Mission Statement

The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine publishes high-quality original papers, reviews, and clinical trials in respiratory, critical care, and sleep medicine to foster advances in translational research and clinical practice.

Introduction

The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine focuses on human biology and disease, as well as animal studies that contribute to the understanding of pathophysiology and treatment of diseases that affect the respiratory system and critically ill patients. Papers that are solely or predominantly based in cell and molecular biology are published in the companion journal, the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. The Journal also seeks to publish clinical trials and outstanding review articles on areas of interest in several forms. The State-of-the-Art review is a treatise usually covering a broad field that brings bench research to the bedside. Shorter reviews are published as Critical Care Perspectives or Pulmonary Perspectives. These are generally focused on a more limited area and advance a concerted opinion about care for a specific process. Concise Clinical Reviews provide an evidence-based synthesis of the literature pertaining to topics of fundamental importance to the practice of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Images providing advances or unusual contributions to the field are published as Images in Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine and the Sciences.

A recent trend and future direction of the Journal has been to include debates of a topical nature on issues of importance in pulmonary and critical care medicine and to the membership of the American Thoracic Society. Other recent changes have included encompassing works from the field of critical care medicine and the extension of the editorial governing of journal policy to colleagues outside of the United States of America. The focus and direction of the Journal is to establish an international forum for state-of-the-art respiratory and critical care medicine.

History

The first issue of the journal was published in March 1917 as the American Review of Tuberculosis. Since then there have been several title changes. In 1953 a subtitle was added, “A Journal of Pulmonary Diseases.” In 1955 the title became the American Review of Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases, in 1959 the American Review of Respiratory Diseases, and in 1966 the title became the American Review of Respiratory Disease. Finally, in 1994 the Journal became the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Recent editors included John F. Murray, MD (1973-1980), Gareth Green, MD (1980-1985), Reuben Cherniack, MD (1985-1989), Robert A. Klocke, MD (1989-1994), Alan R. Leff, MD (1994-1999), Martin J. Tobin (1999-2004), Edward Abraham, MD, (2004-2009), and Jacob Isasha Sznajder, MD (2010-2014). The current editor, Jadwiga A. Wedzicha, MD, is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute (Royal Brompton Campus), Imperial College London, UK.

Aims and Scope

The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine focuses on human biology and disease, as well as animal and in vitro studies that contribute to the understanding of pathophysiology and treatment of diseases that affect the respiratory system and critically ill patients.

Journal Statistics

• Impact Factor: 21.4

• 5-year Impact Factor: 15.583

• Eigenfactor score: 0.08631

• Article Influence score: 7.251

• Google Scholar rank: 1st in pulmonology

• Google Scholar h5-index: 112

• Time from Acceptance to Publication: Officially accepted articles are posted within 48 hours; print versions are published within 4 months

• Time to First Decision: ~ 5 weeks for manuscripts sent out to peer review

Index / Abstract Listings

The contents of American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine are listed in Index Medicus®, Current Contents/Life Sciences®, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine®, Current Contents/Life Sciences on Diskette®, Medlars®, Medline®, RadLine, and CABS (Current Awareness in Biological Sciences).

AJRCCM is also a PubMed Core Clinical Journal.

General Information

Frequency: Twice monthly

Circulation: 18,500

Subscription Base: Worldwide

ISSN:

Print Version: 1073-449X

Online Version: 1535-4970

Submission Fee (before acceptance): Authors are billed a $50.00 submission fee at the time of the submission of a manuscript. Submission fees are nonrefundable. Please write to the Publisher, Diane Gern, at [email protected] if there is a hardship or special circumstances.

Page Charges (after acceptance): Authors are billed for page charges at different rates depending on their ATS membership status. Nonmembers are billed at the rate of $105 per printed page. Full U.S. ATS members and international Level A members are billed $75, U.S. affiliate members are billed $85, U.S. and international trainee members are billed $40, international Level B members are billed $45, and international Level C members are billed $20 per printed page. Member discounts are based solely on the corresponding author’s membership status in the Society. Level B and C memberships comprise countries with limited resources. (If you are not a member of the ATS and would like to join, please visit the “Become a Member” page, or contact [email protected] or 212-315-8685.)

Instructions for Contributors

Permission Requests: Direct all requests to Diane Gern, Publisher. Address: ATS Editorial Office, 25 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10004; FAX: 212-315-6455; Email: [email protected]