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Asian Spine Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Korean Society of Spine Surgery.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1976-1902Verify ISSN ↗1976-7846Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society of Spine Surgery
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 46 / 597 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 45 / 340 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Asian Spine Journal is Q1 in Surgery (rank 46 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 45 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Spine Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.241, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
Asian Spine Journal is published by Korean Society of Spine Surgery. Its print ISSN is 1976-1902 and its online ISSN is 1976-7846.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Asian Spine Journal has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 2.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Asian Spine Journal published 177 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 191. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (23.1%), South Korea (13.3%) and United States (12.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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