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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study	184
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids	104
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)	88
The social nature of human pain	86
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy	79
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward	73
Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury	71
Description and initial validation of a novel measure of pain intensity: the Numeric Rating Scale of Underlying Pain without concurrent Analgesic use	67
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients	67
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal	66
Autoantibodies in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome	66
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment	65
Neuropathic pain and neurocognitive functioning in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia	61
Automated detection of squint as a sensitive assay of sex-dependent calcitonin gene–related peptide and amylin-induced pain in mice	60
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain	58
Reply to Venda Nova et al.	58
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample	57
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth	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?	56
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids	50
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis	46
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study	45
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes	43
Reply to Quintner	42
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly	42

Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study	40
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes	40
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain	38
Reply to Currie et al.	38
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	37
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease	36
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage	36
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain	36
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment	35
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A–mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors	35
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	35