The Journal of Pain
Original Research on All Aspects of Pain
The Journal of Pain (JOP) aims to improve the care of patients in pain by providing a platform in which clinical researchers, basic scientists, clinicians, and other health professionals can publish original research. JOP is the second ranked pain journal in the world and has a current impact factor of 4.519© on 2016 Journal Citation Reports®, which rises every year.
- Articles about basic research, patient care, education, and health policy
- Clinical research reports
- Original basic research reports
- Invited critical reviews
- Invited commentaries on reviews
- Exceptional case studies
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Editorial Board
Mark P. Jensen, Editor-in-Chief, Seattle, WA
GF Gebhart, Founding Editor, Pittsburgh, PA
Kathryn Albers, Pittsburgh, PA
Karen O. Anderson, Houston, TX
Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Aalborg, Denmark
Misha-Miroslav Backonja, Madison, WI
Klaus Bielefeldt, Pittsburgh, PA
George S. Borszcz, Detroit, MI
Timothy Brennan, Iowa City, IA
Susan Carlton, Galveston, TX
C. Richard Chapman, Salt Lake City, UT
Roger Chou, Portland, OR
Charles Cleeland, Houston, TX
Geert Crombez, Brugge, Belgium
Patrick M. Dougherty, Houston, TX
Robert Dworkin, Rochester, NY
Robert R. Edwards, Boston, MA
James Eisenach, Winston-Salem, NC
Roger B. Fillingim, Gainesville, FL
Lucia Gagliese, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michael E. Geisser, Ann Arbor, MI
Michael Gold, Pittsburgh, PA
Debra B. Gordon, Madison, WI
Richard Gracely, Ann Arbor, MI
Carmen R. Green, Ann Arbor, MI
Donna Hammond, Iowa City, IA
Adam T. Hirsh, Indianapolis, IN
Prisca Honore, Abbott Park, IL
Robert Jamison, Boston, MA
Troels S. Jensen, Aarhus, Denmark
Francis Keefe, Durham, SC
Martin Koltzenburg, London, UK
John C. Lefebvre, Spartanburg, SC
Jon D. Levine, San Francisco, CA
Henrietta Logan, Gainesville, FL
Patricia A. McGrath, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jianren Mao, Boston, MA
John Markman, Rochester, NY
Lance McCracken, Bath, United Kingdom
Christine Miaskowski, San Francisco, CA
Michael Morgan, Vancouver, WA
Stephen Morley, Leeds, UK
Timothy Ness, Birmingham, AL
Warren R. Nielson, London, Ontario, Canada
Koichi Noguchi, Nishinomiya, Japan
Akiko Okifuji, Salt Lake City, UT
Judith Paice, Chicago, IL
Karin Petersen, San Francisco, CA
Frank Porreca, Tucson, AZ
Russell Portenoy, New York, NY
Rajan Radhakrishnan, Salt Lake City, UT
Alan Randich, Birmingham, AL
Ke Ren, Baltimore, MD
Daniel Riddle, Richmond, VA
Michael E. Robinson, Gainesville, FL
Jürgen Sandkühler, Vienna, Austria
Neil Schechter, Hartford, CT
Martin Schmelz, Mannheim, Germany
Marta Segerdahl, Stockholm, Sweden
Kathleen A. Sluka, Iowa City, IA
Gary Strichartz, Boston, MA
Raymond C. Tait, St. Louis, MO
Beverly E. Thorn, Tuscaloosa, AL
Masaya Tohyama, Osaka, Japan
Richard Traub, Baltimore, MD
Todd Vanderah, Tucson, AZ
Michael Vasko, Indianapolis, IN
Dieuwke S. Veldhuijzen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Gary Walco, Seattle, WA
Linda Watkins, Boulder, CO
David A. Williams, Ann Arbor, MI
Clifford Woolf, Boston, MA
Robert P. Yezierski, Gainesville, FL
James Zacny, Chicago, IL