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Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 0974-8237Verify ISSN ↗0976-9285Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 317 / 597 | 46th | Q3 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 287 / 403 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine is Q3 in Surgery (rank 317 of 597) and Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 287 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.481, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 0974-8237 and its online ISSN is 0976-9285.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 1.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #275 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine published 75 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 83. 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 United States (33%), India (31.8%) and Türkiye (5.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (4.2 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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