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Reviewer of the Month (2025)

In 2025, JSS reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2025)

In 2025, many JSS authors make outstanding contributions to our journal. Their articles published with us have received very well feedback in the field and stimulate a lot of discussions and new insights among the peers.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields, with a brief interview of their unique perspective and insightful view as authors.

JSS Annual Report 2024

We are pleased to present the 2024 Annual Report of Journal of Spine Surgery. Highlights from this year’s report include:

JSS has published 78 manuscripts, among which there are 43 Original Articles, 11 Review Articles. The pageviews of JSS have increased steadily, with a total of 351,157 hits.

We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to our editorial board members, guest editors, reviewers, authors and readers, and we look forward to continuing our work with you in the new year.

Interviews with Editorial Board Members

JSS features a distinguished editorial board, the members of which continue to instill the power of their expertise for the journal’s development. By launching this column, we are glad to introduce to you some of them in the form of interviews, in which they will share their unique career experiences and perspectives. We believe their insights will shed light on the knowledge of related fields.

Journal of Spine Surgery 2023 CiteScore Released: 5.6

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Spine Surgery (JSS) has received its 2023 CiteScore: 5.6, ranking 58 out of 551 journals in the Surgery category.

Furthermore, we are delighted to highlight the remarkable achievements made by all AME journals in the CiteScore ranking.

Journal of Spine Surgery (JSS) is now a member of the Surgery Journal Editors Group (SJEG)

Beginning in September 2022, the Journal of Spine Surgery (JSS) adopted the Surgery Journal Editors Group (SJEG) joint statement and pledges to "strive for diversity in the peer review process and among the editorial boards and editorial leaders."

Journal of Spine Surgery (JSS) is now a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Starting from July 2021, AME Publishing Company is formally recognized a publisher member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and over 60 AME-published journals become a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as part of AME’s commitment to best practice in scholarly publishing. Journal of Spine Surgery (JSS) is among the list of COPE membership.

AME entered an official partnership with Publons to enhance wide-ranging recognition for reviewers

AME Publishing Company entered an official partnership with Publons, a product of Clarivate Analytic Company (which owns Web of Science, EndNote, ScholarOne, among many others), as of April 2020. Around 60 AME journals’ peer review systems are now integrated seamlessly into the Publons platform (https://publons.com/about/home). The partnership was done to recognize our expert peer reviewers spontaneously for their review contribution.

Implementation of transparent peer review at Journal of Spine Surgery (JSS)

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to JSS from June 01, 2020.

Application of the CARE Guideline as reporting standard in the Journal of Spine Surgery

The Journal of Spine Surgery welcomes case reports which are supposed to report new observations of diseases, clinical findings or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practitioners in the fields of medicine.

For completeness and transparency for published case reports, the Journal of Spine Surgery will apply the CARE guidelines (1) as reporting standards for case reports starting from October 16, 2019. For any submission of case report after the date:

Welcome to Journal of Spine Surgery (JSS)

Welcome to Journal of Spine Surgery (JSS), an Open-Access journal devoted to exploring many contemporary issues affecting spine surgery, patient care and the basic sciences that form the foundation of surgical management. The Journal of Spine Surgery is intended to be an international spine journal with an Australasian platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences, new findings and developments in the treatment and outcomes of spinal care.

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Original Article

A single straight expandable cage via a hybrid posterior-transforaminal approach with rhBMP-2 or allograft provides high fusion rates with low risk of subsidence

Charlie Faulks, Kaiwen Cabbabe, Dean T. Biddau, Nigel R. Munday, Gregory M. Malham

PDF Pages: 1-14 Full Text (634) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Establishment of the prone transpsoas fusion surgery in Australia—a survey and analysis of major complications in early adopters

Vijidha Shree Rajkumar, Brian Owler, Bryden Dawes, Idrees Sher, Yi Yuen Wang

PDF Pages: 15-23 Full Text (436) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Comparison of outcomes in open and full endoscopic lumbar discectomies for treating lumbar radiculopathy in an Australian cohort

