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.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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'.