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Pain Research and Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1203-6765Verify ISSN ↗1918-1523Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 23 / 147 | 84th | Q1 |
| Neurology | 57 / 201 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Pain Research and Management is Q1 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 23 of 147) and Q2 in Neurology (rank 57 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Pain Research and Management 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.844, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 80.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,830 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.
Pain Research and Management is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1203-6765 and its online ISSN is 1918-1523.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pain Research and Management has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 1.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Pain Research and Management published 96 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 141. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (40.4%), Türkiye (7.1%) and Italy (5.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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.
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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