Journal of the Intensive Care Society

Journal of the Intensive Care Society is the quarterly journal of the Intensive Care Society, the United Kingdom society for critical care, and it has carried this title since its first volume in 2000.《重症医学会杂志》是英国重症医学会（Intensive Care Society）的季刊，2000 年第 1 卷起沿用现名，同行评审，读者为重症医学的多专业团队。

SAGE Publications issues it from London on the society's behalf, and the 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, against a five-year figure of 2.1 and a third-quartile place in critical care medicine.刊物由 SAGE Publications 代学会在伦敦出版，2025 年期刊影响因子 1.9，五年影响因子 2.1，在重症医学类目居第三四分位。

Scope

• Clinical intensive care holds the centre, from septic shock and acute respiratory distress syndrome through acute kidney injury to the multiple organ failure that can follow major surgery.临床重症医学居于中心，脓毒性休克与急性呼吸窘迫综合征是常见题目，急性肾损伤以及大手术后可能出现的多器官衰竭同样在内。
• Airway management and mechanical ventilation take a large share of the papers, with weaning, non-invasive support, tracheostomy practice and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation all represented.气道管理与机械通气占去许多篇幅，撤机、无创支持、气管切开实践与体外膜氧合各有文章。
• Neurocritical care, sedation practice, delirium prevention and early rehabilitation fall within the same brief, as do the impairments that survivors carry home months after discharge.神经重症、镇静实践、谵妄预防与早期康复同在这一范围内，患者出院数月后仍带着的功能损害也在视野之中。
• The readership is deliberately multi-professional, and intensivists, critical care nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and dietitians all find work addressed to them.读者群刻意保持多专业，重症科医师、重症监护护士、临床药师、物理治疗师与营养师都能找到写给自己的文章。
• Quality improvement and patient safety form a standing strand, with audit cycles, care bundles and accounts of how a change was introduced, measured and then held in place.质量改进与患者安全是常设的一条线，审计循环、集束化治疗以及某项改动如何引入、如何测量、又如何稳住，都有实录。
• Education and training receive regular space, among them simulation, assessment of competence, supervision of trainees and the passage from assisted practice to independent work.教育与培训定期占有版面，模拟教学、能力评估、受训者督导以及从协助操作走向独立执业的过程都在其中。
• Ethics and law arrive through end-of-life decisions, ceilings of treatment, capacity and the conversations that families and clinicians hold in the days before a death.伦理与法律问题经由临终决策、治疗上限、行为能力认定进入刊物，家属与临床医生在患者去世前几天的那场谈话也在此列。
• Service organisation is treated as a clinical subject in its own right, covering bed capacity, occupancy pressure, transfer and retrieval, and the operation of regional critical care networks.服务组织被视为独立的临床题目，床位容量、占用压力、院内转运与院际转运，以及区域重症网络如何运转，均有涉及。
• Guidance from the society appears here, with position statements and consensus documents prepared by working parties and aimed at units that need a settled answer quickly.学会的指导文件在此发表，立场声明与共识文件由工作组起草，面向需要尽快拿到定论的重症科室。
• Case reports survive as a category, reserved for rare presentations and for the lesson a single admission can teach, a form that general medical journals have largely set aside.病例报告作为一个类别保留下来，留给罕见表现，也留给单次收治能够给出的教训，这类文体在综合性医学刊物中已多被弃置。
• Narrative and systematic reviews serve readers who need the state of a question rather than another dataset, and they are commissioned with that readership in mind.叙述性综述与系统综述面向想弄清某个问题现状的读者，他们要的是对局面的梳理，不指望再添一份数据，组稿时也按这一读者定位来定。
• Workforce studies examine rota design, burnout, moral distress and retention, questions that decide how a unit is staffed at three in the morning.人力研究考察排班设计、职业倦怠、道德困境与留任，这些问题决定了一个科室在凌晨三点究竟有几个人守着。
• The pandemic years left a visible mark, with reports on infection control, visiting restrictions, staff redeployment and the surge capacity that units improvised under pressure.疫情年份留下了清楚痕迹，感染控制、探视限制、人员调配以及科室在压力下临时凑出的扩容能力，都有报告。
• Letters and short reports give readers a route to contest a published paper or record a local observation without the length that a full article demands.来信与短篇报告为读者留出通道，可以质疑已发表论文，也可以记录本地观察，不必撑到整篇论文的篇幅。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in 2000, and the numbering has run without interruption since, so volume 16 opened in 2015 and volume 26 in 2025.第 1 卷于 2000 年问世，此后卷号未曾中断，第 16 卷在 2015 年开出，第 26 卷落在 2025 年。
• The earliest deposits in Crossref are from volume 4, number 2, dated June 2003, which fixes the start of the sequence four years earlier.Crossref 中最早的存档为第 4 卷第 2 期，标注 2003 年 6 月，由此上推四年即是卷次的起点。
• Stansted News Ltd of Stortford, Hertfordshire, published the early volumes, a small medical house rather than a global group, as the National Library of Medicine imprint still records.早期各卷由 Stansted News Ltd 在赫特福德郡斯托福德印行，那是一间小型医学出版机构，规模不及国际集团，美国国家医学图书馆（National Library of Medicine）的出版项至今保留这一记录。
• Publication passed to SAGE in 2015, when the imprint moves to London and volume 16 begins, the same year the journal enters PubMed.出版工作于 2015 年转至 SAGE，出版项改记伦敦，第 16 卷同时开局，刊物也在这一年进入 PubMed。
• PubMed coverage starts at volume 16, number 1, in February 2015, and full text has been placed in PubMed Central since that point.PubMed 收录自 2015 年 2 月的第 16 卷第 1 期起算，全文自此存入 PubMed Central。
• Four issues a year has been the settled rhythm for most of the title's life, and the National Library of Medicine records that schedule from 2009 onward.每年四期是这份刊物大部分年份的定式，美国国家医学图书馆的著录自 2009 年起即记作四季刊。
• Supplements have run beside the regular numbers, carrying abstracts and themed collections that sit outside the ordinary issue sequence.增刊与正刊并行，承载摘要与专题文集，不占正刊的期次顺序。
• The title has never been renamed, and a single identifier, 1751-1437, serves the printed and the electronic edition alike.刊名从未更改，印刷版与网络版共用同一个标识 1751-1437。
• Clarivate indexes the journal in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, which brings a Journal Impact Factor without the fuller coverage of Science Citation Index Expanded.Clarivate 将该刊收入新兴来源引文索引（Emerging Sources Citation Index），因此刊物有影响因子，却不在科学引文索引扩展版（Science Citation Index Expanded）的完整收录之内。
• The impact factor read 2.1 in 2023, dropped to 1.4 in 2024 and returned to 1.9 in 2025, with a five-year figure of 2.1 attached to the latest year.影响因子 2023 年为 2.1，2024 年降至 1.4，2025 年回到 1.9，最近一年对应的五年影响因子为 2.1。
• In the 2025 release the journal ranks 43rd among 66 titles in CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, a percentile of 35.6 with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.41.2025 年榜单中，刊物在重症医学类目 66 种刊物里列第 43 位，百分位 35.6，期刊引证指标 0.41。
• Citations accumulate slowly and stay with the title, 1143 in total against a cited half-life of 5.4 years, a profile common to clinical journals read at the bedside.被引积累得慢却留得住，总数 1143，被引半衰期 5.4 年，这一形态是床旁阅读的临床刊物常有的。
• About 53 citable items appear each year, while Crossref holds 2157 records for the title, the difference resting on editorials, letters and meeting abstracts.每年可引文献约 53 篇，Crossref 为该刊存有 2157 条记录，差额落在社论、来信与会议摘要上。
• Roughly a fifth of the papers, 20.77 per cent, are gold open access, and the rest are reached through subscription.约五分之一的论文以金色开放获取发表，比例为 20.77%，其余通过订阅获取。
• By 2026 the journal had reached volume 27, and those twenty-seven volumes amount to a continuous record of British critical care practice since the turn of the century.到 2026 年刊物已至第 27 卷，二十七个卷次连成一份英国重症医学实践的连续记录，起点就在世纪之交。

