thejns.org

thejns.org is the home site of the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG), which publishes peer-reviewed neurosurgical journals. You would use it to browse or search published neurosurgical research, read just-published articles, follow curated collections, or find subscription, author, and librarian resources. Access to full articles is tied to a subscription or sign-in, so treat it as a publisher platform rather than an open reading site.

What the site publishes

The site hosts a family of journals under the JNSPG umbrella:

• Journal of Neurosurgery
• Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine
• Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics
• Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons
• Neurosurgical Focus
• Neurosurgical Focus: Video

These are peer-reviewed titles covering clinical and research work in neurosurgery and its subspecialties.

What you can do on the site

• Read just-published articles. The "Just Published" area surfaces new papers with author lists, a plain-language "In Brief" summary, publication dates, and DOI links.
• Browse collections. Curated groupings include a Journal Club, COVID-19 material, and topic sets such as the Leksell Top 25 lists (meningioma, vestibular schwannoma, and others), deep brain stimulation, Parkinson disease top-cited articles, and "Best of" year collections.
• Search. An advanced search and help section support finding specific articles.
• Use author and librarian resources. Dedicated sections cover information for authors submitting work and for librarians managing access.
• Subscribe. Individual and institutional subscription options are listed, along with a separate path for AANS member subscriptions.

Example of what a listing shows

A just-published entry typically includes the article title, the journal it appears in, the author names, a short "In Brief" summary of the findings, the publication date, and a DOI link. For instance, a Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine entry on spinal cord injury trends lists its authors, summarizes the 1990–2023 analysis, gives a publication date, and provides a DOI — enough to judge relevance before pursuing the full text.

Practical notes

• Full-text access generally requires a subscription or sign-in; the site shows "Sign in" and "Sign up" options alongside subscription information.
• The site also notes an Oxford University Press partnership and a JNSPG shop, and includes sections on publishing policies, editorial boards, permissions, and job seekers.

If your goal is to read neurosurgical literature, check whether your institution already holds a subscription before paying for individual access, and use the DOI links to locate articles through a library if you have one.

Subscriptions to the Journal of Neurosurgery (JNS) family of publications are handled through the Subscribe page at thejns.org/page/subscriptions/subscription-information. The site organizes access into three paths: individual subscriptions, institutional subscriptions, and a separate AANS member route. Which one applies to you depends on whether you are paying personally, accessing through a library or hospital, or holding membership in the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

What you can subscribe to

The JNS Publishing Group (JNSPG) publishes several titles under the JNS umbrella. The site's navigation lists them as distinct journals:

• Journal of Neurosurgery
• Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine
• Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics
• Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons
• Neurosurgical Focus
• Neurosurgical Focus: Video

Subscription terms, bundled access, and pricing are not stated on the pages captured here, so treat the list above as the catalog of titles and confirm coverage per title on the subscription information page.

Choosing your subscription path

The distinction matters because institutional access usually runs through your organization's IP range or proxy rather than a personal login, while individual and member access are tied to your own account.

Steps to subscribe

1. Go to thejns.org and select Subscribe in the main navigation.
2. On the subscription information page, identify the section that matches you — Individual and Institutional Subscriptions or AANS Member Subscriptions.
3. Follow the instructions in that section for the title or titles you want.
4. If you already have an account, use Sign in; if not, use Sign up before or during the subscription process.
5. After subscribing, verify access by opening a journal issue or an article page and confirming you can reach full content rather than an access prompt.

Expected result: your account or your institution's connection is recognized, and full-text articles open without a paywall.

Common snags

• Wrong path chosen. If your institution already subscribes, an individual purchase may duplicate access you already have. Check with your library first.
• Account not linked. Signing up for a site account is not the same as holding a subscription; the subscription step must be completed separately.
• Member status not recognized. AANS member access depends on your membership being current and associated with your account.
• Title-by-title coverage. Access to one JNS title does not automatically mean access to all of them unless your subscription or institution covers the full group.

Related tasks on the same site

Once access is sorted, the site supports the rest of the research workflow directly: Advanced Search and Help sit in the top navigation, Just Published surfaces recent articles, and Collections groups curated content such as the Leksell Top 25 lists, Best of year selections, and topic collections like Parkinson disease and Gamma Knife surgery. Authors and librarians have their own sections (For Authors, For Librarians), and the site notes an Oxford University Press Partnership plus a JNSPG Shop and Permissions page for reuse requests.

For exact pricing, bundle definitions, and institutional terms, the subscription information page is the authoritative source — the details are not reproduced on the pages summarized here.

thejns.org is the home of the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG), and it serves two distinct professional audiences through dedicated navigation sections: For Authors and For Librarians. If you are preparing a manuscript for submission, the For Authors area is your entry point; if you manage institutional access or holdings, the For Librarians area is where you start. Both sit alongside the journal content itself, so the site functions as a combined reading, submission, and subscription-management hub rather than a single journal page.

