It is published by the non-profit corporation The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

As of 2016, it had a Journal Citation Reports impact factor of 4.8 and ranking of 10/197 (surgery), 2/76 (orthopedics).

[1] The journal became the organ of the newly founded American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in 1933.

The British volume was published by The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, a registered charity in the United Kingdom.

The British volume was renamed The Bone & Joint Journal in 2013.