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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Translational control by general control nonderepressible 2 kinase regulates methylglyoxal-induced pain in mice	222
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids	167
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis	109
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain	106
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial	106
Autoantibodies in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome	97
The social nature of human pain	85
Chemokines as targets to treat chronic postoperative pain	77
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	74
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	72
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy	64
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)	63
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study	62
C–C motif chemokine ligand 12 (CCL12) is a critical chemokine driving postoperative pain	60
Table of Contents	58
Showcasing scientific discovery in PAIN: an opportunity for authors	55
Episodic pain in Fabry disease is mediated by a heat shock protein-transient receptor potential cation channel A1 axis	54
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth	54
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage	50
Selective targeting of voltage-gated sodium channels to achieve analgesia: current status and future directions	49
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly	48
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	47
Reply to Currie et al.	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	44
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes	43
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study	43
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	41
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A–mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors	41
Reply to Quintner	39
The future of pain research: neuromodulation and surgery	39
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease	38
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study	37
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment	37
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids	37
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal	36
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?	36
The contribution of baseline circulating endocannabinoids to individual differences in human pain sensitivity: a quantitative sensory testing study	36
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients	36
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain	36