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Australian Critical Care

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ15758181 ↗
Source-derived summary

Australian Critical Care is a bimonthly peer-reviewed nursing journal covering clinically relevant research, reviews, and articles of interest to the critical care community. It is published by Elsevier and was established in 1988, with Pam Robinson as its founding editor-in-chief. It is the official journal of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses and its current editor-in-chief is Andrea Marshall (Griffith University).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

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Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.930.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Australian Critical Care” is journal. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Australian, Critical and Care, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Australian, Critical and Care is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “journal” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q15758181. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 2017.

Critical limits

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Australian Critical Care”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Australian Critical Care primary sources, Australian Critical Care archive and Australian research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Australian Critical Care” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.