Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation

IOS Press·Netherlands·ISSN 1053-8127

Subscription or hybridMedicine

Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation is published by IOS Press as a subscription journal (ISSN 1053-8127). The list article processing charge is $4,150. Its OpenAlex h-index is 62. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$4,150

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked 22 Aug 2026 · How we source APCs

Time to publication

—

Not reported to DOAJ.

h-index

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

1.5

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation is listed at $4,150. The publisher also lists 3,043 GBP. No waiver policy is recorded in our sources, which does not mean none exists. Ask.

Peer review and licensing

Review model	Not reported
Licence	Not reported
Author keeps copyright	Not reported
Plagiarism screening	Not reported
Editorial board	Not linked in DOAJ
Languages	Not reported

Verification checks

3 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsNot listed. Many legitimate subscription journals are not in DOAJ, so this alone means little.Not confirmed
Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.Confirmed
Peer review model publicly declaredNo declared model found in DOAJ.Not confirmed
Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.Confirmed
Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.Not confirmed
Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.Not confirmed
Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.Not confirmed
Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.Confirmed

Scope

The subjects Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationSpine and Intervertebral Disc PathologyScoliosis diagnosis and treatmentMyofascial pain diagnosis and treatmentSports injuries and preventionShoulder Injury and TreatmentOccupational Health and PerformanceLower Extremity Biomechanics and PathologiesBalance, Gait, and Falls PreventionLegal and Regulatory Analysis

Publication record

Indexed articles	3,083
Total citations	30,874
i10-index	921
Most recent indexed article	2026
All ISSNs	1053-8127, 1878-6324

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.