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JOR Spine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 2572-1143Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 65 / 340 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
JOR Spine is Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 65 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
JOR Spine 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.970, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,480 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.
JOR Spine is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its ISSN is 2572-1143.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
JOR Spine has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 3.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
JOR Spine published 134 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (30.1%), China (17.5%) and Switzerland (8.8%).
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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