| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Ethical guidelines for investigations of experimental pain in conscious animals | Pain | 1983 | 6,843 |
| 2 | The McGill Pain Questionnaire: Major properties and scoring methods | Pain | 1975 | 5,648 |
| 3 | A peripheral mononeuropathy in rat that produces disorders of pain sensation like those seen in man | Pain | 1988 | 4,621 |
| 4 | A new and sensitive method for measuring thermal nociception in cutaneous hyperalgesia | Pain | 1988 | 4,531 |
| 5 | Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale | Pain | 2001 | 4,278 |
| 6 | Correlation Coefficients: Appropriate Use and Interpretation | Anesthesia and Analgesia | 2018 | 4,153 |
| 7 | Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment | European Journal of Pain | 2006 | 4,080 |
| 8 | Fear-avoidance and its consequences in chronic musculoskeletal pain: a state of the art | Pain | 2000 | 3,615 |
| 9 | The short-form McGill pain questionnaire | Pain | 1987 | 3,518 |
| 10 | Central sensitization: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of pain | Pain | 2011 | 3,166 |
| 11 | The validation of visual analogue scales as ratio scale measures for chronic and experimental pain | Pain | 1983 | 2,939 |
| 12 | Core outcome measures for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations | Pain | 2005 | 2,915 |
| 13 | Design and standardization of PCR primers and protocols for detection of clonal immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor gene recombinations in suspect lymphoproliferations: Report of the BIOMED-2 Concerted Action BMH4-CT98-3936 | Leukemia | 2003 | 2,788 |
| 14 | An experimental model for peripheral neuropathy produced by segmental spinal nerve ligation in the rat | Pain | 1992 | 2,744 |
| 15 | Central Sensitization: A Generator of Pain Hypersensitivity by Central Neural Plasticity | Journal of Pain | 2009 | 2,675 |
| 16 | Difficult tracheal intubation in obstetrics | Anaesthesia | 1984 | 2,564 |
| 17 | Interpreting the Clinical Importance of Treatment Outcomes in Chronic Pain Clinical Trials: IMMPACT Recommendations | Journal of Pain | 2008 | 2,564 |
| 18 | Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease | European Journal of Pain | 2005 | 2,538 |
| 19 | A Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) and the role of fear-avoidance beliefs in chronic low back pain and disability | Pain | 1993 | 2,515 |
| 20 | The measurement of clinical pain intensity: a comparison of six methods | Pain | 1986 | 2,498 |
| 21 | Grading the severity of chronic pain | Pain | 1992 | 2,409 |
| 22 | International uniform response criteria for multiple myeloma | Leukemia | 2006 | 2,332 |
| 23 | Multimodal approach to control postoperative pathophysiology and rehabilitation | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 1997 | 2,169 |
| 24 | The formalin test: A quantitative study of the analgesic effects of morphine, meperidine, and brain stem stimulation in rats and cats | Pain | 1977 | 2,135 |
| 25 | Graphic representation of pain | Pain | 1976 | 2,129 |
| 26 | Management of Postoperative Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Regional Anesthesia, Executive Committee, and Administrative Council | Journal of Pain | 2016 | 2,040 |
| 27 | Sex, Gender, and Pain: A Review of Recent Clinical and Experimental Findings | Journal of Pain | 2009 | 2,032 |
| 28 | Practice Guidelines for Sedation and Analgesia by Non-Anesthesiologists | Anesthesiology | 2002 | 2,021 |
| 29 | The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: Relationship to patient characteristics and current adjustment | Pain | 1983 | 2,003 |
| 30 | Cytokines, Inflammation, and Pain | International Anesthesiology Clinics | 2007 | 1,988 |
| 31 | Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway | Anesthesiology | 2013 | 1,984 |
| 32 | Theoretical Perspectives on the Relation Between Catastrophizing and Pain | Clinical Journal of Pain | 2001 | 1,971 |
| 33 | Comparison of pain syndromes associated with nervous or somatic lesions and development of a new neuropathic pain diagnostic questionnaire (DN4) | Pain | 2005 | 1,969 |
| 34 | Clinical Guidelines for the Use of Chronic Opioid Therapy in Chronic Noncancer Pain | Journal of Pain | 2009 | 1,960 |
