Clinical Spine Surgery

Clinical Spine Surgery is a peer-reviewed journal of spinal disorders published by Wolters Kluwer Health under the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins imprint, written for the practising spine surgeon and for trainees in orthopaedic and neurological surgery.《临床脊柱外科》是 Wolters Kluwer Health 以 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 品牌出版的脊柱疾患同行评审期刊，读者对象为执业脊柱外科医生，也面向骨科与神经外科的受训医师。

The title descends from the Journal of Spinal Disorders, founded in 1988, and took its present name in 2016, when volume 29 opened and ten issues a year became the pattern.该刊前身为 1988 年创刊的《脊柱疾患杂志》，2016 年启用现名，当年以第 29 卷开卷，每年 10 期成为定例。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9 and the five-year value is also 1.9, which places the journal in the third quartile of orthopaedics and of clinical neurology.其 2025 年影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子同为 1.9，在骨科与临床神经病学两个类目均处第三四分位。

Scope

• The stated purpose is to serve the busy practising spine surgeon and the trainee as the single journal needed to follow new clinical research and new operative technique.刊物自述的宗旨是服务繁忙的执业脊柱外科医生与受训医师，用一份期刊跟进新的临床研究与新的手术技术。
• It calls itself a single source for up-to-date, evidence-based recommendations for spine care, and that phrase sets the tone for the whole remit.刊物把自己称作脊柱诊疗循证建议的单一信息来源，这一表述定下了全部收稿范围的基调。
• Primary research is weighted towards level 1, level 2 and level 3 clinical studies, on the argument that work able to change operative practice deserves a visible home.原创研究偏重证据等级 1 级至 3 级的临床研究，理由是足以改变手术实践的成果应当有醒目的发表渠道。
• Every surgical technique paper carries a video, so the operative sequence can be watched rather than inferred from a figure legend.每篇手术技术论文都配有视频，术式流程因此可以直接观看，不必依靠图注去推断。
• A tips and tricks section rehearses the steps of a complex procedure before the surgeon meets it in theatre, with the emphasis on pitfalls rather than on theory.「要点与技巧」栏目在复杂手术上台之前重演其步骤，重点放在易犯的错误，理论铺陈居次。
• The controversies section invites recognised leaders to argue opposite sides of an unresolved question, and the opposing pieces are published as a pair.「争鸣」栏目邀请公认的领军人物就未决问题各执一端，观点相左的文章成对刊出。
• A systematic reviews section offers evidence-based appraisal of important pathologies, with search strategy, risk of bias and pooled estimates reported in full.「系统综述」栏目对重要病种作循证评估，检索策略、偏倚风险与合并估计值都完整报告。
• Narrative reviews sit beside the systematic ones and are handled by a deputy editor of their own, which keeps discursive overviews from being judged by pooled-effect standards.叙述性综述与系统综述并列，由专门的副编辑负责，综述性梳理因此不必用合并效应的标准去评判。
• One recurring article in each issue explains how to read a statistical method that is spreading through the spine literature, from mixed models to propensity matching.每期有一篇文章讲解如何阅读正在脊柱文献中扩散的统计方法，从混合模型谈到倾向性匹配。
• A short piece on the business of health care addresses practice economics, a deliberate concession to readers who run clinics as well as operating lists.一篇讨论医疗业务的短文关注执业经济问题，这是对既要出门诊又要排手术的读者的有意照顾。
• The cervical spine has editors of its own, covering disc arthroplasty, myelopathy and radiculopathy as well as the complications that follow anterior and posterior approaches.颈椎设有专属编辑，覆盖椎间盘置换、脊髓型与神经根型病变，以及前后路手术后的并发症。
• Lumbar fusion occupies much of the flow, with papers comparing robotic, navigational and freehand instrumentation and reporting screw accuracy, operating time and radiation dose.腰椎融合占据相当大的篇幅，论文比较机器人、导航与徒手置钉，报告螺钉准确率、手术时间与辐射剂量。
• Deformity work appears through spinopelvic alignment, sagittal balance and the correction of adult curves, a strand visible in the deformity surgeons on the board.畸形方向的研究围绕脊柱骨盆对线与矢状面平衡展开，也涉及成人侧弯的矫形，编委中的畸形专家使这条线索清晰可见。
• Trauma papers range from atlantoaxial injuries and ballistic wounds to cervical fracture management, and they sit alongside outcome studies on return to sport and return to work.创伤论文从寰枢椎损伤与弹道伤延伸到颈椎骨折的处理，并与重返运动及重返工作的结局研究并列。
• Measurement studies recur, with interobserver and intraobserver reliability of classification and of screw placement grading reported as ends in themselves.测量类研究反复出现，分型与置钉分级的观察者间及观察者内信度被当作独立目标来报告。

