OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Pain is 36. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial	227
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	132
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage	97
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids	95
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	86
Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury	81
Selective targeting of voltage-gated sodium channels to achieve analgesia: current status and future directions	79
The future of pain research: neuromodulation and surgery	78
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment	73
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal	73
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)	71
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease	70
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy	68
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain	66
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study	66
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?	63
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes	62
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly	55
Reply to Quintner	53
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes	48
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain	46
Reply to Currie et al.	44
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth	44
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment	42
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward	42

Automated detection of squint as a sensitive assay of sex-dependent calcitonin gene–related peptide and amylin-induced pain in mice	41
Episodic pain in Fabry disease is mediated by a heat shock protein-transient receptor potential cation channel A1 axis	41
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study	40
The social nature of human pain	40
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study	38
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients	38
Translational control by general control nonderepressible 2 kinase regulates methylglyoxal-induced pain in mice	37
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample	37
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain	37
Description and initial validation of a novel measure of pain intensity: the Numeric Rating Scale of Underlying Pain without concurrent Analgesic use	36
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids	36