Journal profile
Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles
ISSN 2325-9205 · Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles · United States
Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 7 weeks (community reports); 11 articles in 2025; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: As of May 12, 2025, the Southwest Resipiratory and Critical Care Chronicles has been renamed The Southwest Journal of Medicine. We are proud to announce the release of our first issue under this new title. Please note that we are no longer accepting submissions through this platform. If you wish to make a submission, please do so via our new website located here. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles is published by Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, together about 23.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
This Journal publishes editorials, original articles, review articles, case reports, and images related to medicine with an emphasis on respiratory and critical care medicine. Manuscripts on all aspects of clinical medicine will be considered for publication. The Journal also publishes articles about public policy and medicine, statistics, medicine in art, medical education, and regional medicine.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Kenneth NugentPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Respiratory Support and MechanismsMedicine10.4%
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine6.6%
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ResearchMedicine6.5%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine6.2%
- Statistical Methods in EpidemiologyMathematics5.4%
- Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.7%
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine4.4%
- Tracheal and airway disordersMedicine4.4%
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
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
- 14OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 27OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.52OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 875 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 87 |
| 2025 | 11 | 11 | 150 |
| 2024 | 49 | 49 | 193 |
| 2023 | 57 | 57 | 243 |
| 2022 | 58 | 58 | 225 |
| 2021 | 66 | 66 | 217 |
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 7 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 7 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Unspecified 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-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- No other fees
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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)
Article types accepted6
- case reportCutaneous coccidioidomycosis presenting as a facial rash Nicole Remmert, Pablo Feuillet, Barath Rangaswamy 23-26 Abstract Full Text PDF Surgical management and …Length not stated
- case reportsThis Journal publishes editorials, original articles, review articles, case reports, and images related to all aspects of medicine with an emphasis on respirato…Length not stated
- editorialsThis Journal publishes editorials, original articles, review articles, case reports, and images related to all aspects of medicine with an emphasis on respirato…Length not stated
- imagesThis Journal publishes editorials, original articles, review articles, case reports, and images related to all aspects of medicine with an emphasis on respirato…Length not stated
- original articlesThis Journal publishes editorials, original articles, review articles, case reports, and images related to all aspects of medicine with an emphasis on respirato…Length not stated
- review articlesThis Journal publishes editorials, original articles, review articles, case reports, and images related to all aspects of medicine with an emphasis on respirato…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, Open access, Peer review
- Data availability Data Sharing Policy
Deidentified data sets may be shared with other investigators upon request provided that the purpose involves clinical investigation. Please contact the editor who will then contact the corresponding author for the particular article in question.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
No processing fees; 100% open access peer reviewed articles. Model summary
This journal charges no processing fees while maintaining 100% open access peer reviewed articles.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
For almost all submissions, two peer reviewers evaluate each submission within two to six weeks and submit a written report to the editors. During peer review, all manuscripts are considered privileged communications; copying them, showing them to anyone, and discussing personal evaluations or recommendations are prohibited without approval of the editorial staff. Manuscripts are to be destroyed a…
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
- Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2325-9205
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13, Issue 54 (2025)
- 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
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles
How long does peer review take at Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles?
Authors report an average review time of about 7 weeks. 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.
Which databases index Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles open access, and what is the APC?
Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 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, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; 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: .