Journal profile
Critical Care Innovations
ISSN 2545-2533 · Towarzystwo Pomocy Doraźnej · Poland
Critical Care Innovations: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); acceptance rate 29% (journal website).
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Critical Care Innovations (CCI) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses all fundamental aspects of critical care, emergency medicine, anesthesiology and intensive care, emergency systems, but also public health and medical education, with an emphasis on innovative and cutting-edge solutions. The journal is supported by the Emergency Care Association, Poland (Towarzystwo Pomocy Doraźnej), who covers the cost of publication on behalf of the authors on acceptance of their article. The Journal publishes only high-quality research and review articles, letters to the editor and case reports. All publications are available as Open Access, allowing readers to read the full version of the article (Creative Commons CC BY-NC licence 4.0). CCI aims to provide an international forum for encouraging interdisciplinary discussions and contributing to the advancement of medicine, benefiting readers and authors by accelerating the dissemination of research information and providing maximum access to scholarly communication. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: » emergency medicine » anesthesiology » intensive care » trauma » life-threatening conditions » resuscitation » medical rescue system » management in health care » public health » medical professions » medical education » health promotion Frequency of publication: 4 issues a year First editorial decision: on average up to 14 days The principle of reviewing: double-blind review proces Publication fee: Without payments Subscription fee: Without payments Abstracting and indexing European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) Le catalogue du Système Universitaire de Documentation (SUDOC) Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) German Union Catalogue of Serials (Zeitschriftendatenbank - ZDB) International Scientific Indexing (ISI) - Cite Score based on ICR Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) CiteFactor - Academic Scientific Journals Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Asian Science Citation Index (ASCI) Polska Bibliografia Naukowa (PBN) Główna Biblioteka Lekarska (GBL) Electronic Journal Library (EZB) EBSCO Information Services Index Copernicus (IC) Biblioteka Nauki Scholar Google
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Dsc. Piotr LeszczyńskiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Poland 4, Sri Lanka 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIEERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, Sherpa Romeo
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- h-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 29%Publisher website ·
- Desk decision
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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 prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted3
- case report1) TITLE PAGE 2) ABSTRACT 3) KEYWORDS 4) CHAPTERS Introduction Case presentation Discussion Conclusions References Case reports CARE checklist - click hereLength not stated
- original article1) TITLE PAGE 2) ABSTRACT 3) KEYWORDS 4) CHAPTERS Introduction Materials and methods Results Discussion Conclusions References Randomized trials CONSORT checkli…Length not stated
- review article1) TITLE PAGE 2) ABSTRACT 3) KEYWORDS 4) CHAPTERS Introduction Other parts Conclusions References Systematic review meta-analysis PRISMA checklist - click here …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Peer review
- Authorship QUALIFYING FOR AUTHORSHIP
ICMJE Recommendations ... Author Contributions CRediT Taxonomy A - Conceptualization (Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.) B - Data Curation (Management activities to annotate / produce metadata, scrub data and maintain research data, including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself, for initial use and later reuse. C - Formal Anal…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer-review policy
Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here. Critical Care Innovations journal operat…
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
- Towarzystwo Pomocy Doraźnej
- Country or region
- Poland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2545-2533
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Critical Care Innovations
How long does peer review take at Critical Care Innovations?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 29%. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Critical Care Innovations based?
Of the 5 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Poland (4) and Sri Lanka (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Critical Care Innovations?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Critical Care Innovations is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists SCIE and ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Critical Care Innovations open access, and what is the APC?
Critical Care Innovations is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .