This review article was primarily intended to update the evidence on analyses of critical care journals through a search of PubMed database. There were 11 studies analyzing critical care journals in aspects of journals’ prices, editorial board composition, impact factor, national representation, national productivity, international representation, European contribution, Chinese contribution, and equal-credit authorship, survey reporting, and referencing accuracy. There is need for recent studies on analyzing methodological issues, ethical issues and conflicts of interest policies in critical care journals.

Keywords: Critical care; Intensive care; Journal trend; Publication policies; Anesthesiology research.