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Journal of Spine Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AME Publishing Company.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2414-4630Verify ISSN ↗2414-469XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AME Publishing Company
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 245 / 597 | 59th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 177 / 340 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Journal of Spine Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 245 of 597) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 177 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Spine Surgery 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.706, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 35.
Journal of Spine Surgery is published by AME Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2414-4630 and its online ISSN is 2414-469X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Spine Surgery has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #222 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Spine Surgery published 115 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 128. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (48.5%), Japan (8.4%) and Australia (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.9 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.
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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