The American Journal of Critical Care is a bimonthly peer-reviewed nursing journal covering evidence-based critical care nursing.

It is published by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses as its official interprofessional research journal.

Bryan-Brown and K. Dracup as its founding editors-in-chief.

Its current editor-in-chief is Cindy L. Munro (University of Miami).

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.055.