Most cited papers in Pain Management and Placebo Effect
What are the most cited papers in Pain Management and Placebo Effect?
The most cited paper in Pain Management and Placebo Effect is "Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future." (Jon Kabat‐Zinn, 2003), with 7,655 citations. Next come "The McGill Pain Questionnaire: Major properties and scoring methods" (6,910) and "Pain assessment: global use of the Brief Pain Inventory." (5,290).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,012 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future. Jon Kabat‐Zinn · Clinical Psychology Science and Practice | 2003 | 7,655 |
| 2 | The McGill Pain Questionnaire: Major properties and scoring methods Ronald Melzack · Pain | Sep 1975 | 6,910 |
| 3 | Pain assessment: global use of the Brief Pain Inventory. Cleeland Cs, Ryan Km · PubMed | Mar 1994 | 5,290 |
| 4 | Central sensitization: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of pain Clifford J. Woolf · Pain | 19 Oct 2010 | 4,736 |
| 5 | MEASUREMENT OF PAIN E.C. HUSKISSON · The Lancet | Nov 1974 | 4,523 |
| 6 | Unconventional Medicine in the United States -- Prevalence, Costs, and Patterns of Use David M. Eisenberg, Ronald C. Kessler, Cindy Foster et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 28 Jan 1993 | 4,213 |
| 7 | Mindfulness-based stress reduction and health benefits Paul Michael Grossman, Ludger Niemann, Stefan Schmidt et al. · Journal of Psychosomatic Research | Jul 2004 | 3,985 |
| 8 | Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty et al. · Science | 19 Feb 2004 | 3,969 |
| 9 | Depression and Pain Comorbidity Matthew J. Bair, Rebecca L Robinson, Wayne J. Katon et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine | 10 Nov 2003 | 3,492 |
| 10 | Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness Hugo Critchley, Stefan Wiens, Pia Rotshtein et al. · Nature Neuroscience | 18 Jan 2004 | 3,462 |
| 11 | The biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain: Scientific advances and future directions. Robert J. Gatchel, Yuan Bo Peng, Madelon L. Peters et al. · Psychological Bulletin | 2007 | 3,405 |
| 12 | Grading the severity of chronic pain Michael Von Korff, Johan Ormel, Francis J. Keefe et al. · Pain | Aug 1992 | 3,069 |
| 13 | A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11 Rolf‐Detlef Treede et al. · Pain | 6 Apr 2015 | 2,856 |
| 14 | Graphic representation of pain Jane Scott, E.C. HUSKISSON · Pain | Jun 1976 | 2,730 |
| 15 | Endogenous Pain Control Systems: Brainstem Spinal Pathways and Endorphin Circuitry Allan I. Basbaum, Howard L. Fields · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1984 | 2,644 |
| 16 | Pain Affect Encoded in Human Anterior Cingulate But Not Somatosensory Cortex Pierre Rainville, Gary H. Duncan, Donald D. Price et al. · Science | 15 Aug 1997 | 2,635 |
| 17 | Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body AD Craig · Current Opinion in Neurobiology | 16 Jul 2003 | 2,631 |
| 18 | Chronic pain: an update on burden, best practices, and new advances Steven Paul Cohen, Lene Vase, William Michael Hooten · The Lancet | May 2021 | 2,612 |
| 19 | Writing About Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process James W. Pennebaker · Psychological Science | May 1997 | 2,502 |
| 20 | Theoretical Perspectives on the Relation Between Catastrophizing and Pain Michael J. L. Sullivan, Beverly E. Thorn, Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite et al. · Clinical Journal of Pain | Mar 2001 | 2,478 |
| 21 | Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration Irving Kirsch, Brett J. Deacon, Tania Bibiana Huedo-Medina et al. · PLoS Medicine | 21 Feb 2008 | 2,468 |
| 22 | EFFECT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENT ON SURVIVAL OF PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER David Spiegel, H C Kraemer, JoanR. Bloom et al. · The Lancet | Oct 1989 | 2,383 |
| 23 | Psychosomatic Medicine in Germany: More Timely than Ever Stephan Zipfel, Wolfgang Herzog, Johannes Kruse et al. · Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | 2016 | 2,327 |
| 24 | The Fear-Avoidance Model of Musculoskeletal Pain: Current State of Scientific Evidence Maaike Leeuw, Mariëlle E. J. B. Goossens, STEVEN JAMES LINTON et al. · Journal of Behavioral Medicine | 19 Dec 2006 | 2,258 |
| 25 | Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer: A randomized double-blind trial Roland R. Griffiths, Matthew W. Johnson, Michael Anthony Carducci et al. · Journal of Psychopharmacology | 30 Nov 2016 | 2,248 |
