The International Journal of Spine Surgery (IJSS) wishes to acknowledge and thank all of
our peer reviewers in 2021. There were 448 manuscripts submitted and 953 reviews …

Peer review is the heart and soul of the scientific quality which this journal aims to ensure
and constantly increase. Scientific research is 100% dependent on peer review. It is the key …

Purpose The SRS annual meeting (SRS-AM) represents the pinnacle of research in the field
of spinal deformity. Spine surgery research was historically based on single-surgeon …

spine articles discussing medical protocols or patient management garnered an average
of1. 6 times as many citations as spine studies that explored other topics. A journal s impact …

Occasionally, our managing editor gets emails from authors who have submitted
manuscripts to Global Spine Journal and are unhappy about having their work rejected. All …

In 2021, EBSJ will introduce a new evidence-based summary tool to assist spine surgeons
in their clinical decision making, the Spine Treatment Appraisal Report (STAR). The purpose …

BACKGROUND Spine surgery is evolving and in the due course of its evolution, it is useful
to have a comprehensive summary of the process to have a greater understanding to refine …

Joint Surgery (ABJS) journal on December 2013, we have tried to have a steady
improvement and promotion in both quantity and quality of published articles. We made a …

On June 11th, the Editorial Board Meeting of European Spine Journal was held in Antwerp,
Belgium. It was an interesting moment to analyze the past year and to plan the future of the …

Background Spine-related research continues to evolve rapidly and in the paradigm of
increasing data, evidence-based practice becomes imperative. Citation-based rankings are …