The journals you are working with

Before using the author or librarian tools, it helps to know the publication list, since submission and subscription decisions are made per journal. The site's journal menu lists:

• Journal of Neurosurgery
• Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine
• Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics
• Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons
• Neurosurgical Focus
• Neurosurgical Focus: Video

Each title has its own "Just Published" feed and its own collections. For example, the site surfaces themed collections such as the Leksell Top 25 series (Meningioma, Vestibular Schwannoma, Since 2005), Top 25 Cited Gamma Knife® Surgery Articles, Deep Brain Stimulation, Parkinson Disease: Top 25 Cited Articles, and "Best of" year collections. These matter to authors because they show what the editors highlight, and to librarians because they are a visible measure of the content you would be licensing.

For Authors: what the section covers

The For Authors section is the route for anyone submitting a manuscript. Based on the site's own structure, it connects to:

• Submission entry point — a "Submit" link appears in the main navigation, so manuscript submission is reachable directly from the top-level menu rather than buried inside a journal issue.
• Publishing Policies — listed under the About Us area, this is where the group's editorial and ethical rules live. Read this before submitting, because policy compliance is typically checked at intake.
• Editorial Boards — also under About Us, so you can identify the editors handling your subject area and understand the review structure per journal.
• Permissions — a separate link, relevant if your manuscript reuses figures, tables, or previously published material and you need to clear rights.
• Contact Us — for correspondence with the publishing group when the standard submission system does not cover your situation.

A practical sequence for an author: confirm which of the six journals fits your work, read that journal's scope and the group's Publishing Policies, check the Editorial Board for relevant expertise, clear any third-party material through Permissions, then use Submit. The site does not publish a single universal manuscript format in the material available here, so treat each journal's own author instructions as authoritative rather than assuming one format applies across all six titles.

For Librarians: what the section covers

The For Librarians section exists for institutional subscribers and collection managers. It sits in the same top-level navigation as For Authors, which signals that library-facing concerns are treated as a first-class audience rather than an afterthought. The relevant adjacent resources are:

• Subscription information — the site's Subscribe page is titled "Subscribe to JNS" and is organized under the headings "Individual and Institutional Subscriptions" and "AANS Member Subscriptions." That three-way split is the key fact for a librarian: institutional access is a distinct track from individual and member access, so you should follow the institutional path rather than a personal one.
• About Us / JNSPG Staff — identifies the publishing group's staff, useful when you need a named contact for licensing or access problems.
• Oxford University Press Partnership — the site notes a partnership with Oxford University Press. For librarians this is significant, because it may mean access and subscription administration runs through OUP systems rather than solely through thejns.org. Confirm which platform handles your institution's authentication before troubleshooting access.
• JNSPG Shop — a separate commerce area, distinct from journal subscriptions.

Choosing your path

Common sticking points

The most frequent mistake is treating subscription as one thing. The Subscribe page explicitly separates individual, institutional, and AANS member subscriptions, so an institutional query routed through the individual track will not resolve correctly. The second is assuming thejns.org is the only access platform: the Oxford University Press partnership means your institution's access may be administered elsewhere, and checking that first saves time. The third is submitting before reading Publishing Policies and clearing Permissions — both are pre-submission tasks, and discovering a rights problem after review wastes the review cycle.

For authors, the site gives you the submission route, the policy framework, the editorial roster, and a permissions channel. For librarians, it gives you a clearly separated institutional subscription track, staff contacts, and a named publishing partner to check against. Start in the section that matches your role, and confirm platform details with the publishing group before assuming how access or submission is administered.

thejns.org is the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) site, and you can locate articles in four main ways: browse the Just Published feed for the newest papers, use Search or Advanced Search for a specific topic, open a specific journal's page (Journal of Neurosurgery, Spine, Pediatrics, Case Lessons, Neurosurgical Focus, or Neurosurgical Focus: Video), or go into Collections for editor-curated groupings such as the Leksell Top 25 and Best of lists. Full text access generally requires a subscription or institutional access, so expect to sign in or check with your library before assuming an article is free.

Start with the Just Published feed

The homepage surfaces a Just Published section that lists recent articles across the journals, each with authors, a short "In Brief" summary, a publication date, and a DOI link. This is the fastest route when you want to see what is new rather than search for something specific.

Each entry gives you enough to judge relevance before clicking through:

• Title and author list — confirms the topic and who did the work.
• In Brief — a plain-language summary of the finding, useful for scanning quickly.
• Publication Date — tells you how current the paper is.
• DOI link — the stable identifier you can paste into a reference manager or use to find the article elsewhere.

For example, a recent entry covers 34 years (1990–2023) of US spinal cord injury data from the Global Burden of Disease database, noting that prevalence and disability fell while incidence rose in adults over 65. The In Brief is often enough to decide whether to open the full article.

