Journal profile · Medicine-Medicine (miscellaneous)
Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique
ISSN 2508-2043 · Korean Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Society · Korea, Republic of
Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique: impact factor 0.7 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 69 days to acceptance (80 articles, last 24 months); 84 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique is published by Korean Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Society. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy and Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques, together about 67.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery & Technique (JMISST) is the official journal of the Korean Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Society (KOMISS), Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeons Association of Bharat (MISSAB), Taiwan Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (TSMISS), Taiwan Society of Endoscopic Spine Society (TSESS), Brazilian Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Society (BRAMISS), Latinamerican Endoscopic Spine Surgery Society (LESSS), Spanish Endoscopic and Percutaneous Spine Surgery Society (SECPEC), Malaysia Society of Endoscopic Spine Surgery (MSESS), and Thai Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Techniques (ThaiMISST) for the publication of research results about minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS). JMISST will consider submissions in areas of endoscopic spinal surgery, minimally invasive procedure for degenerative spine disease, pain intervention, minimally invasive surgery for spinal fusion or spine trauma, neuroscience, neurology, molecular biology and biomechanics etc. JMISST provides spine physicians and researchers with peer-reviewed articles on minimally invasive spine surgery to improve patient treatment, education, clinical or experimental research, and professionalism. In particular, minimally invasive spine surgery, including endoscopic spinal surgery, will be the most important field in the future spinal treatment. JMISST is the only journal in the world that is currently focused on minimally invasive spine surgery. We aim to lead the field of minimally invasive spine surgery to be developed in the future, and will contribute to providing a happy life for humans based on academic development.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Medicine (miscellaneous)
Editor-in-chief Jong TaePublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 2%); most named South Korea 45, Taiwan, China 9, India 9, Germany 6, Spain 6 (105 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc PathologyMedicine31.7%
- Cervical and Thoracic MyelopathyMedicine18.2%
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation TechniquesMedicine17.7%
- Spinal Hematomas and ComplicationsMedicine4.7%
- Anesthesia and Pain ManagementMedicine4.5%
- Medical Imaging and AnalysisEngineering4.4%
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatmentMedicine4.3%
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationMedicine3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Index MedicusPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.26LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.33LetPub ·
- h-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.92OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 14.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 78LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 401 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 72 | 72 | 44 |
| 2025 | 84 | 84 | 73 |
| 2024 | 60 | 60 | 82 |
| 2023 | 44 | 44 | 121 |
| 2022 | 37 | 37 | 73 |
| 2021 | 35 | 35 | 147 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
69 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 50 days – 105 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 82 days (80 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 162 days
- Sample
- 80 articles with submission and acceptance dates (173 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 15 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 15 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- 2–6
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted14, with length limits
- case reports3,000 English words for technical reports and case reportsLength not stated
- editorial• Original Articles should be composed of no more than 6,000 words, excluding the references, tables, and figures, and organized in the order of title, abstract…Length not stated
- letters to the editorIt should be composed of no more than 600 English words for letters to the editor.Length not stated
- meta-analysesMeta-Analyses are systematic, critical assessments of the literature and data sources pertaining to clinical topics, emphasizing factors such as the cause, diag…Length not stated
- meta-analysis• Original Articles should be composed of no more than 6,000 words, excluding the references, tables, and figures, and organized in the order of title, abstract…Length not stated
- original article• Original Articles should be composed of no more than 6,000 words, excluding the references, tables, and figures, and organized in the order of title, abstract…main text ≤ 6,000 words
- original articlesOriginal Articles should be composed of no more than 6,000 words, excluding the references, tables, and figures, and organized in the order of title, abstract, …Length not stated
- review• Original Articles should be composed of no more than 6,000 words, excluding the references, tables, and figures, and organized in the order of title, abstract…Length not stated
- review article• Original Articles should be composed of no more than 6,000 words, excluding the references, tables, and figures, and organized in the order of title, abstract…Length not stated
- review articlesReview Articles are reserved for important subjects relevant to the field of minimally invasive spine surgery that is selected by the Editorial Committee.Length not stated
- special issueSpecial Issue JMISST’s regular publication is conducted twice a year, in April and October, and when there is a special issue related to the topic, a special is…Length not stated
- systematic review• Original Articles should be composed of no more than 6,000 words, excluding the references, tables, and figures, and organized in the order of title, abstract…Length not stated
- systematic reviewsSystematic Reviews are critical assessments of the literature and data sources pertaining to clinical topics, emphasizing factors such as the cause, diagnosis, …Length not stated
- technical reports3,000 English words for technical reports and case reportsLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Self-archiving
- Authorship 3. Authorship and Contributorship
Authors are required to clearly state their contributions to a manuscript in the cover letter. To be listed as an author, one should have contributed substantially to all four categories established by the ICMJE: (1) conception and design, or acquisition, or analysis and interpretation of data; (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; (3) final approva…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest 2. Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest exists when an author or the author’s institution, reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence or bias his or her actions. Such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties. These relationships vary from being negligible to having a great potential for influencing judgment. Not al…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability 10. Policies on Data Sharing and Reproducibility
JMISST encourages data sharing wherever possible, unless this is prevented by ethical, privacy, or confidentiality matters. Authors wishing to do so may deposit their data in a publicly accessible repository and include a link to the DOI within the text of the manuscript. For example, “Data sharing: The data analyzed for this study have been deposited in Harvard Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvar…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright 1. Copyright Policy
All published papers become the permanent property of the Korean Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Society. Copyrights of all published materials are owned by the Korean Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Society. Permission must be obtained from the Korean Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Society for any commercial use of materials. Every author must sign the copyright transfer agreement forms.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access 2. Open Access
Open access under CC BY-NC 4.0 Model summary
All articles published in JMISST will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review PEER REVIEW AND PUBLICATION PROCESS
Submitted manuscripts are reviewed by the Editorial Committee and accepted articles will be published in JMISST. (1) Manuscripts to be reviewed: all submitted manuscripts are peer reviewed. (2) Who conducts peer review: Peer review is conducted by at least two external experts. (3) Type of peer review: a double-blind peer review. The author and reviewer cannot identify each other. The names of rev…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism 5. Redundant Publication and Plagiarism
A redundant publication is defined as “reporting (publishing or attempting to publish) substantially the same work more than once, without attribution of the original source(s).” The characteristics of reports that are substantially similar include the following: (1) “at least one of the authors must be common to all reports (if there are no common authors, it is more likely plagiarism than redund…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Archived in the National Library of Korea Model summary
The full text of JMISST has been archived in the National Library of Korea (https://www.nl.go.kr) in the event the journal is no longer published.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Self-archiving: no preprints; postprints and publisher version allowed Model summary
According to the deposit policy (self-archiving policy) of Sherpa/Romeo (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/), authors cannot archive preprints (i.e., prerefereeing), but they can archive postprints (i.e., the final draft postrefereeing). Authors can archive the publisher’s version/PDF.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Korean Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Society
- Country or region
- Korea, Republic of
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2508-2043
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 11 (July 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique
What is the impact factor of Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.7; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.9, h-index 9.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique?
Based on the dates recorded on 80 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 69 days (interquartile range 50–105 days); authors report an average review time of about 15 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: 2–6; Reference style: Vancouver; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique based?
Of the 105 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are South Korea (45), Taiwan, China (9) and India (9). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .