Journal of Spine Surgery

ISSN 2414-4630 · AME Publishing Company · Hong Kong · active 2016–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
1.3
SJR
0.706
h-index
50

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

Access status: gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

spineintervertebraldiscpathologyforensicmedicinecervicalthoracicmyelopathysurgeryspinalfractures

Frequently asked

Is Journal of Spine Surgery a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Journal of Spine Surgery. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Journal of Spine Surgery indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Journal of Spine Surgery appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is Journal of Spine Surgery's impact?

Papers in Journal of Spine Surgery are cited about 1.3 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 50. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Journal of Spine Surgery open access?

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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