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01-09-2016 | Editorial

The editorial policy of Intensive Care Medicine

Author: Élie Azoulay

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 9/2016

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Intensive Care Medicine (ICM), the organ of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), is an international journal that publishes all of critical care. Our journal ranks first among those publishing exclusively critical care and third (out of 33) in the critical care track of Thomson and Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports. ICM is now in the top 200 indexed medical journals (186/11,962). Over the past 15 years, ICM has received >20,000 manuscripts from all over the world. Over this period, the annual number of manuscripts submitted has doubled, the time to first decision has been cut by two-thirds, and the impact factor has been multiplied by three (Fig. 1). Moreover, ICM usage (access to abstracts, full article downloads, access to social media etc.) has exponentially increased. …

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Title: The editorial policy of Intensive Care Medicine
Author: Élie Azoulay
Publication date: 01-09-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 9/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4476-3

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