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Neurospine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society.
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ISSN 2586-6583Verify ISSN ↗2586-6591Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 12 / 597 | 98th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 53 / 403 | 86th | 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 8.4.
Neurospine is Q1 in Surgery (rank 12 of 597) and Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 53 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Neurospine 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 8.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.771, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
Neurospine is published by Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society. Its print ISSN is 2586-6583 and its online ISSN is 2586-6591.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Neurospine has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 5.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Neurospine published 111 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 167. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (27.4%), China (23%) and United States (13.7%).
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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