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Spine Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 1529-9430Verify ISSN ↗1878-1632Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,980 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 16 / 597 | 97th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 19 / 340 | 94th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 56 / 403 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.2.
Spine Journal is Q1 in Surgery (rank 16 of 597), Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 19 of 340) and Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 56 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Spine Journal 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.770, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 151.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,980 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 Journal is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 1529-9430 and its online ISSN is 1878-1632.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Spine Journal has an h-index of 173 and a 2-year mean of 1.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #166 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Spine Journal published 641 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,005. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (72.7%), China (4.7%) and United Kingdom (3%). 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. 5 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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