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Indian Spine Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 2589-5079Verify ISSN ↗2589-5087Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 541 / 597 | 9th | Q4 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 380 / 403 | 5th | Q4 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 326 / 340 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Indian Spine Journal is Q4 in Surgery (rank 541 of 597), Q4 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 380 of 403) and Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 326 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 9th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.143, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Indian Spine Journal is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 2589-5079 and its online ISSN is 2589-5087.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Indian Spine Journal has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #469 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Indian Spine Journal published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 42. 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 83 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (84.3%), United States (5.4%) and Japan (2.4%). 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. 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.
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