Chi Shao-Yu, Wu Wei-Ting, Chang Ke-Vin, Özçakar Levent
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2025 Feb 28;104(9):e41732. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000041732.
Pain, a critical symptom prevalent in various diseases and syndromes, has garnered increased attention in recent scientific literature. Bibliometric analyses can offer valuable multi-disciplinary insights into pain. This bibliometric analysis focused on journals with "pain" in their titles.
Using the Master Journal List in the Web of Science (WoS) database (up to December 31, 2024), we searched all the journals indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) or Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) with "pain" in their titles. For further analyses, we extracted data about the journals including publisher, country, language, frequency, SCIE/SSCI categories, journal impact factor, and citation.
We identified 19 journals with "pain" in their titles. All the included journals were indexed in SCIE, with Pain Management Nursing also indexed in SSCI. More than half of the journals were published in the United States of America or the United Kingdom, and all were in English. Regarding the SCIE categories, 13 journals were listed in "clinical neurology," 8 in "anesthesiology," and 5 in "neurosciences." From 2018 to 2022, either Pain or Journal of Headache and Pain maintained the highest impact factor. Furthermore, Pain held the record for the most citable articles and reviews and the most total citations in 2022.
This study is the first bibliometric analysis of journals, rather than articles, in the field of pain. Pain is the most recognized journal in the field, with the highest number of citations and the highest average impact factor. In the future, bibliometric studies should explore other relevant journals without the word "pain" in their titles, in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the scientific literature on pain studies.
疼痛是各种疾病和综合征中普遍存在的关键症状，在最近的科学文献中受到了越来越多的关注。文献计量分析可以为疼痛研究提供有价值的多学科见解。本文献计量分析聚焦于标题中包含“疼痛”的期刊。
利用科学网（WoS）数据库中的主期刊列表（截至2024年12月31日），我们搜索了标题中包含“疼痛”的所有被科学引文索引扩展版（SCIE）或社会科学引文索引（SSCI）收录的期刊。为了进行进一步分析，我们提取了这些期刊的相关数据，包括出版商、国家、语言、出版频率、SCIE/SSCI类别、期刊影响因子和被引频次。
我们识别出19种标题中包含“疼痛”的期刊。所有纳入的期刊均被SCIE收录，《疼痛管理护理》还被SSCI收录。超过一半的期刊由美国或英国出版，且均为英文期刊。关于SCIE类别，13种期刊列在“临床神经病学”类别，8种在“麻醉学”类别，5种在“神经科学”类别。2018年至2022年期间，《疼痛》或《头痛与疼痛杂志》的影响因子最高。此外，《疼痛》在2022年拥有可引用文章和综述数量最多以及总被引频次最高的记录。
本研究是疼痛领域首次对期刊而非文章进行的文献计量分析。《疼痛》是该领域最知名的期刊，拥有最高的被引频次和最高的平均影响因子。未来，文献计量研究应探索标题中不包含“疼痛”一词的其他相关期刊，以便更全面地了解疼痛研究的科学文献。
