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Migraine and Headache Studies

Migraine and Headache Studies is a research topic within Psychiatry and Mental health. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the pathophysiology, burden, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of migraine and other headache disorders. It covers topics such as the role of calcitonin gene-related peptide, brain activation, trigeminal nerve function, cortical spreading depression, genetic influences, and various treatment modalities for migraine.

  • Migraine
  • Headache Disorders
  • Neurological Disorders
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide
  • Chronic Migraine
  • Brain Activation
  • Trigeminal Nerve
  • Cortical Spreading Depression
  • Migraine Prevention
  • Genetic Influences
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Migraine and Headache Studies

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Migraine and Headache Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 605 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 605 works
  3. 3 Germany 314 works
  4. 4 Italy 298 works
  5. 5 India 287 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 241 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 237 works
  8. 8 Spain 223 works
  9. 9 Brazil 186 works
  10. 10 Japan 182 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 35.9%China: 15.1%Germany: 7.8%Italy: 7.4%6 others listed: 33.8%36%largest
United States1,439 · 35.9%China605 · 15.1%Germany314 · 7.8%Italy298 · 7.4%6 others listed1,357 · 33.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Migraine and Headache Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Migraine and Headache Studies research, followed by University of Copenhagen and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 78 works
  2. 2 University of CopenhagenDenmark 61 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 51 works
  4. 4 Albert Einstein College of MedicineUnited States 48 works
  5. 5 Sechenov UniversityRussia 33 works
  6. 6 AbbVie (United States)United States 28 works
  7. 7 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  8. 8 Capital Medical UniversityChina 28 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 25 works
  10. 10 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Migraine and Headache Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migraine and Headache Studies include David Moher, Theo Vos and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  5. 5 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  6. 6 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  7. 7 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  8. 8 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  9. 9 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  10. 10 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Migraine and Headache Studies?

The most cited paper in Migraine and Headache Studies is "The International Classification of Headache Disorders: 2nd edition" (Jes Olesen, Peter James Goadsby, Tim Steiner, 2003), with 5,056 citations. Next come "Interplay between Cortical Spreading Depolarization and Seizures" (3,708) and "The Global Burden of Headache: A Documentation of Headache Prevalence and Disability Worldwide" (2,483).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The International Classification of Headache Disorders: 2nd edition Jes Olesen, Peter James Goadsby, Tim Steiner · The Lancet Neurology 20 Nov 2003 5,056
2 Interplay between Cortical Spreading Depolarization and Seizures Daniel R. Kramer, Tatsuhiro Fujii, Ifije E. Ohiorhenuan et al. · Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 2017 3,708
3 The Global Burden of Headache: A Documentation of Headache Prevalence and Disability Worldwide LJ Stovner, Knut Hagen, Rigmor Jensen et al. · Cephalalgia Mar 2007 2,483
4 Migraine prevalence, disease burden, and the need for preventive therapy Richard B. Lipton, MARCELO EDUARDO BIGAL, Merle L. Diamond et al. · Neurology Open access 30 Jan 2007 2,375
5 Translation, Validation, and Norming of the Dutch Language Version of the SF-36 Health Survey in Community and Chronic Disease Populations Neil K. Aaronson, Martín Müller, Peter D. A. Cohen et al. · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology Nov 1998 2,328
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Where is Migraine and Headache Studies research done?

The largest centres of Migraine and Headache Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Rome (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in North Chicago and The Bronx.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 112 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 109 works
  3. 3 CopenhagenDenmark 81 works
  4. 4 RomeItaly 78 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 74 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 72 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 65 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 62 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 61 works
  10. 10 PhiladelphiaUnited States 53 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. North ChicagoUS · 21.6 works42×
  2. The BronxUS · 47.1 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Migraine and Headache Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Migraine and Headache Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Copenhagen, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Harvard University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 23.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…Universitat Autònoma…Leiden UniversityHarvard University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of CopenhagenDenmark 90.830.0%12.7×61 +7.0%
2Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 73.728.5%5.5×18 +53.4%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 72.417.0%4.8×78 -10.8%
4Leiden UniversityNetherlands 69.724.0%6.7×19 +31.3%
5King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 68.926.5%6.4×28 -10.1%
6University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 61.122.0%3.4×20 +46.2%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 59.014.3%3.0×25 +10.5%
8Albert Einstein College of MedicineUnited States 58.913.0%27.3×48 -30.5%
9Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 58.828.4%5.0×15 -34.3%
10Dokkyo Medical UniversityJapan 58.729.8%48.6×12 +190.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Migraine and Headache Studies, country by country

Is Migraine and Headache Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Migraine and Headache Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Migraine and Headache Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Migraine and Headache Studies0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Migraine and Headache Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Migraine and Headache Studies10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

Questions people ask

Who is researching a cure for migraine?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Migraine and Headache Studies research, followed by University of Copenhagen and Mayo Clinic. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 605 works in 2022-now).

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