Journal Information
Aims and scope of journal
Spinal Cord is a specialised, international journal that has been publishing spinal cord related manuscripts since 1963. It appears monthly, online and in print, and accepts contributions on spinal cord anatomy, physiology, management of injury and disease, and the quality of life and life circumstances of people with a spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord is multi-disciplinary and publishes contributions across the entire spectrum of research ranging from basic science to applied clinical research. It focuses on high quality original research, systematic reviews and narrative reviews.
Spinal Cord's sister journal Spinal Cord Series and Cases: Clinical Management in Spinal Cord Disorders publishes high quality case reports, small case series, pilot and retrospective studies perspectives, Pulse survey articles, Point-couterpoint articles, correspondences and book reviews. It specialises in material that addresses all aspects of life for persons with spinal cord injuries or disorders. For more information, please see the aims and scope of Spinal Cord Series and Cases.
Spinal Cord covers a range of subject areas, to read content across the scope of the journal view the journal's subjects page here.
Frequency
12 issues a year
Journal Metrics
Article metrics such as number of downloads, citations and online attention are available from each article page, and provide an overview of the attention received by a paper.
Citation Impact 2023
- Journal Impact Factor: 2.1
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.6
- Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.271
- SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.826
Speed 2023
- Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 60
- Submission to acceptance (median days): 285
Usage 2023
- Downloads: 1,517,367
- Altmetric mentions: 793
Abstracted/indexed in
BFI List
BIOSIS
Baidu
CLOCKSS
CNKI
CNPIEC
Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
Dimensions
EMBASE
EMCare
Google Scholar
Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Medline
Meta
Naver
OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
Pathway Studio
Portico
ProQuest
SCImago
SCOPUS
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
TD Net Discovery Service
UGC-CARE List (India)
Wanfang
ISSN and eISSN
International standard serial number (ISSN) for Spinal Cord: 1362-4393
Electronic international standard serial number (eISSN): 1476-5624.
Prior to volume 34 issue 4 (1996), the journal was published as Paraplegia.
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