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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	238
Showcasing scientific discovery in PAIN: an opportunity for authors	178
The future of pain research: neuromodulation and surgery	111
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly	108
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain	102
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward	90
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment	78
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy	73
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)	69
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids	67
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients	66
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study	62
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain	56
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth	56
Reply to Quintner	56
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?	51
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study	50
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	50
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes	49
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage	48
Chemokines as targets to treat chronic postoperative pain	48
Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury	48
C–C motif chemokine ligand 12 (CCL12) is a critical chemokine driving postoperative pain	45
The impact of opioid withdrawal symptoms on pain outcomes in enriched enrollment randomized withdrawal trials: a mediation meta-analysis of trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration	45
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study	43

Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain	41
Reply to Alcántara Montero: Towards a unified paradigm: chronic pain and functional somatic disorders	41
The contribution of baseline circulating endocannabinoids to individual differences in human pain sensitivity: a quantitative sensory testing study	39
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample	39
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment	38
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal	38
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial	37
Episodic pain in Fabry disease is mediated by a heat shock protein-transient receptor potential cation channel A1 axis	37
The social nature of human pain	37
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis	37
Selective targeting of voltage-gated sodium channels to achieve analgesia: current status and future directions	37
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes	36