How to publish with us
What is open access?
Intensive Care Research is an open access journal.
Publishing your research open access in a journal makes your research publicly available for everyone to read. Readers do not have to pay for access; there are no subscription charges or registration barriers. This means more readers, citations and impact for research published this way.
Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work:
-
Cited more
1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects
-
Downloaded more
4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles
-
Greater impact
2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions
Open access also enables compliance with many major funder policies internationally. Find out more about benefits of open access.
Publication fees
For information about any relevant fees for publishing in Intensive Care Research, please check the journal homepage or contact the Open Research Support team (ORSupport@springernature.com).
Visit our open access support portal for further information.
Creative Commons licences
Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles.
Intensive Care Research articles are published open access under a CC BY licence (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence). CC BY articles may be shared and adapted for any purpose, including commercially, so long as the authors are credited.
You may also wish to find out about licence variations that are available to meet funder and institutional open access licence requirements. Learn more in our guide to licensing, copyright and author rights for journal articles.