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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study	201
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)	106
Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury	105
Description and initial validation of a novel measure of pain intensity: the Numeric Rating Scale of Underlying Pain without concurrent Analgesic use	92
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment	79
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal	79
Neuropathic pain and neurocognitive functioning in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia	75
Reply to Venda Nova et al.	73
Automated detection of squint as a sensitive assay of sex-dependent calcitonin gene–related peptide and amylin-induced pain in mice	73
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain	71
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?	69
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage	68
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A–mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors	65
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment	65
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial	61
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes	60
Translational control by general control nonderepressible 2 kinase regulates methylglyoxal-induced pain in mice	60
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly	58
Reply to Quintner	55
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes	50
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study	46
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease	43
Reply to Currie et al.	43
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain	43
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain	42

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	40
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth	39
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy	38
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids	38
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward	38
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample	37
The social nature of human pain	36
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	36
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study	35
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis	35
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients	35