| 35 | STOP Questionnaire | Anesthesiology | 2008 | 1,950 |
| 36 | Quantitative sensory testing in the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): Standardized protocol and reference values | Pain | 2006 | 1,939 |
| 37 | The formalin test: an evaluation of the method | Pain | 1992 | 1,932 |
| 38 | The West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (WHYMPI) | Pain | 1985 | 1,881 |
| 39 | The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises | Pain | 2020 | 1,880 |
| 40 | Fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain and its relation to behavioral performance | Pain | 1995 | 1,852 |
| 41 | Core outcome domains for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations | Pain | 2003 | 1,850 |
| 42 | Spared nerve injury: an animal model of persistent peripheral neuropathic pain | Pain | 2000 | 1,832 |
| 43 | Studies Comparing Numerical Rating Scales, Verbal Rating Scales, and Visual Analogue Scales for Assessment of Pain Intensity in Adults: A Systematic Literature Review | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 2011 | 1,812 |
| 44 | ASA Physical Status Classifications | Anesthesiology | 1978 | 1,799 |
| 45 | Contribution of central neuroplasticity to pathological pain: review of clinical and experimental evidence | Pain | 1993 | 1,752 |
| 46 | Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway | Anesthesiology | 2003 | 1,748 |
| 47 | Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: Evidence-based recommendations | Pain | 2007 | 1,740 |
| 48 | Postoperative Pain Experience: Results from a National Survey Suggest Postoperative Pain Continues to Be Undermanaged | Anesthesia and Analgesia | 2003 | 1,734 |
| 49 | The formalin test in mice: dissociation between inflammatory and non-inflammatory pain | Pain | 1987 | 1,731 |
| 50 | The induction and maintenance of central sensitization is dependent on N -methyl-d-aspartic acid receptor activation; implications for the treatment of post-injury pain hypersensitivity states | Pain | 1991 | 1,730 |
| 51 | A Simplified Risk Score for Predicting Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting | Anesthesiology | 1999 | 1,719 |
| 52 | A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11 | Pain | 2015 | 1,701 |
| 53 | The Economic Costs of Pain in the United States | Journal of Pain | 2012 | 1,696 |
| 54 | The stress response to trauma and surgery | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 2000 | 1,658 |
| 55 | Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting | Anesthesiology | 1992 | 1,655 |
| 56 | Changes in Arterial Pressure during Mechanical Ventilation | Anesthesiology | 2005 | 1,639 |
| 57 | A novel behavioral model of neuropathic pain disorders produced in rats by partial sciatic nerve injury | Pain | 1990 | 1,630 |
| 58 | Difficult tracheal intubation: a retrospective study | Anaesthesia | 1987 | 1,613 |
| 59 | The Faces Pain Scale – Revised: toward a common metric in pediatric pain measurement | Pain | 2001 | 1,577 |
| 60 | Major complications of airway management in the UK: results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society. Part 1: Anaesthesia | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 2011 | 1,558 |
| 61 | Chronic pain as a symptom or a disease: the IASP Classification of Chronic Pain for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) | Pain | 2019 | 1,547 |
| 62 | Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 2015 | 1,544 |
| 63 | Preemptive Analgesia—Treating Postoperative Pain by Preventing the Establishment of Central Sensitization | Anesthesia and Analgesia | 1993 | 1,530 |
| 64 | Measuring fatigue and other anemia-related symptoms with the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) measurement system | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 1997 | 1,517 |
| 65 | GRADING OF PATIENTS FOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES | Anesthesiology | 1941 | 1,509 |
| 66 | Assessment of chronic pain. I. Aspects of the reliability and validity of the visual analogue scale | Pain | 1983 | 1,485 |
| 67 | Ketamine—Its Pharmacology and Therapeutic Uses | Anesthesiology | 1982 | 1,473 |
| 68 | Opioid Complications and Side Effects | Pain Physician | 2008 | 1,466 |
