The Spine Journal was recently ranked top among spine journals and third among 63 other orthopedic-focused journals in the world.
The Spine Journal, the journal of the North American Spine Society, reported 3.355 as the impact factor in 2012, a jump from 3.290 in 2011. The impact factor is based on the frequency of citations from the journal in peer-reviewed literature over a two-year period.
"Our goal each month is to provide our readers with unbiased, transparent and accurate science so they can offer the best care to their patients," said Editor-in-chief Eugene J. Carragee, MD, of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Redwood City, Calif., in a NASS news release. "We are pleased to see that so many researchers turn to our journal for trustworthy scientific data on the very latest in spine care and research for their own studies."
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