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Pain Management and Treatment

Pain Management and Treatment is a research topic within Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Science Explorer counts 18k 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 treatment and mechanisms of complex pain syndromes, particularly related to spinal cord stimulation, complex regional pain syndrome, phantom limb pain, and neuropathic pain. It also explores cortical reorganization, mirror therapy, chronic back pain, neurostimulation, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, and the role of the peripheral nervous system in these conditions.

  • Spinal Cord Stimulation
  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
  • Phantom Limb Pain
  • Neuropathic Pain
  • Cortical Reorganization
  • Mirror Therapy
  • Chronic Back Pain
  • Neurostimulation
  • Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
  • Peripheral Nervous System
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+48%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pain Management and Treatment

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

Which countries lead Pain Management and Treatment research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 536 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 536 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 240 works
  4. 4 Germany 197 works
  5. 5 India 189 works
  6. 6 Italy 160 works
  7. 7 Spain 151 works
  8. 8 Canada 150 works
  9. 9 Japan 150 works
  10. 10 Brazil 136 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: 45.3%China: 15.4%United Kingdom: 6.9%Germany: 5.6%6 others listed: 26.8%45%largest
United States1,579 · 45.3%China536 · 15.4%United Kingdom240 · 6.9%Germany197 · 5.6%6 others listed936 · 26.8%

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

Which institutions lead Pain Management and Treatment research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Pain Management and Treatment research, followed by Mayo Clinic and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 80 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 51 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 30 works
  4. 4 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 28 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 Capital Medical UniversityChina 27 works
  7. 7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 24 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 20 works
  9. 9 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pain Management and Treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pain Management and Treatment include Cyrus Cooper, Graeme J. Hankey and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  5. 5 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  6. 6 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  7. 7 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  8. 8 Stuart Pocock United Kingdom 273k citations
  9. 9 Valentı́n Fuster United States 257k citations
  10. 10 Piotr P. Ponikowski Poland 253k 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 Pain Management and Treatment?

The most cited paper in Pain Management and Treatment is "Central Sensitization: A Generator of Pain Hypersensitivity by Central Neural Plasticity" (Alban Latrémolière, Clifford J. Woolf, 2009), with 3,917 citations. Next come "Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease" (3,160) and "Non-invasive electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, spinal cord, roots and peripheral nerves: Basic principles and procedures for routine clinical and research application. An updated report from an I.F.C.N. Committee" (2,859).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Central Sensitization: A Generator of Pain Hypersensitivity by Central Neural Plasticity Alban Latrémolière, Clifford J. Woolf · Journal of Pain Open access 26 Aug 2009 3,917
2 Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease A. Vania Apkarian, M. Catherine Bushnell, Rolf‐Detlef Treede et al. · European Journal of Pain Open access 25 Jan 2005 3,160
3 Non-invasive electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, spinal cord, roots and peripheral nerves: Basic principles and procedures for routine clinical and research application. An updated report from an I.F.C.N. Committee Paolo Maria Rossini et al. · Clinical Neurophysiology Open access 10 Feb 2015 2,859
4 Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): An update (2014–2018) Jean‐Pascal Lefaucheur et al. · Clinical Neurophysiology Open access 31 Dec 2019 2,413
5 pain DETECT : a new screening questionnaire to identify neuropathic components in patients with back pain Rainer Freynhagen, Ralf Baron, Ulrich Gockel et al. · Current Medical Research and Opinion Open access 29 Aug 2006 2,304
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Where is Pain Management and Treatment research done?

The largest centres of Pain Management and Treatment research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 85 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 70 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 66 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 59 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 54 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 54 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 42 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 41 works
  9. 9 ClevelandUnited States 41 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 40 works
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Where is the best place to study Pain Management and Treatment?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Toronto and Erasmus University Rotterdam 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%10%20%30%mean 19.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Medical University o…Erasmus University R…University of TorontoHarvard 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 80.114.0%5.8×80 +46.3%
2University of TorontoCanada 72.118.0%3.4×30 +66.7%
3Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 67.621.1%6.5×15 +155.8%
4Medical University of ViennaAustria 64.927.4%6.8×9 +48.9%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 61.811.7%4.2×28 +31.6%
6Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 61.714.1%6.6×11 +35.7%
7Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States 61.220.3%9.3×10 +39.1%
8University of British ColumbiaCanada 60.720.3%2.4×12 +57.4%
9University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 59.025.8%3.8×9 -0.1%
10Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUnited States 57.424.5%5.8×8 +67.6%

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 Pain Management and Treatment, country by country

Is Pain Management and Treatment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 48% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Pain Management and Treatment.

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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 Pain Management and Treatment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Pain Management and Treatment 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%Pain Management and Treatment10.1% 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.

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Who leads pain research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Pain Management and Treatment research, followed by Mayo Clinic and University of Toronto. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 536 works in 2022-now).

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