Jeremy Rajadurai, Houchen Gong, Shanu Gambhir, Yingda Li

PDF Pages: 24-32 Full Text (495) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Rate of fusion using novel synthetic bone graft mixed with cellular allograft product in lumbar fusions

Samuel Bartrom, Micah Smith

PDF Pages: 33-44 Full Text (616) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The utilization of percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy in recurrent lumbar disc herniation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Saiganesh Ravikumar, Aaron Bloschichak, Sanjeev Kumar

PDF Pages: 45-64 Full Text (735) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The impact of patient-specific spine rods on spinopelvic parameters after short segment degenerative lumbar fusions

Katherine Drexelius, Eren O. Kuris, Anna Sater, Evalina L. Burger, David C. Ou-Yang, Vikas V. Patel, Christopher J. Kleck

PDF Pages: 65-73 Full Text (526) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Microscopically-assisted Uninstrumented Surgical Tumor Decompression as an alternative to open surgery for symptomatic metastatic epidural spinal cord compression

Camryn E. Harvie, Richard J. Chung, Sriyaa Suresh, John C. O’Donnell, Alexander J. Schupper, Arthur L. Jenkins III

PDF Pages: 74-87 Full Text (581) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

A comparative biomechanical study of a non-threaded triangular titanium implant versus a fully threaded screw: assessing pullout strength of two sacroiliac joint fixation implant designs

Kingsley R. Chin, Erik Spayde, William M. Costigan, Vito Lore, Hope Estevez, Chukwunonso C. Ilogu, Jason A. Seale

PDF Pages: 88-95 Full Text (594) Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

A new minimally invasive cervical pedicle screw (CPS) fixation system using intra-operative computed tomography-guided navigation

Christian Blume, Tobias Philip Schmidt, Christian-Andreas Mueller, Alexander Romagna, Miguel Pishnamaz, Hans Clusmann, Ulf Bertram

PDF Pages: 96-103 Full Text (379) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

A safe and reproducible anterior column restoration technique for Kümmell’s disease: transpedicular bone packing

Chul Gie Hong, Woo Dong Nam, Jinwon Jang

PDF Pages: 104-113 Full Text (291) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

A Canadian national survey of the medical management of acute traumatic spinal cord injury

Mohamed Alhantoobi, Nadeen AlKhoori, Amanda Martyniuk, Markian Pahuta, Desmond Kwok, Sunjay Sharma, Daipayan Guha

PDF Pages: 114-124 Full Text (337) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Surgical Technique

Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for scoliosis: surgical technique for focal treatment of the lumbosacral fractional curve

Andrew K. Chan, Pavan S. Upadhyayula, Anthony J. Tang, Dean Chou

PDF Pages: 125-134 Full Text (Video) (526) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Review Article

The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) levels predicting the surgical site infection in spinal surgery: a systematic review

Maryam Salimi, Seyedarad Mosalamiaghili, Asma Mafhoumi, Muhammad Riaz

PDF Pages: 135-147 Full Text (541) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The modern application of anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF): a narrative review of perioperative considerations and surgical pearls

Monty Khela, Obiajulu Agha, Andrew Sawires, Lionel Metz

PDF Pages: 148-165 Full Text (960) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The legal and socioeconomic considerations of spine telemedicine in Canada

Youngkyung Jung, Shawn Baldeo, Markian Pahuta, Sunjay Sharma, Daipayan Guha

PDF Pages: 166-177 Full Text (370) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Case Report

Percutaneous spinopelvic fixation technique using external fixation for focal kyphosis reduction in U-type sacral fractures: a case report

Monty Khela, Obiajulu Agha, Lisa Bonsignore-Opp, Mark Xu, David Gendelberg, Ashraf N. El Naga

PDF Pages: 178-190 Full Text (507) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Minimally invasive surgery lateral percutaneous sacroiliac joint fusion in a patient with radicular-type pain: case report and review of the literature