| 69 | Goal-directed Intraoperative Fluid Administration Reduces Length of Hospital Stay after Major Surgery | Anesthesiology | 2002 | 1,435 |
| 70 | Comparative Diagnostic Performances of Auscultation, Chest Radiography, and Lung Ultrasonography in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome | Anesthesiology | 2004 | 1,428 |
| 71 | Perioperative Cardiac Morbidity | Anesthesiology | 1990 | 1,418 |
| 72 | Assessment of pain | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 2008 | 1,408 |
| 73 | Embryonic stem cell-derived microvesicles reprogram hematopoietic progenitors: evidence for horizontal transfer of mRNA and protein delivery | Leukemia | 2006 | 1,405 |
| 74 | The Erector Spinae Plane Block | Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine | 2016 | 1,391 |
| 75 | Standardization and quality control studies of ‘real-time’ quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction of fusion gene transcripts for residual disease detection in leukemia – A Europe Against Cancer Program | Leukemia | 2003 | 1,359 |
| 76 | Prevalence of chronic pain with neuropathic characteristics in the general population | Pain | 2008 | 1,355 |
| 77 | Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour therapy for chronic pain in adults, excluding headache | Pain | 1999 | 1,351 |
| 78 | Development of the Wisconsin Brief Pain Questionnaire to assess pain in cancer and other diseases | Pain | 1983 | 1,338 |
| 79 | Sex differences in pain: a brief review of clinical and experimental findings | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 2013 | 1,332 |
| 80 | A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Use of Preemptive Hemodynamic Intervention to Improve Postoperative Outcomes in Moderate and High-Risk Surgical Patients | Anesthesia and Analgesia | 2011 | 1,328 |
| 81 | Psoriatic arthritis | Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism | 1973 | 1,327 |
| 82 | Pain-related fear is more disabling than pain itself: evidence on the role of pain-related fear in chronic back pain disability | Pain | 1999 | 1,316 |
| 83 | Variability of Blood Glucose Concentration and Short-term Mortality in Critically Ill Patients | Anesthesiology | 2006 | 1,305 |
| 84 | Landscape of genetic lesions in 944 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes | Leukemia | 2014 | 1,291 |
| 85 | The epidemiology of chronic pain in children and adolescents revisited: A systematic review | Pain | 2011 | 1,290 |
| 86 | A Primer for EEG Signal Processing in Anesthesia | Anesthesiology | 1998 | 1,286 |
| 87 | The visual analogue pain intensity scale: what is moderate pain in millimetres? | Pain | 1997 | 1,273 |
| 88 | When is cancer pain mild, moderate or severe? Grading pain severity by its interference with function | Pain | 1995 | 1,265 |
| 89 | Pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 2007 | 1,264 |
| 90 | Chronic Pain as an Outcome of Surgery | Anesthesiology | 2000 | 1,250 |
| 91 | Gender variations in clinical pain experience | Pain | 1996 | 1,248 |
| 92 | Early Exposure to Anesthesia and Learning Disabilities in a Population-based Birth Cohort | Anesthesiology | 2009 | 1,246 |
| 93 | Monitoring Brain Oxygen Saturation During Coronary Bypass Surgery: A Randomized, Prospective Study | Anesthesia and Analgesia | 2007 | 1,245 |
| 94 | Validity of four pain intensity rating scales | Pain | 2011 | 1,245 |
| 95 | Predictors of Cognitive Dysfunction after Major Noncardiac Surgery | Anesthesiology | 2008 | 1,232 |
| 96 | Acute Pain after Thoracic Surgery Predicts Long-Term Post-Thoracotomy Pain | Clinical Journal of Pain | 1996 | 1,228 |
| 97 | The 5th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Haematolymphoid Tumours: Myeloid and Histiocytic/Dendritic Neoplasms | Leukemia | 2022 | 1,211 |
| 98 | Membrane-derived microvesicles: important and underappreciated mediators of cell-to-cell communication | Leukemia | 2006 | 1,208 |
| 99 | Bispectral Analysis Measures Sedation and Memory Effects of Propofol, Midazolam, Isoflurane, and Alfentanil in Healthy Volunteers | Anesthesiology | 1997 | 1,203 |
| 100 | Influence of Age and Gender on the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Remifentanil | Anesthesiology | 1997 | 1,201 |
