicts exist, the authors should state this. Submitting authors are responsible for co-authors declaring their interests. Conflicts of interest (COIs, also known as 'competing interests') occur when issues outside research could be reasonab…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Data availability Data availability

Authors must include a data availability statement with their submission. When submitting a manuscript, submitting authors will be asked to select from several pre-written statements or use the text editor to tell us about data availability with regard to their submission. Review our Data Sharing Policy to understand which data availability statement is right for your submission.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
License & copyright Copyright and permissions

Copyright retained by authors; open access articles distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License. Model summary

Authors retain the copyright of their manuscripts, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not speci…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Peer review Peer review

Single-anonymized peer review model for applicable article types. Model summary

The journal follows a single-anonymized peer review model, for applicable article types. Information on the Peer Review model can be found here. Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here. All submitted articles are subject to assessment and peer review to ensure editorial appropriateness and technical correctness. Research published in the journal must be: Scien…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Plagiarism

Uses iThenticate's CrossCheck software for plagiarism detection. Model summary

This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Preprints Preprints

Preprint servers accepted. Model summary

The journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers, and does not consider this to compromise the novelty of the results. Articles based on content previously made public only on a preprint server, institutional repository, or in a thesis will be considered. The preprint should be cited.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting guidelines

Authors are strongly encouraged to use appropriate reporting guidelines when preparing and submitting manuscripts, to maximize transparency and reproducibility. Our editors and reviewers are also encouraged to use them in the review process. Completed checklists should be provided in the supplementary files on submission. We particularly encourage the use of: CONSORT for randomized controlled tria…

Source ↗Publisher website ·

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Profile

Publication details and official links

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Country or region
USA
Language
English
ISSN
2090-6420
Electronic ISSN
2090-6439
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Case Reports in Critical Care

How long does peer review take at Case Reports in Critical Care?

Based on the dates recorded on 101 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 197 days (interquartile range 129–290 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 43% (2024). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.

What are the manuscript requirements of Case Reports in Critical Care?

According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Reference style: Chicago; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Graphical abstract: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.

Which databases index Case Reports in Critical Care?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Case Reports in Critical Care is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.

Is Case Reports in Critical Care open access, and what is the APC?

Case Reports in Critical Care is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 870.

Sources and updates

The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .