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Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Galenos Publishing House.
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ISSN 1301-0336Verify ISSN ↗2147-5903Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Galenos Publishing House
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 500 / 597 | 16th | Q4 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 311 / 340 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery is Q4 in Surgery (rank 500 of 597) and Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 311 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4, 16th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.160, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery is published by Galenos Publishing House. Its print ISSN is 1301-0336 and its online ISSN is 2147-5903.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #398 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 55. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (95.8%) and United States (1.8%). 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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