BiomedicalPublications

Seminars in Spine Surgery

Elsevier BV·United States·ISSN 1040-7383

Subscription or hybridMedicine

Cost to publish

$2,350

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Time to publication

—

Not reported to DOAJ.

h-index

21

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

0.5

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Seminars in Spine Surgery is listed at $2,350. The publisher also lists 2,200 EUR, 1,880 GBP, 291,470 JPY. No waiver policy is recorded in our sources, which does not mean none exists. Ask.

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Seminars in Spine Surgery, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has fallen 6% since 2019, from $2,500 to $2,350.

$0$1.3k$2.5k2019: $2,50020192020: $2,50020202021: $2,50020212022: $2,50020222023: $2,28020232024: $2,28020242025: $2,3502025

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelNot reported
LicenceNot reported
Author keeps copyrightNot reported
Plagiarism screeningNot reported
Editorial boardNot linked in DOAJ
LanguagesNot 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.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredNo declared model found in DOAJ.
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2025.

Scope

The subjects Seminars in Spine Surgery publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Spine and Intervertebral Disc PathologySpinal Fractures and Fixation TechniquesScoliosis diagnosis and treatmentCervical and Thoracic MyelopathyMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesPelvic and Acetabular InjuriesSpinal Dysraphism and MalformationsAnesthesia and Pain ManagementMedical Imaging and Analysis

Publication record

Indexed articles1,256
Total citations3,183
i10-index74
Most recent indexed article2025
All ISSNs1040-7383, 1558-4496

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.