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Brain and Spine — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Brain and Spine is 2.7 (quartile not confirmed; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 2.7 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Neurosurgery
- Quartile
- quartile not confirmed
- Publisher
- Elsevier (EANS / EUROSPINE)
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- sciencedirect.com
Position within the field
Ranked 14 of the 31 journals in Neurosurgery on this site (top 50%).
Neurosurgery journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Neurosurgical Focus IF 3.0
- Neuroradiology IF 2.8
- World Neurosurgery: X IF 2.5
- Neurosurgical Review IF 2.5
- Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology IF 2.4
- Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery IF 2.4
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of Brain and Spine (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 2.7. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Neurosurgery.