Home›Search›Pain Reports

Pain Reports

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins · United States · Est. 1994

ISSN2471-2531eISSN2471-2531

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.162

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.296

Total Worksi

871

Total Citationsi

15,741

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.38

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Anesthesiology; Clinical Neurology; Neurosciences; Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1994

FrequencyBimonthly, 2017-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications871

Publisher OrgWolters Kluwer

OA Since2015

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

📦 Long-term Preservation

Portico

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

9/11 · 82%

✅

Do you know the journal / publisher?

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

✅

Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

✅

Is the ISSN verified?

2471-2531 / 2471-2531

✅

Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

✅

Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

❌

Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

✅

Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

✅

Long-term digital preservation?

Portico

❌

Plagiarism detection in place?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

✅

Primary language documented?

English

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.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

101

2.9k

2019

2.2k

2020

112

3.1k

2021

959

2022

889

2023

109

752

2024

149

247

2025

111

2026

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.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

AnesthesiologyClinical NeurologyNeurosciences

Scopus Categories

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Pain Mechanisms and TreatmentsMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationPediatric Pain Management TechniquesPain Management and Opioid UseFibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ResearchPain Management and Placebo EffectPain Management and TreatmentAnesthesia and Pain ManagementOpioid Use Disorder TreatmentSpine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology

Frequently asked questions about Pain Reports

Is Pain Reports a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Pain Reports: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Pain Reports?

Pain Reports is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 2.38.

Is Pain Reports indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Pain Reports is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Pain Reports?