Spine's 2026 Journal Metrics Score is 2.6, ranking Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 1 other subfield. Two-year citation average from OpenAlex data, updated August 2026.
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Journal Metrics Score 2026 · 2021–2024 window citedness 3.16.
Middle 50%: 63–89 days
99 of 100 PubMed-indexed articles · 99% coverage · 2024–2025
Spine accepts papers a median of 71 days after submission, including peer review and revisions. That is faster than 84% of comparable journals with PubMed timing data.
No journal-level APC is available in the current OpenAlex snapshot. Cost is excluded from scoring.
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281 of 1,345 works · same type, year & subfield
12 works · same type, year & subfield
Above field-year expectation
of 2,145 topic-associated OpenAlex sources by lifetime output
FWCI compares papers with the same publication year, type, and field. 1.0 is the world average; above 1.0 is above expectation. This journal's median is 1.29, so its typical recent paper runs about 29% above its field benchmark.
20.9% of recent papers rank in the global top 10% after field normalization. This is easier to compare across specialties than raw citation totals.
Volume is separated from citation accumulation so newer papers are not presented as weaker simply because they are newer.
OpenAlex source records · 2016–2025
1,345 OpenAlex works · 2021–2024
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| Category | Quartile |
|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | Q1 |
| Surgery | Q1 |
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Spine's 2026 Journal Metrics Score is 2.6, from the August 2026 data release. The score is a two-year citation average computed from OpenAlex (CC0) data: citations received in the most recent complete year to works published in the two prior years, divided by the number of those works.
Spine's best quartile is Q1. By OpenAlex subfield: Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine; Q1 in Surgery. Quartiles rank journals by Journal Metrics Score within each subfield.
No. Journal Metrics computes the score independently from OpenAlex open data. Other providers use different citation databases, document types, and counting rules, so their published figures for Spine will not match this score exactly. Compare journals using one source at a time.
Spine accepts papers a median of 71 days after submission across 99 recent PubMed records with both dates; the middle half took 63–89 days. This includes peer review, editorial handling, and revisions.
PubMed records when a manuscript was received and accepted, not the individual review stages, so peer review time on its own is not available. The full time from submission to acceptance at Spine, which includes peer review and revisions, has a median of 71 days. For the time to a first decision, check the journal's own website.
Spine's median of 71 days from submission to acceptance is faster than 84% of comparable journals with PubMed timing data.
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