History

• The journal began in 1988 as the Journal of Spinal Disorders, a title that ran for fourteen volumes and fixed the clinical, outcome-oriented character its successors kept.该刊 1988 年以《脊柱疾患杂志》创刊，这一题名延续 14 卷，确立了后继题名一直保留的临床与结局导向。
• In 2002 the name changed to Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques, and the added word marked a shift towards operative method and instrumentation.2002 年题名改为《脊柱疾患与技术杂志》，新增的技术二字标志着重心移向手术方法与内固定器械。
• Volume numbering ran on without a break, so the first volume under the new name was volume 15 rather than volume 1.卷号一路连续，新题名下的首卷是第 15 卷，没有重新从第 1 卷起算。
• The present title arrived in 2016, and the National Library of Medicine records volume 29, number 1, dated February 2016, as the first issue indexed under Clinical Spine Surgery.现名于 2016 年启用，美国国家医学图书馆把 2016 年 2 月的第 29 卷第 1 期记作以《临床脊柱外科》之名收录的首期。
• The arithmetic holds across the whole run, with volume 37 falling in 2024, volume 38 in 2025 and volume 39 in 2026, which leaves 1988 as volume 1.整条卷序前后自洽，第 37 卷属 2024 年，第 38 卷属 2025 年，第 39 卷属 2026 年，1988 年因此正是第 1 卷。
• The imprint sits at Hagerstown, Maryland, and the publisher of record is Wolters Kluwer, which carries the title through its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins division.出版地登记在马里兰州的 Hagerstown，登记出版方为 Wolters Kluwer，该刊经由其 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 部门运营。
• Ten issues appear each year, and the October 2026 issue is volume 39, number 8, so the annual rhythm is settled rather than experimental.每年出版 10 期，2026 年 10 月号是第 39 卷第 8 期，年度节奏至此已经稳定。
• MEDLINE has indexed the journal in full from volume 29 onward, and PubMed carries the same coverage, so clinical readers meet the papers through the same channel as the journal's own site.MEDLINE 自第 29 卷起全文收录该刊，PubMed 的覆盖范围相同，临床读者与刊站读者看到的是同一批论文。
• Crossref holds 2,113 DOIs under the current ISSN, of which 1,497 belong to the backfile accumulated before the present deposit regime.Crossref 在现行 ISSN 下登记 2,113 个 DOI，其中 1,497 个属于现行存缴制度之前累积的过刊。
• Access remains subscription based, and the gold open access share stood at 6.92 per cent in the 2025 Journal Citation Reports, so most papers still sit behind a licence.该刊仍以订阅制为主，2025 年期刊引证报告中的金色开放获取比例为 6.92%，多数论文仍需许可才能阅读。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, level with the five-year figure, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.61 and a cited half-life of 5.8 years.2025 年影响因子为 1.9，与五年影响因子持平，期刊引文指标为 0.61，被引半衰期为 5.8 年。
• About 157 articles were counted for the year, drawing 3,124 citations, and the title ranks 74th of 147 in orthopaedics and 201st of 296 in clinical neurology.该年度计入论文约 157 篇，获得 3,124 次引用，在骨科 147 种期刊中列第 74 位，在临床神经病学 296 种期刊中列第 201 位。
• The online address still runs through the legacy jspinaldisorders path at Lippincott, which OpenAlex continues to list as the homepage, and Ovid files the title under the same code.线上地址仍沿用 Lippincott 站内的旧路径（jspinaldisorders），OpenAlex 至今把它列为刊物主页，Ovid 也用同一代码收录该刊。
• Older volumes are sold as a backfile rather than as open content, and the pre-2016 series is usually reached through the Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques records.早年卷期以过刊形式销售，并不作为开放内容提供，2016 年之前的系列通常要经由《脊柱疾患与技术杂志》的记录才能查到。

