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Frontiers in Pain Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (miscellaneous) | 9 / 101 | 91st | Q1 |
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 34 / 147 | 77th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 178 / 725 | 75th | Q1 |
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | 25 / 74 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Frontiers in Pain Research is Q1 in Health Professions (miscellaneous) (rank 9 of 101), Q1 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 34 of 147) and Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 178 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Frontiers in Pain Research is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.851, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,077 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Frontiers in Pain Research is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2673-561X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Pain Research has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 2.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 97 Scopus journals in Health Professions (miscellaneous).
Frontiers in Pain Research published 182 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 222. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (28.4%), United States (19.4%) and Italy (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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