Academic Journal
Q1Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
About Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery is a scholarly journal published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. SCImago 2025 places it in Q1 with an SJR of 1.422 and an H-index of 324.
Its listed coverage is 1946-2026 and its research categories include Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q1); Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (Q1); Sports Science (Q1); Surgery (Q1). The 2025 dataset reports 525 documents and 4002 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty, Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes, Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Bone fractures and treatments, Shoulder Injury and Treatment, Orthopedic Infections and Treatments.
Recent Research Articles
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Global Perspectives on the Care Gap in Fragility Fracture Management
Irewin Tabu, Elizabeth Armstrong, Matthew L. Costa, Frede Frihagen et al.
2026-09-04 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00940Transparency and Accountability in the Age of AI: Updated Policy for JBJS Authors
Jason Strelzow, Michelle Ghert, Stefano Alec Bini
2026-09-03 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.01081The Next Era of Orthobiologics: From Promise to Precision
Nicolas S. Piuzzi, Stuart B. Goodman
2026-09-02 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00848Changes in the Management of Periprosthetic Joint Infection Over the Past 50 Years
Armita Armina Abedi, Ghazal Pourbozorg, Michael Abdou, Amir Human Hoveidaei et al.
2026-09-02 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00650Heterogeneity of Patients’ Preferences for Bone-Anchored Prostheses After Lower-Extremity Amputation (PREFER-BAP-2)
Sarathiel-Kyrillos M. Saleib, Marcel F. Jonker, Michael H.J. Verhofstad, Maria A. Paping et al.
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.25.01426Effects of Capacity-Related Delay to Hip Fracture Surgery on Mortality
S.W. King, S.M. Wakefield, V.P. Giannoudis, S.D. Relton et al.
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00596Beyond the Fracture Clinic: 3 Things a Surgeon Can Do to Help Older Patients Stay Out of the Hospital
Christina Ziebart, George Heckman, Lora M. Giangregorio, Famida Jiwa et al.
2026-08-28 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00954Principles of Level Selection for Instrumentation in Adult Cervical Spinal Deformity Surgery
Zeeshan M. Sardar, Josephine R. Coury, Anson G. Bautista, Katherine Dong et al.
2026-08-27 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.25.01540Distal Radial Fracture as an Early Marker of Bone Fragility
Ryutaro Shibata, Yoko Sato, Yoshihiro Tanaka
2026-08-27 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.25.01269Machine Learning Models for Predicting Orthopaedic Surgical Complications
Hassan Kamal
2026-08-27 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00770The Articular Dislocation Angle of the First Metatarsophalangeal Joint
Munan Guo, Fengxiang Liu, Yaokai Gan, Fei Yang et al.
2026-08-20 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.25.00955The Surgeon-Jurist: Reclaiming Judgment in an Era of Defensive Medicine
Yogesh S. Salphale
2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00506Antibiotic-Loaded Ceramic Bone Grafts Exhibit Burst, Not Sustained, Gentamicin Release
Catrine Jyde Berthelsen, Christoph Crocoll, Michal Poborsky, Louise Kruse Jensen et al.
2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00470Revision Arthroplasty in the Ambulatory Setting
Ahmed Siddiqi, Khalid M. Yousuf, Paul B. Jacob
2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00502Movement Matters
Patrice A. Federspiel
2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00944They Built Their Lives with Their Bodies
Prabhjot Singh
2026-08-13 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00856Simplicity Meets Utility: The SCARE Score in Pediatric Spinal Deformity Surgery
Lei Jiang, Reuben C.C. Soh
2026-08-13 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00420Epistemic Asymmetry Between Abstracts and Discussion Sections in the Orthopaedic Literature
Rob Parisien
2026-08-13 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00433To Repair or Not to Repair . . . That Is the Question
Thomas R. Duquin, Ryan Riley
2026-08-10 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00444Using Frailty and Surgical Invasiveness Scores in Patients with Pediatric Spinal Deformity
Walter H. Truong
2026-08-10 · DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.26.00528Reviews
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