Editors

• Gregory D. Schroeder, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, is editor in chief.主编为费城托马斯杰斐逊大学与 Rothman Institute 的骨科副教授（Gregory D. Schroeder）。
• Sixteen deputy editors share the load, each attached to a named remit, and the roster reads as a map of the journal's sections rather than as an honorary list.16 位副编辑分担评审，每人对应一项具名职责，名单读起来像刊物栏目的地图，荣誉性名册的意味很淡。
• Primary research is the largest remit, held in part by Mohamed M. Ali in Riyadh and Sebastian F. Bigdon in Bern and in part by Donald Ray Fredericks in Bethesda and Andrei Fernandes Joaquim in Campinas.原创研究是最大的职责板块，利雅得的（Mohamed M. Ali）与伯尔尼的（Sebastian F. Bigdon）负责一部分，贝塞斯达的（Donald Ray Fredericks）与坎皮纳斯的（Andrei Fernandes Joaquim）负责另一部分。
• A Philadelphia cluster covers much of what remains, with Brian A. Karamian and Mark J. Lambrechts on primary research, Yunsoo Lee working in the same city and Taylor Paziuk in Duluth.费城一地的副编辑承担了余下的大部分工作，（Brian A. Karamian）与（Mark J. Lambrechts）负责原创研究，（Yunsoo Lee）同在费城，（Taylor Paziuk）则在明尼苏达州的德卢斯。
• Anand H. Segar, trained in Auckland and at Oxford, handles primary research from New York, which keeps an antipodean and Commonwealth submission stream inside one review queue.（Anand H. Segar）受训于奥克兰与牛津，在纽约负责原创研究，南半球与英联邦的投稿因此进入同一条评审队列。
• Jose A. Canseco holds the systematic reviews and meta-analyses remit, which puts the appraisal of pooled evidence under a single editor rather than a committee.系统综述与荟萃分析由（Jose A. Canseco）负责，合并证据的评估因此归口一位编辑，没有交给委员会分担。
• David S. Casper reads narrative reviews, a post that exists because discursive synthesis and meta-analysis need different standards of evidence.叙述性综述由（David S. Casper）处理，设立这一岗位的原因是叙述性综合与荟萃分析需要不同的证据标准。
• Christopher K. Kepler, who holds an MBA as well as a medical degree, oversees research methodology and the recurring methods article.（Christopher K. Kepler）兼有医学学位与工商管理硕士学位，负责研究方法学与每期的方法学文章。
• The cervical spine has two deputies, Sheeraz Qureshi in New York and Jason W. Savage in Cleveland, so cervical submissions reach a specialist reader quickly.颈椎方向有两位副编辑，分别是纽约的（Sheeraz Qureshi）与克利夫兰的（Jason W. Savage），颈椎稿件因此能较快送到专门读者手中。
• Kartik Shenoy takes surgical techniques and Scott C. Wagner takes controversies, the two sections where video and argument carry the content.手术技术归（Kartik Shenoy），争鸣栏目归（Scott C. Wagner），视频与论辩撑起这两个栏目的内容。
• The editorial board itself runs to roughly a hundred names, drawn mostly from North America, with others in Switzerland and France and further members in Brazil and Japan.编委会本身约有 100 位成员，多数来自北美，其余分布在瑞士与法国，也在巴西与日本任职。
• Senior figures on that board include Todd Albert and Edward C. Benzel, and also Michael G. Fehlings and Ziya L. Gokaslan, with Lawrence Lenke, Praveen V. Mummaneni and Jeffrey Wang in the same group.编委中的资深人物包括（Todd Albert）与（Edward C. Benzel），也包括（Michael G. Fehlings）与（Ziya L. Gokaslan），还有（Lawrence Lenke）、（Praveen V. Mummaneni）与（Jeffrey Wang）。
• Keith Luk from Hong Kong, Munehito Yoshida and Toshitaka Yoshii from Japan and Jean-Charles LeHuec from France anchor the board in Pacific Asia and continental Europe.香港的（Keith Luk）、日本的（Munehito Yoshida）与（Toshitaka Yoshii），以及法国的（Jean-Charles LeHuec），构成编委会在亚太与欧洲大陆的支点。
• Manuscripts arrive through Editorial Manager, and the journal asks authors to read its submission instructions on that site before loading a file.稿件通过 Editorial Manager 提交，刊物要求作者先在该站阅读投稿须知，再上传文件。
• The deputy cohort clusters in Philadelphia, where many share the Rothman and Jefferson address, while the wider board stays international.副编辑群体集中在费城，多数人同用 Rothman Institute 与杰斐逊大学的地址，更大的编委会则保持国际化。