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.

2022 Citation Metrics

2-year Impact Factor*: 2.2
5-year Impact Factor*: 2.8
Immediacy index*: 0.4
Eigenfactor® score*: 0.00508
Article influence score*: 0.7
Journal Citation Indicator*: 0.78

SNIP**: 1.359
SJR***: 0.716

*2022 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics, 2023)
**Source-normalized Impact per Paper (Scopus)
***SCImago Journal Rank (Scopus)

2023 Peer Review Metrics

Submission to first editorial decision: 62 days
Submission to Accept: 285 days

2023 Usage Metrics

Downloads: 1,517,367
Altmetric mentions: 793

Abstracted/indexed in

EBSCO Discovery Service
Google Scholar
Medline/PubMed
OCLC
SCOPUS
Summon by ProQuest
BIOSIS
Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch)
EBSCO Academic Search
EBSCO Advanced Placement Source
EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection
EBSCO CINAHL
EBSCO SPORTDiscus
EBSCO STM Source
EBSCO Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source
EBSCO TOC Premier

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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