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Global Spine Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 2192-5682Verify ISSN ↗2192-5690Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 24 / 597 | 96th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 29 / 340 | 91st | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 71 / 403 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
Global Spine Journal is Q1 in Surgery (rank 24 of 597), Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 29 of 340) and Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 71 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Spine Journal 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 7.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.306, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Global Spine Journal is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 2192-5682 and its online ISSN is 2192-5690.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Global Spine Journal has an h-index of 85 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Global Spine Journal published 478 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (31.6%), China (18.2%) and Japan (11.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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