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Pediatric Pain Management Techniques

Pediatric Pain Management Techniques is a research topic within Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment and management of pain in pediatric populations, including neonates, infants, children, and adolescents. It covers topics such as the epidemiology of chronic pain, validation of pain measurement tools, use of virtual reality for pain reduction, psychological interventions for pain and distress, impact of parental factors on pediatric pain, and the long-term consequences of early life pain experiences.

  • Pediatric Pain
  • Pain Measurement
  • Chronic Pain
  • Adolescents
  • Neonatal Pain
  • Pain Management
  • Virtual Reality Distraction
  • Psychological Interventions
  • Pain Assessment Tools
  • Family Impact
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pediatric Pain Management Techniques

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

Which countries lead Pediatric Pain Management Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (1.8k and 506 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 Türkiye 506 works
  3. 3 China 502 works
  4. 4 India 455 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 382 works
  6. 6 Canada 341 works
  7. 7 Brazil 297 works
  8. 8 Australia 229 works
  9. 9 Germany 209 works
  10. 10 Spain 203 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: 36.3%Türkiye: 10.3%China: 10.2%India: 9.3%6 others listed: 33.9%36%largest
United States1,777 · 36.3%Türkiye506 · 10.3%China502 · 10.2%India455 · 9.3%6 others listed1,659 · 33.9%

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

Which institutions lead Pediatric Pain Management Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Pediatric Pain Management Techniques research, followed by University of Toronto and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 78 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 58 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 48 works
  4. 4 Stanford UniversityUnited States 45 works
  5. 5 University of CincinnatiUnited States 39 works
  6. 6 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 39 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 29 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 28 works
  9. 9 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 28 works
  10. 10 Université de MontréalCanada 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pediatric Pain Management Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pediatric Pain Management Techniques include David Moher, George Davey Smith and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  4. 4 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Louisa J Degenhardt Australia 269k citations
  7. 7 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  8. 8 Asbjørn Hróbjartsson Denmark 252k 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 Pediatric Pain Management Techniques?

The most cited paper in Pediatric Pain Management Techniques is "Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment" (Harald Breivik, Beverly Collett, Vittorio Ventafridda et al., 2005), with 5,568 citations. Next come "Pain assessment: global use of the Brief Pain Inventory." (5,290) and "PedsQL™ 4.0: Reliability and Validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Version 4.0 Generic Core Scales in Healthy and Patient Populations" (5,180).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment Harald Breivik, Beverly Collett, Vittorio Ventafridda et al. · European Journal of Pain Open access 11 Aug 2005 5,568
2 Pain assessment: global use of the Brief Pain Inventory. Cleeland Cs, Ryan Km · PubMed Mar 1994 5,290
3 PedsQL™ 4.0: Reliability and Validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Version 4.0 Generic Core Scales in Healthy and Patient Populations James W. Varni, Michael Seid, Paul S. Kurtin · Medical Care Aug 2001 5,180
4 The biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain: Scientific advances and future directions. Robert J. Gatchel, Yuan Bo Peng, Madelon L. Peters et al. · Psychological Bulletin Open access 2007 3,405
5 The PedsQL™: Measurement Model for the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory James W. Varni, Michael Seid, Cheryl A. Rode · Medical Care Feb 1999 3,347
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Where is Pediatric Pain Management Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Pediatric Pain Management Techniques research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), London (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cincinnati.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 113 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 103 works
  3. 3 TorontoCanada 86 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 80 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 68 works
  6. 6 MontrealCanada 57 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 54 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 53 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 51 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CincinnatiUS · 40.9 works7.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pediatric Pain Management Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pediatric Pain Management Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia 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 19.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Britis…University of TorontoHarvard UniversityStanford 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 TorontoCanada 73.513.8%4.5×58 +13.8%
2University of British ColumbiaCanada 66.219.0%3.1×24 +15.7%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.411.9%3.9×78 -11.7%
4Stanford UniversityUnited States 61.710.7%4.8×46 +12.6%
5Universität HamburgGermany 60.625.8%2.0×9 +30.5%
6National University of SingaporeSingapore 60.130.9%1.2×9 +89.3%
7McGill UniversityCanada 59.314.5%3.6×23 +3.7%
8Monash UniversityAustralia 59.325.0%1.9×12 +37.3%
9Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 59.218.5%5.5×18 +8.8%
10Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 59.124.1%2.8×11 +42.7%

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 Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, country by country

Is Pediatric Pain Management Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Pediatric Pain Management Techniques.

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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 Pediatric Pain Management Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Pediatric Pain Management Techniques0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Pediatric Pain Management Techniques 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%Pediatric Pain Management Techniques10.1% 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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