Nathan J. Winans, Bhargav Ayloo, Dean Chou, Andrew K. Chan

PDF Pages: 191-196 Full Text (410) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

A 3D navigation-guided surgical resection of a rare case of sacral spine mesenchymal chondrosarcoma: a case report

Abdulaziz Saber, Mohammed Khashab, Abdulhadi Turkistani, Moyassar Karami, Saleh Almaymoni, Mohamed Elkhalifa, Abdulhadi Algahtani, Abdullah Alhazmi

PDF Pages: 197-205 Full Text (399) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Letter to the Editor

Short-term clinical and radiographic results of expandable cages that expand both height and lordosis for minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS TLIF)

Khanathip Jitpakdee, Fabian Sommer, Edna Gouveia, Catherine Mykolajtchuk, Blake Boadi, Jessica Berger, Ibrahim Hussain, Roger Härtl

PDF Pages: 206-209 Full Text (231) COI Form Open Access

Editorial

Preface on minimally invasive techniques in spine surgery and trend toward ambulatory surgery

Cameron Kia

PDF Pages: 210-211 Full Text (202) COI Form Open Access

Contemporary innovations in spine surgery: balancing technological advancement and cost-effectiveness

Gregory M. Malham, Ralph J. Mobbs

PDF Pages: 212-215 Full Text (309) COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Lumbar interbody fusion: techniques, indications and comparison of interbody fusion options including PLIF, TLIF, MI-TLIF, OLIF/ATP, LLIF and ALIF

Ralph J. Mobbs, Kevin Phan, Greg Malham, Kevin Seex, Prashanth J. Rao

Published online: 21 November 2015

PDF Pages: 2-18 Full Text (138740) Open Access

Review Article

Surgical treatment of far lateral lumbar disc herniation: a safe and simple approach

Darweesh O. Al-Khawaja, Tamadur Mahasneh, Jonathan C. Li

Published online: 01 March 2016

PDF Pages: 21-24 Full Text (43290) Open Access

Original Study

Interspinous process spacers versus traditional decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis: systematic review and meta-analysis

Kevin Phan, Prashanth J. Rao, Jonathon R. Ball, Ralph J. Mobbs

Published online: 01 March 2016

PDF Pages: 31-40 Full Text (42382) Open Access

Review Article on Advanced Techniques in Complex Cervical Spine Surgery

Complications of anterior cervical spine surgery: a systematic review of the literature

Timothy J. Yee, Kevin Swong, Paul Park

Published online: 30 March 2020

PDF Pages: 302-322 Full Text (41870) Open Access

Review Article on Advanced Techniques in Complex Cervical Spine Surgery

Complications following posterior cervical decompression and fusion: a review of incidence, risk factors, and prevention strategies

Ryan K. Badiee, Rory Mayer, Brenton Pennicooke, Dean Chou, Praveen V. Mummaneni, Lee A. Tan

Published online: 30 March 2020

PDF Pages: 323-333 Full Text (39272) Open Access

Review Article

Anterior cervical spine surgery-associated complications in a retrospective case-control study

Anastasia Tasiou, Theofanis Giannis, Alexandros G. Brotis, Ioannis Siasios, Iordanis Georgiadis, Haralampos Gatos, Eleni Tsianaka, Konstantinos Vagkopoulos, Konstantinos Paterakis, Kostas N. Fountas

Published online: 29 September 2017

PDF Pages: 444-459 Full Text (28936) Open Access

Case Report

Far lateral microdiscectomy: a minimally-invasive surgical technique for the treatment of far lateral lumbar disc herniation

Kevin Phan, Alexander E. Dunn, Prashanth J. Rao, Ralph J. Mobbs

Published online: 01 March 2016

PDF Pages: 59-63 Full Text (Video) (26079) Open Access

Review Article

Comparison of ALIF vs. XLIF for L4/5 interbody fusion: pros, cons, and literature review

