Open Pain Journal

Aims & Scope

The Open Pain Journal is an open access journal that publishes original full length, reviews/mini-reviews, short research articles (letters) and guest-edited single-topic issues in all important areas of pain research including pain medicine, genetics, neurology, internal medicine, clinical pharmacology, child neuropediatrics, anesthesiology, rheumatology, otology, dentistry, neurotraumatology, neurosurgery, meta analyses of drugs for pain management and clinical studies. The Open Pain Journal , a peer reviewed journal, is an important and reliable source of current information on recent developments in the field. Emphasis is placed on publishing quality papers, making them freely available to researchers worldwide. The Open Pain Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal covering all aspects of pain published continuously by Bentham Open.

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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Subject Classification