OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Pain is 35. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Data-driven identification of distinct pain drawing patterns and their association with clinical and psychological factors: a study of 21,123 patients with spinal pain	231
Translational control by general control nonderepressible 2 kinase regulates methylglyoxal-induced pain in mice	145
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids	107
Vaso-occlusive crisis pain intensity, frequency, and duration: which best correlates with health-related quality of life in adolescents and adults with sickle cell disease?	90
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis	82
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial	81
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids	77
The future of pain research: neuromodulation and surgery	75
Sex differences in pain expressed by patients across diverse disease states: individual patient data meta-analysis of 33,957 participants in 10 randomized controlled trials	74
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)	72
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease	70
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes	68
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy	68
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients	64
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage	64
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain	60
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly	55
Reply to Quintner	49
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes	49
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth	46
Reply to Currie et al.	46
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain	46
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward	45
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment	43
Episodic pain in Fabry disease is mediated by a heat shock protein-transient receptor potential cation channel A1 axis	42

Autoantibodies in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome	42
Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury	41
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal	39
The social nature of human pain	39
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study	38
Selective targeting of voltage-gated sodium channels to achieve analgesia: current status and future directions	38
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study	38
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample	37
Description and initial validation of a novel measure of pain intensity: the Numeric Rating Scale of Underlying Pain without concurrent Analgesic use	36
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain	36
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study	35
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A–mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors	35