Mark J. Winder, Shanu Gambhir

Published online: 01 March 2016

PDF Pages: 2-8 Full Text (25601) Open Access

Review Article

Acute post-operative airway complications following anterior cervical spine surgery and the role for cricothyrotomy

Monika P. Debkowska, John F. Butterworth, Jaime E. Moore, Soobin Kang, Eric N. Appelbaum, Wilhelm A. Zuelzer

Published online: 22 March 2019

PDF Pages: 142-154 Full Text (24979) Open Access

Original Article

Flexion-extension standing radiographs underestimate instability in patients with single-level lumbar spondylolisthesis: comparing flexion-supine imaging may be more appropriate

Nathan J. Lee, Justin Mathew, Jun S. Kim, Joseph M. Lombardi, Andrew C. Vivas, Jay Reidler, Scott L. Zuckerman, Paul J. Park, Eric Leung, Meghan Cerpa, Mark Weidenbaum, Lawrence G. Lenke, Ronald A. Lehman, Zeeshan M. Sardar

Published online: 17 March 2021

PDF Pages: 48-54 Full Text (23454) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Original Study on Full-endoscopic Spine Surgery

Unilateral biportal endoscopic decompression for degenerative lumbar canal stenosis

Jwo-Luen Pao, Shang-Ming Lin, Wen-Chi Chen, Chih-Hung Chang

Published online: 30 June 2020

PDF Pages: 438-446 Full Text (22144) COI Form Open Access

Original Study

Surgery for spinal tuberculosis: a multi-center experience of 582 cases

Md. Shah Alam, Kevin Phan, Rezaul Karim, Sharif Ahmed Jonayed, Hasan Khalid Md. Munir, Shubhendu Chakraborty, Tashfique Alam

Published online: 21 November 2015

PDF Pages: 65-71 Full Text (21912) Open Access

Review Article

The management of scoliosis in children with cerebral palsy: a review

Thomas Cloake, Adrian Gardner

Published online: 31 December 2016

PDF Pages: 299-309 Full Text (21862) Open Access

Review of Techniques

What should my hospital buy next?—Guidelines for the acquisition and application of imaging, navigation, and robotics for spine surgery

Gregory M. Malham, Thomas Wells-Quinn

Published online: 22 March 2019

PDF Pages: 155-165 Full Text (18555) Open Access

Original Study

The incidence of new onset sacroiliac joint pain following lumbar fusion

Yu Chao Lee, Robert Lee, Clare Harman

Published online: 29 September 2019

PDF Pages: 310-314 Full Text (18354) Open Access

Review Article

Duchenne muscular dystrophy: the management of scoliosis

James E. Archer, Adrian C. Gardner, Helen P. Roper, Ashish A. Chikermane, Andrew J. Tatman

Published online: 01 September 2016

PDF Pages: 185-194 Full Text (17596) Open Access

Review Article

Platelet-rich plasma injections: an emerging therapy for chronic discogenic low back pain

Suja Mohammed, James Yu

Published online: 04 April 2018

PDF Pages: 115-122 Full Text (17593) Open Access

Review Article

Single-level selective dorsal rhizotomy for spastic cerebral palsy

David Graham, Kristian Aquilina, Stephanie Cawker, Simon Paget, Neil Wimalasundera

Published online: 01 September 2016

PDF Pages: 195-201 Full Text (16349) Open Access

Review Article

Systematic review of 3D printing in spinal surgery: the current state of play

Ben Wilcox, Ralph J. Mobbs, Ai-Min Wu, Kevin Phan

Published online: 29 September 2017

PDF Pages: 433-443 Full Text (15542) Open Access

Original Study

The outcome of pedicle screw instrumentation removal for ongoing low back pain following posterolateral lumbar fusion

Mario G. Zotti, Oscar P. Brumby-Rendell, Ben McDonald, Tom Fisher, Christovalantis Tsimiklis, Wai Weng Yoon, Orso L. Osti

