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Pain is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 0304-3959Verify ISSN ↗1872-6623Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 5 / 147 | 96th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 32 / 403 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Neurology | 19 / 201 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.7.
Pain is Q1 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 5 of 147), Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 32 of 403) and Q1 in Neurology (rank 19 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Pain is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 10.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.127, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 314.
Pain is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 0304-3959 and its online ISSN is 1872-6623.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pain has an h-index of 401 and a 2-year mean of 4.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Pain published 409 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 595. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (38.6%), Canada (9.1%) and Australia (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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