Journal of Pain Research

Aims and Scope

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Michael Schatman

Journal of Pain Research is an international, open access journal that focuses on concise rapid reporting of high-quality laboratory and clinical findings in all fields of pain research and the prevention and management of pain.

All meta-analyses require a pre-submission check prior to submitting to the Journal of Pain Research. Please complete the pre-submission check form here.

Specific topics covered by the journal include:
• Basic and applied pain research
• Multidisciplinary pain research
• Neuromodulation
• Palliative care and pain management
• Behavioral management of pain
• Drug studies
• Opioids
• Genetics in pain
• Pain mechanisms
• Ethical decision making

Original research, reviews, symposium reports, hypothesis formation, study protocols and commentaries are all considered for publication. 

The journal welcomes submissions to the following sections:

• Acute Pain and Perioperative Care
• Behavioral Approaches to Pain
• Cancer Pain and Palliative Care
• Dental Pain
• Ethics/Policy
• Headache and Facial Pain
• Integrative/Acupuncture
• Minimally Invasive Spine Procedures, Neuromodulation and Interventional Pain
• Musculoskeletal Pain/Rehabilitation and Neuropathic Pain
• Nursing in Pain Care
• Opioids and Substance Abuse
• Pain Education and Early Career Investigators
• Pain in Older Adults
• Pediatric Pain
• Pharmacology
• Pre-Clinical/Scientific
• Regenerative Pain Medicine
• Surgical Approaches to Pain

Case reports submitted to the Journal of Pain Research will be diverted to the International Medical Case Reports Journal (Journal metric data for this journal can be accessed here).

The Journal of Pain Research will no longer consider bibliometric analyses for publication.

Updated 25 November 2025