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Clinical Spine Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 2380-0186Verify ISSN ↗2380-0194Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 199 / 597 | 66th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 158 / 340 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 232 / 403 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Clinical Spine Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 199 of 597), Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 158 of 340) and Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 232 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Spine Surgery is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.701, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 116.
Clinical Spine Surgery is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 2380-0186 and its online ISSN is 2380-0194.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinical Spine Surgery has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 1.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #246 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Clinical Spine Surgery published 233 papers in 2025. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (55.1%), South Korea (5.4%) and India (5.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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