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Spine Deformity is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2212-134XVerify ISSN ↗2212-1358Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 139 / 340 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Spine Deformity is Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 139 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Spine Deformity 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.764, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Spine Deformity is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2212-134X and its online ISSN is 2212-1358.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Spine Deformity has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 1.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Spine Deformity published 230 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 249. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (51.8%), Japan (11.8%) and Canada (7.5%). 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. 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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