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The Spine Journal

ISSN 1529-9430 · Elsevier BV · United States · active 2001–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
1.7
SJR
1.77
h-index
171

“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: unknown. 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

spineintervertebraldiscpathologyforensicmedicinespinalfracturesfixationtechniquessurgerycervical

Frequently asked

Is The Spine Journal a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag The Spine Journal. 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 The Spine Journal indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, The Spine Journal 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 The Spine Journal's impact?

Papers in The Spine Journal are cited about 1.7 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 171. 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 The Spine Journal open access?

We hold no reliable open-access classification for The Spine Journal. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.

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