The top 10 journals contributing cervical spine literature with mean ± SD bibliometric values.
| Journal/Collection Title | Articles, % (n) | Altmetric Score | News Mentions | Policy Mentions | Patent Mentions | Twitter Mentions | Facebook Mentions | Number of Mendeley Readers | Number of Dimensions Citations |
| Spine | 12.3% (637) | 8.8 ± 65.5 | 0.7 ± 4.8 | 0.0 ± 0.2 | 0.0 ± 0.2 | 5.8 ± 56.6 | 0.6 ± 5.8 | 30.0 ± 24.5 | 20.2 ± 25.2 |
| European Spine Journal | 7.7% (398) | 2.4 ± 6.2 | 0.1 ± 0.8 | 0.0 ± 0.1 | 0.0 ± 0.1 | 2.3 ± 4.4 | 0.5 ± 1.9 | 23.6 ± 22.9 | 11.2 ± 15.6 |
| The Spine Journal | 6.7% (348) | 4.9 ± 22.4 | 0.4 ± 2.7 | 0.0 ± 0.1 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 3.9 ± 13.8 | 0.2 ± 0.9 | 24.8 ± 31.7 | 9.9 ± 17.6 |
| Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine | 4.6% (239) | 11.3 ± 53.4 | 1.1 ± 7.2 | 0.0 ± 0.2 | 0.1 ± 1.9 | 6.3 ± 10.5 | 0.8 ± 1.4 | 28.0 ± 29.1 | 17.8 ± 33.0 |
| Global Spine Journal | 3.1% (161) | 2.4 ± 2.5 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 3.8 ± 5.2 | 0.4 ± 0.9 | 17.5 ± 17.2 | 6.4 ± 8.5 |
| Clinical Spine Surgery | 2.8% (144) | 3.0 ± 3.4 | 0.2 ± 0.5 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 3.0 ± 2.1 | 0.6 ± 0.8 | 13.7 ± 13.4 | 5.6 ± 8.4 |
| Contemporary Spine Surgery | 0.6% (32) | 1.0 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 2.0 ± 0.9 | 1.1 ± 1.0 | 1.4 ± 2.6 | 0.3 ± 1.1 |
| Asian Spine Journal | 0.5% (25) | 1.6 ± 2.4 | 0.1 ± 0.3 | 0.0 ± 0.2 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.6 ± 1.2 | 0.2 ± 0.5 | 14.5 ± 14.9 | 7.2 ± 8.1 |
| Journal of Manipulative & Physiological | 0.5% (25) | 5.8 ± 10.1 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 5.7 ± 10.8 | 2.9 ± 8.3 | 61.3 ± 58.4 | 9.8 ± 12.8 |
| World Neurosurgery | 0.5% (25) | 1.5 ± 1.9 | 0.1 ± 0.3 | 0.0 ± 0.2 | 0.0 ± 0.0 | 0.9 ± 0.9 | 0.1 ± 0.4 | 18.0 ± 14.8 | 8.6 ± 14.3 |
| Overall | 100% (3712) | 5.5 ± 35.3 | 0.3 ± 3.3 | 0.0 ± 0.2 | 0.0 ± 0.5 | 4.4 ± 26.9 | 0.5 ± 2.9 | 24.5 ± 32.5 | 10.5 ± 18.9 |