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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study	318
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids	163
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward	102
Orai1 is a crucial downstream partner of group I metabotropic glutamate receptor signaling in dorsal horn neurons	85
Description and initial validation of a novel measure of pain intensity: the Numeric Rating Scale of Underlying Pain without concurrent Analgesic use	84
Reply to Venda Nova et al.	76
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial	69
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain	67
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample	66
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?	63
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth	62
The social nature of human pain	60
Intersectional identity approach to chronic pain disparities using latent class analysis	60
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis	58
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain	57
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study	57
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment	54
Whiplash injuries associated with experienced pain and disability can be visualized with [11C]-D-deprenyl positron emission tomography and computed tomography	53
Neuropathic pain and neurocognitive functioning in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia	52
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly	52
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes	52
Reply to Quintner	48
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes	47
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients	44
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	44

Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury	42
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study	42
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain	41
Autoantibodies in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome	40
Reply to Currie et al.	40
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment	40
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids	39
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease	38
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage	37
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)	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	35
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A–mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors	35