Editors

• Editorial work is led by an editor-in-chief with a group of deputy editors, each taking a share of submissions and carrying a decision through to its letter.编辑工作由主编主持，副主编分头承担一部分稿件，把决定一路跟到发出通知。
• The board is drawn from the society's membership and mirrors its multi-professional make-up, intensive care physicians sitting beside nurses, pharmacists and rehabilitation specialists.编委会从学会会员中选任，映出学会的多专业构成，重症科医师与护士、药师、康复专业人员同席。
• Research papers that clear the editorial screen go to external referees, and two independent reports are usually the least a decision rests on.通过编辑初筛的研究论文送外部审稿人，一项决定通常至少依据两份独立意见。
• Submission runs through the publisher's online platform, where the author selects an article type and the handling editor is matched to the subject rather than to the author.投稿经出版方的在线平台进行，作者先选定文体，责任编辑按题目所涉领域分派，与作者本人无关。
• Article types carry separate tracks, original research, review, case report, quality improvement report, education paper and letter, each with its own length limit and review expectation.各文体分轨处理，原创研究、综述、病例报告、质量改进报告、教育论文与来信各有字数上限与审稿要求。
• The arrangement with the publisher keeps editorial decisions apart from commercial and membership business, and the society is kept informed through reports rather than involved in single papers.与出版方的约定把编辑决定同商业事务、会务分开，学会经由报告了解刊物，不介入单篇稿件。
• Abstracts for the society's meetings pass a lighter screen than full papers, on the ground that the work has already been presented to members.学会会议的摘要走的筛查比全文轻，理由是这些工作已经在会员面前报告过。
• Corrections and retractions follow the publisher's publication ethics procedure, and a withdrawn paper stays visible with a notice attached to it.更正与撤稿按出版方的出版伦理程序处理，被撤下的论文仍留在原处，附一条声明。
• Accepted papers appear online before an issue is assigned, so a citation can carry a digital object identifier months ahead of its page numbers.录用稿件先在线发布，随后才编入某一期，因此引文拿到数字对象标识的时间可能比页码早几个月。
• The open access choice is made at acceptance and has no bearing on the decision, which is settled before the licence is agreed.开放获取在录用时选定，不影响评审结果，因为决定在许可协议谈定之前就已完成。
• Trainees and early-career staff appear often as first authors, and the education strand gives their work a route that larger critical care journals seldom offer.受训者与青年作者常以第一作者身份出现，教育栏目为他们的工作提供了一条大型重症刊物少有的通道。
• The full board is published on the journal's website and renewed as terms expire, so the composition of the team can be checked at any time.完整编委名单在刊物网站上公布，任期届满即行更替，团队构成随时可以查对。