Search and Advanced Search

Use Search when you have a clear term — an author, a procedure, a condition. Use Advanced Search when you need to combine fields or narrow results, which is the better choice for systematic lookups.

A practical sequence:

1. Enter your core term (for example, a technique or diagnosis) in Search.
2. If you get too many results, switch to Advanced Search and add limits such as author, journal, or date range.
3. Open the result, then use the DOI to confirm you have the version of record.

The Help link next to the search tools explains the available operators if your first query returns noise.

Browse by journal

JNSPG publishes several distinct titles, so if you know the subspecialty you can go straight to the right journal instead of searching across everything:

Each journal page carries its own recent content, so this is the most efficient path when your interest is confined to one area.

Use Collections for curated reading

Collections group articles by theme or significance rather than by date. Examples on the site include:

• Leksell Top 25 sets (meningioma, vestibular schwannoma, and a "Since 2005" list)
• Top 25 Cited Gamma Knife® Surgery Articles (including a trigeminal neuralgia list and a Volume 111 list)
• Best of annual lists (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and a 75th Anniversary selection)
• Parkinson Disease: Top 25 Cited Articles
• Rhoton and Editor's Choice selections
• Journal Club and a COVID-19 collection

Collections are the right tool when you want a curated starting point on a topic — for a literature review, a teaching session, or orientation to a field — rather than a single answer.

Access and subscriptions

The site separates Individual and Institutional Subscriptions from AANS Member Subscriptions, and there is a dedicated subscription information page. If you hit a paywall, the usual routes are:

• Institutional access — check whether your hospital or university library subscribes; this is often the simplest option.
• AANS membership — members have a separate subscription path.
• Individual subscription — for readers without institutional or member access.

The site does not state that articles are free, so treat full-text access as gated unless you are signed in through a subscribing institution or membership.

Common sticking points

• Search returns too much — move to Advanced Search and add a journal or date limit.
• You cannot open the full text — you are likely not signed in through a subscriber; try your library or the subscription page.
• You want a topic overview, not one paper — go to Collections first, then follow the DOIs into individual articles.
• You need the citable version — use the DOI rather than a saved page, since it points to the version of record.

Thejns.org hosts the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) family of journals, a group of neurosurgery-focused titles that share one site and one submission system. The list includes the flagship Journal of Neurosurgery plus subspecialty titles covering spine, pediatrics, case reports, and topic-based collections, along with a video journal. If you are looking for a specific neurosurgery subspecialty, the site organizes its content so you can go directly to the matching journal rather than searching the whole group.

The journal family at a glance

Each title publishes neurosurgery-related research and clinical content, but the subspecialty split is what determines where a given article appears.

How to tell the titles apart

Journal of Neurosurgery

This is the main title in the group and the broadest in scope. If a paper does not clearly belong to spine, pediatrics, or a case-report format, it is most likely to appear here. The site's "Just Published" feed shows recent articles from this journal alongside the others, so you can see the range of general topics it carries.

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

This title narrows the scope to spinal conditions and spinal surgery. A recent example listed on the site is a study on trends and disparities in spinal cord injury incidence, prevalence, and disability across the United States from 1990 to 2023, and another on dual-pin reference frame placement in navigated minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. Both illustrate the spine-specific clinical and outcomes research this journal publishes.

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

This title covers neurosurgical care in pediatric patients. It sits alongside the other subspecialty journals in the site's journal menu, so you can browse it separately from the adult-focused titles.

Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons

This journal is built around case-based content. Rather than broad population studies, it publishes individual cases and the lessons drawn from them, which makes it useful when you want to see how a specific presentation or complication was handled.

Neurosurgical Focus

Neurosurgical Focus differs from the others in format: each issue is organized around a single topic or theme. That makes it a good place to look when you want a concentrated set of articles on one subject rather than a mix of unrelated papers.

Neurosurgical Focus: Video

This is the video-based title in the group. If your interest is in operative technique or visual demonstration rather than text-only articles, this is the journal to check.

Practical notes for using the site

• One site, many journals. The homepage lists all titles in a single menu, so you can move between them without leaving the domain.
• Browse by collection. Beyond the journals, the site groups content into collections such as Journal Club, COVID-19, and topic-based "Top 25" lists (for example, meningioma, vestibular schwannoma, and Gamma Knife surgery articles). These cut across journals and are useful for finding highly cited work on a theme.
• Submission and access. The site provides "For Authors," "For Librarians," and "Submit" sections, and a "Subscribe" page covering individual, institutional, and AANS member subscriptions. Access to full content may depend on a subscription or institutional arrangement, so check the subscription information page for the current options rather than assuming open access.

If you know your subspecialty, start with the matching journal; if you are exploring, the "Just Published" feed and the collections give you a quick sense of what each title covers.