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Pain Physician is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. Published by American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.
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ISSN 1533-3159Verify ISSN ↗2150-1149Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 28 / 147 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Pain Physician is Q1 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 28 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Pain Physician 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.899, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 123.
Pain Physician is published by American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. Its print ISSN is 1533-3159 and its online ISSN is 2150-1149.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pain Physician has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 3.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Pain Physician published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 203. 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 91 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (36.8%), United States (33.3%) and Egypt (5.5%).
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.
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