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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	273
Showcasing scientific discovery in PAIN: an opportunity for authors	203
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain	119
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly	119
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward	115
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment	104
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy	91
Reply to Quintner	87
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain	82
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	80
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study	77
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage	73
Chemokines as targets to treat chronic postoperative pain	66
Reply to Alcántara Montero: Towards a unified paradigm: chronic pain and functional somatic disorders	62
C–C motif chemokine ligand 12 (CCL12) is a critical chemokine driving postoperative pain	62
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	62
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease	54
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study	52
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal	52
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment	50
Translational control by general control nonderepressible 2 kinase regulates methylglyoxal-induced pain in mice	48
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis	47
The contribution of baseline circulating endocannabinoids to individual differences in human pain sensitivity: a quantitative sensory testing study	46
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth	46
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample	45

Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial	43
Does long-term potentiation at spinal C-fiber synapses account for primary and secondary hyperalgesia? Insights from high-frequency stimulation studies	41
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids	41
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain	40
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes	40
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids	39
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes	38
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	37
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?	37
Autoantibodies in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome	37
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study	35
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients	35
The social nature of human pain	35