About the Journal
Journal History
Clinical Critical Care is the official journal of the Thai Society of Critical Care Medicine (TSCCM) which was founded in 1988. The first printed journal on the name of Thai Journal of Critical Care Medicine (วารสารเวชบำบัดวิกฤต) began in 2009 quaterly and then changed to semiannual in 2017 in Thai language. In 2021, the name of the journal was changed to Clinical Critical Care (Clin Crit Care, CCC). All articles in Clinical Critical Care is published in English. Only Thai clinical practice guidelines or recommendations are published either English or Thai. Because of the advancement of technology and media, the printed journal was discontinued, all articles in Clinical Critical Care therefore, have been provided exclusively on-line as electronic journal without printed version. The articles in Clinical Critical Care are updated to the website after acceptance for publication. Clinical Critical Care is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the author or the publisher.
Aim and Scope
Clinical Critical Care is a scientific peer-review journal on multidisciplinary area of medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, nursing, pharmacology, respiratory therapy , physical therapy that involved in all aspects of clinical critical care, such as intensive and critical care, trauma and surgical intensive care, acute surgical care, anesthesiology in critically ill, peri-operative care of critically ill and high risk patients, pediatric intensive care, acute and emergency medicine, resuscitation, sepsis and infectious diseases, infection control, organ dysfunction and organ support as well as critical care education. In addition, the journal also accept publication on the study or research protocol on the field of critical care, acute medicine, anesthesiology and surgery.
Types of articles
Editorial, Original Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports, Study Protocols, Medical education, Recommendations and Guidelines, Expert opinion and letter to editor.
Review Policy
Clinical Critical Care review policy is a single-blinded peer-review system, where the reviewers know of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the authors do not know the reviewer on the manuscript.
Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two or more experts who will be asked to evaluate the manuscript in term of scientific validity, no duplication work, and appropriate for publication. The final decision is performed by the Editor-in-Chief.
Peer review and publication processes
1. Screening after Submission
The screening process begins after complete submission. The manuscript may be returned to the author after receipt and without a review if it does not fit the aims and scope or does not follow the instructions to the authors.
2. Peer Review Process
The manuscripts will be reviewed by two or more expert reviewers. After reviews, the editor may request authors to revise the manuscripts according to the reviewer’s opinion. After revising the manuscript, the author should upload the revised files with a response to reviewer comments to each item of the reviewer’s opinion. The author’s revisions should be completed within 60 days after the request. If the revised manuscript is not received by the due date, reminding letters will be sent to the authors. The revision process might be discontinued depend on editor decision. The Editorial Board will make a final decision on the approval of the submitted manuscript for publication and can request any further corrections, revisions, and deletions of the article text when necessary.
3. Process after Acceptance
When the manuscript is finally accepted, the proofreading will be sent to the corresponding author after professional manuscript editing and/or English proofreading. Proofreading should be performed again for any misspellings, typos or errors by the authors. The final version will appear in PDF with unique DOI number.
4. Fee for Publication and Reprints
The Journal has no article processing charge. However, this policy could be changed in the future.
5. Copyright and Open Access
Copyright ownership is to be transferred to the TSCCM. The authors should submit the, “Authorship Responsibility and License Agreement Form” at the time of manuscript submission. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
6. Clinical Data Sharing Policy
The journal accepts the ICMJE recommendations for data sharing statement policy (http://icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf). All manuscripts reporting clinical trial results are recommended to submit data sharing statement following the ICMJE guidelines. The data were available upon reasonable request by directly contacting the author or corresponding author.
