Submit to your research to Critical Care to take advantage of:

• Rapid peer review
  Our insistence on fast and thorough peer review enables us to process manuscripts quickly; on average, initial decisions are reached within 5 weeks of submission.
  
  
• Publication immediately on acceptance
  All research articles are published and receive their final citations details on the day they are accepted. Fully copyedited and formatted versions of the article replace the accepted manuscript within 4 weeks. Within 48 hours of publication, your article will be listed in PubMed, bringing your work to its intended audience as quickly as possible.
  
  
• Highly cited
  Critical Care has an impact factor of 4.55, and recent studies have suggested that on average open access articles are more frequently accessed and twice as likely to be cited as those behind subscription barriers.
  
  
• Open access
  All research published in Critical Care is open access (freely available on the journal website, with the copyright retained by the author). Research articles are deposited in at least one widely and internationally recognized open access repository such as PubMed Central, complying with the NIH Public Access Policy and the Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy. To cover the cost of open access publishing we levy an article-processing charge.
  
  
• High visibility within the field
  Your work is freely accessible to a global audience, and over 160,000 articles are downloaded from the Critical Care website each month. Articles of special interest are press-released to the worldwide news media or highlighted in related commentaries.
  
  
• No page or figure limits
  Critical Care does not charge extra for longer articles, and any number of colour figures can be published with no additional cost to the standard article-processing charge. Large data sets can be published as additional files and movies or animation can also be included.