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Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE. Published by American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
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ISSN 1547-5646Verify ISSN ↗1547-5654Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 37 / 597 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Neurology | 45 / 201 | 77th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 92 / 403 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine is Q1 in Surgery (rank 37 of 597), Q1 in Neurology (rank 45 of 201) and Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 92 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Neurosurgery: 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.511, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 135.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine is published by American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Its print ISSN is 1547-5646 and its online ISSN is 1547-5654.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine has an h-index of 167 and a 2-year mean of 2.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine published 190 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 298. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (64.1%), China (14.6%) and Japan (4.5%). 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 (0.3 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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