| 26 | Functional imaging of brain responses to pain. A review and meta-analysis (2000) Roland Peyron, Bernard Laurent, Luis Garcı́a-Larrea · Neurophysiologie Clinique | Oct 2000 | 2,185 |
| 27 | Sex differences in pain: a brief review of clinical and experimental findings Emily J. Bartley, Roger Benton Fillingim · British Journal of Anaesthesia | 23 Jun 2013 | 2,183 |
| 28 | Cannabinoids for Medical Use Penny F. Whiting, Robert F. Wolff, Sohan Deshpande et al. · JAMA | 23 Jun 2015 | 2,179 |
| 29 | The West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (WHYMPI) Robert D. Kerns, Dennis C. Turk, Thomas E. Rudy · Pain | Dec 1985 | 2,144 |
| 30 | THE NATURE OF SUFFERING AND THE GOALS OF MEDICINE Eric J. Cassel · New England Journal of Medicine | 18 Mar 1982 | 2,139 |
| 31 | Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: Evidence-based recommendations Robert H. Dworkin, Alec O'connor, Miroslav Bačkonja et al. · Pain | 10 Nov 2007 | 2,136 |
| 32 | Clinical applications of visual analogue scales: a critical review Heather M. McCormack, David J. de L. Horne, Simon J. Sheather · Psychological Medicine | Nov 1988 | 2,129 |
| 33 | Cognitive and emotional control of pain and its disruption in chronic pain M. Catherine Bushnell, Marta Čeko, Lucie A. Low · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 30 May 2013 | 2,115 |
| 34 | Psychological and Neural Mechanisms of the Affective Dimension of Pain Donald D. Price · Science | 9 Jun 2000 | 2,111 |
| 35 | Neuropathic pain Luana Colloca, Taylor Ludman, Didier Bouhassira et al. · Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 15 Feb 2017 | 2,083 |
| 36 | Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain Claus Lamm, Jean Decety, Tania Singer · NeuroImage | 13 Oct 2010 | 2,082 |
| 37 | Mindfulness-based therapy: A comprehensive meta-analysis Bassam Khoury, Tania Lecomte, Guillaume M. Fortin et al. · Clinical Psychology Review | 7 Jun 2013 | 2,051 |
| 38 | Neuropathic Pain: A Maladaptive Response of the Nervous System to Damage Michael G. Costigan, Joachim Scholz, Clifford J. Woolf · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Jun 2009 | 2,041 |
| 39 | Antidepressant Drug Effects and Depression Severity Jay C.J. Fournier, Robert J. DeRubeis, Steven D. Hollon et al. · JAMA | 5 Jan 2010 | 2,034 |
| 40 | Placebo-Induced Changes in fMRI in the Anticipation and Experience of Pain Tor Dessart Wager, James K. Rilling, Edward E. Smith et al. · Science | 19 Feb 2004 | 2,032 |
| 41 | Contribution of central neuroplasticity to pathological pain: review of clinical and experimental evidence Terence J. Coderre, Joel D Katz, Anthony L. Vaccarino et al. · Pain | Mar 1993 | 1,999 |
| 42 | Assessment of chronic pain. I. Aspects of the reliability and validity of the visual analogue scale Anna Maria Carlsson · Pain | May 1983 | 1,877 |
| 43 | The Cerebral Signature for Pain Perception and Its Modulation Irene Tracey, Patrick W. Mantyh · Neuron | Aug 2007 | 1,871 |
| 44 | Pain and emotion interactions in subregions of the cingulate gyrus Brent Alan Vogt · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Jul 2005 | 1,825 |
| 45 | Rapid and sustained symptom reduction following psilocybin treatment for anxiety and depression in patients with life-threatening cancer: a randomized controlled trial STEPHEN D. ROSS, Anthony P. Bossis, Jeffrey R. Guss et al. · Journal of Psychopharmacology | 30 Nov 2016 | 1,748 |
| 46 | An fMRI-Based Neurologic Signature of Physical Pain Tor Dessart Wager, Lauren Yvette Atlas, Martin A. Lindquist et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 10 Apr 2013 | 1,691 |
| 47 | Pain demands attention: A cognitive–affective model of the interruptive function of pain. Christopher Eccleston, Geert Crombez · Psychological Bulletin | 1999 | 1,684 |
| 48 | Psilocybin with psychological support for treatment-resistant depression: an open-label feasibility study Robin Lester Carhart-Harris, Mark Bolstridge, James Rucker et al. · The Lancet Psychiatry | 17 May 2016 | 1,581 |
| 49 | Gender variations in clinical pain experience Anita M. Unruh · Pain | May 1996 | 1,576 |
| 50 | When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End Daniel J. Kahneman, Barbara L. Fredrickson, Charles A. Schreiber et al. · Psychological Science | Nov 1993 | 1,529 |
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