Aims and scope

Critical Care Innovations (CCI) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses all fundamental aspects of critical care, emergency medicine, anesthesiology and intensive care, emergency systems, but also public health and medical education, with an emphasis on innovative and cutting-edge solutions. The journal is supported by the Emergency Care Association, Poland (Towarzystwo Pomocy Doraźnej), who covers the cost of publication on behalf of the authors on acceptance of their article. The Journal publishes only high-quality research and review articles, letters to the editor and case reports. All publications are available as Open Access, allowing readers to read the full version of the article (Creative Commons CC BY-NC licence 4.0). CCI aims to provide an international forum for encouraging interdisciplinary discussions and contributing to the advancement of medicine, benefiting readers and authors by accelerating the dissemination of research information and providing maximum access to scholarly communication. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  » emergency medicine
  » anesthesiology
  » intensive care
  » trauma
  » life-threatening conditions
  » resuscitation
  » medical rescue system
  » management in health care
  » public health
  » medical professions
  » medical education
  » health promotion

Frequency of publication:
  4 issues a year

First editorial decision:
  on average up to 14 days

The principle of reviewing:
  double-blind review proces

Publication fee:
  Without payments

Subscription fee:
  Without payments

Abstracting and indexing

Why publish your article in
Critical Care Innovations journal?

Peer-review policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here. Critical Care Innovations journal operates a double-blind review proces, where the authors and reviewers are anonymous to each other. The benefit of double-blind peer review is that it is the traditional model of peer review that many reviewers are comfortable with, and it facilitates a dispassionate critique of a manuscript. Edited by prof. Piotr Leszczyński, Critical Care Innovations is supported by an expert Editorial Board. All submitted manuscripts are evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief and appropriate manuscripts are then assigned to an Associate Editor for handling. If the article corresponds to the subject of the journal, it receives the status IN REVIEW within 7 days. Articles of low quality or beyond the scope of the journal's interest receive the REJECTED status. The Associate Editor calls upon at least two reviewers for their comments. The indicated reviewers are specialists in a given field, they permanently cooperate with the CCI editorial office or are invited as a guest. We make every effort to reach an initial decision within four weeks of submission. Based on the reviews, the Editor-in-Chief rejects, accepts or requests revisions of the manuscript. Approved articles are published immediately in the IN PRESS mode. The article receives an issue number, page number, and DOI, usually within 3 months.