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Spine Surgery and Related Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research.
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ISSN 2432-261XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 250 / 597 | 58th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 182 / 340 | 46th | Q3 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 259 / 403 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Spine Surgery and Related Research is Q2 in Surgery (rank 250 of 597), Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 182 of 340) and Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 259 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Spine Surgery and Related Research 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.608, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Spine Surgery and Related Research is published by Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research. Its ISSN is 2432-261X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Spine Surgery and Related Research has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #327 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Spine Surgery and Related Research published 96 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 102. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (79.3%), United States (10.1%) and India (2%). 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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