Published online: 21 November 2015

PDF Pages: 50-56 Full Text (15067) Open Access

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Surgical Technique

Restoring segmental lumbar lordosis after failed previous fusion at the same level

Evgenii S. Baykov, Dmitriy M. Kozlov, Olga N. Leonova, Aleksandr V. Krutko

Published online: 12 June 2025

Case Report

The importance of stabilisation in enabling bone fusion demonstrated by successful revision of failed occipitocervical fusion using patient-specific atlantoaxial joint spacers: a case report

Alper Yataganbaba, William C. H. Parr, Jackson C. Hill, Kevin A. Seex

Published online: 10 June 2025

Original Article

Traumatic spinal cord injury in the elderly: predictors for mortality and functional outcomes

Calvin Wing Hang Chin, Barry Ting Sheen Kweh, Idrees Sher, Andrew Nunn, Boyuan Khoo, Mina Asaid, Augusto Gonzalvo

Published online: 09 June 2025

Original Article

Venous thromboembolism chemoprophylaxis is not supported following elective spine surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Aditya Muralidharan, Davin C. Gong, Anthony N. Baumann, Joshua D. Piche, Kempland C. Walley, Osama N. Kashlan, Rakesh D. Patel, Ilyas S. Aleem

Published online: 06 June 2025

Surgical Technique

Surgical treatment of unstable spondylodiscitis with posterior instrumentation and bioactive glass (BAG-S53P4): surgical technique and results at medium-term follow-up

Paolo Arrigoni, Ilaria Morelli, Stefano Puricelli, Francesca Manfroni, Domenico Prestamburgo

Published online: 06 June 2025

Original Article

Comparison of endoscopic and non-endoscopic lumbar decompression outcomes using ACS-NSQIP database 2017–2022

Adam J. Ward, Samuel Ezeonu, Tina Raman, Charla Fischer, Themistocles S. Protopsaltis, Yong H. Kim

Published online: 01 June 2025

Case Report

Microsurgical resection of an intramedullary metastasis of rare histopathology—a case report and comprehensive literature review

Felix C. Stengel, Stephan Heisinger, Natalia Vélez Char, Anand Veeravagu, Martin N. Stienen

Published online: 12 May 2025

Review Article

Anterior lumbar interbody fusion implants: a narrative review of current trends and future directions

Alfred-John Bayaton, Michael R. McDermott, Hannah J. Grimmett, Mihir Chadra, Ashish Patel

Published online: 06 May 2025

Original Article

Fusion outcomes of structural bone allograft in cervical and lumbar spine surgery: analysis of 147 patients over a decade of follow-up

Feifei Wu, Viola Bartoletti, Diletta Trojan, Giulia Montagner, Jacopo Del Verme, Roberto Zanata, Giuseppe Canova, Enrico Giordan

Published online: 28 April 2025

Original Article

Educational value of a high-definition three-dimensional extracorporeal telescope (exoscope) in lateral access spine surgery

Yong Yao Tan, Siu Kei David Mak, Ree Yi Koh, Terry Hong Lee Teo

Published online: 23 April 2025

Case Report

Combined anterior and posterior instrumented fusion for correction of severe cervical kyphotic and coronal deformity in vertebral osteomyelitis: a case report with literature review

Amanda Bingaman, Rohan V. Gupta, Srinivasa P. Kanuparthi, Bong-Soo Kim

Published online: 14 April 2025

Review Article

Preoperative optimization of obese spine patients with GLP-1 receptor agonists: enhancing surgery and improving outcomes

David Barkyoumb, Fauziyya Muhammad, Zachary A. Smith, Hakeem J. Shakir

Published online: 14 April 2025

Case Report

Contemporaneously diagnosed lumbosacral spinal subdural hematoma and cranial subdural hematoma with cerebral contusions following isolated head trauma: a case report and review of the literature

Ibrahim Nabhan, Nova Kristine de los Reyes-Nabhan, Farschad Tabesch, Andrei Slavici, Michael Rauschmann

Published online: 07 April 2025

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