| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Impact of Psychological Factors in the Experience of Pain | Physical Therapy | 2011 | 538 |
| 2 | Manipulating optimism: Can imagining a best possible self be used to increase positive future expectancies? | Journal of Positive Psychology | 2010 | 221 |
| 3 | Understanding the link between depression and pain | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2011 | 162 |
| 4 | A randomized controlled trial of exposure in vivo for patients with spinal pain reporting fear of work‐related activities | European Journal of Pain | 2008 | 122 |
| 5 | Chronotype, circadian rhythms and mood | Current Opinion in Psychology | 2020 | 84 |
| 6 | Sleep Disturbance and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: The Role of Catastrophic Worry | Journal of Youth and Adolescence | 2013 | 63 |
| 7 | Painfully reassuring? The effects of validation on emotions and adherence in a pain test | European Journal of Pain | 2012 | 59 |
| 8 | Is There a Bidirectional Link Between Insomnia and Burnout? A Prospective Study in the Swedish Workforce | International Journal of Behavioral Medicine | 2010 | 52 |
| 9 | Reducing the threat value of chronic pain: A preliminary replicated single-case study of interoceptive exposure versus distraction in six individuals with chronic back pain | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2009 | 43 |
| 10 | Happy despite pain: Pilot study of a positive psychology intervention for patients with chronic pain | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2015 | 43 |
| 11 | I see you’re in pain – The effects of partner validation on emotions in people with chronic pain | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2015 | 37 |
| 12 | How does change unfold? an evaluation of the process of change in four people with chronic low back pain and high pain-related fear managed with Cognitive Functional Therapy: A replicated single-case experimental design study | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2019 | 34 |
| 13 | From Fear to Safety: A Roadmap to Recovery From Musculoskeletal Pain | Physical Therapy | 2022 | 30 |
| 14 | Both early and late changes in psychological variables relate to treatment outcome for musculoskeletal pain patients at risk for disability | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2012 | 29 |
| 15 | Applying dialectical behavior therapy to chronic pain: A case study | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2010 | 28 |
| 16 | Psychological factors in genital pain: The role of fear-avoidance, pain catastrophizing and anxiety sensitivity among women living in Sweden | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2014 | 28 |
| 17 | The role of emotion dysregulation in insomnia: Longitudinal findings from a large community sample | British Journal of Health Psychology | 2016 | 25 |
| 18 | Early Psychologically Informed Interventions for Workers at Risk for Pain-Related Disability: Does Matching Treatment to Profile Improve Outcome? | Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation | 2014 | 24 |
| 19 | Associations of mental health and family background with opioid analgesic therapy: a nationwide Swedish register-based study | Pain | 2019 | 24 |
| 20 | Pain patients’ experiences of validation and invalidation from physicians before and after multimodal pain rehabilitation: Associations with pain, negative affectivity, and treatment outcome | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2017 | 23 |
| 21 | The affective personality, sleep, and autobiographical memories | Journal of Positive Psychology | 2013 | 22 |
| 22 | The role of positive and negative affect on well-being amongst Swedish and Iranian university students | Journal of Positive Psychology | 2013 | 22 |
| 23 | Approach as a key for success: Reduced avoidance behaviour mediates the effect of exposure therapy for fibromyalgia | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2019 | 22 |
| 24 | Developmental differences in episodic memory across school ages: evidence from enacted events performed by self and others | Memory | 2017 | 21 |
| 25 | Pain-related fear, catastrophizing and pain in the recovery from a fracture | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2010 | 19 |
| 26 | My body is not working right: a cognitive behavioral model of body image and chronic pain | Pain | 2020 | 19 |
| 27 | Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility of Internet-Delivered Exposure Therapy for Fibromyalgia: Results From a Randomized, Controlled Trial | Journal of Pain | 2019 | 18 |
| 28 | Insomnia is a risk factor for spreading of chronic pain: A Swedish longitudinal population study (SwePain) | European Journal of Pain | 2020 | 18 |
| 29 | Cognitive vulnerability in the development of concomitant pain and sleep disturbances | British Journal of Health Psychology | 2010 | 17 |
| 30 | Don't worry, be constructive: A randomized controlled feasibility study comparing behaviour therapy singly and combined with constructive worry for insomnia | British Journal of Clinical Psychology | 2012 | 17 |
| 31 | Understanding Co-occurring Emotion and Pain: The Role of Context Sensitivity from a Transdiagnostic Perspective | Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy | 2016 | 17 |
| 32 | Exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome. A single-case experimental design across 13 subjects | Cognitive Behaviour Therapy | 2016 | 17 |
| 33 | Understanding catastrophizing from a misdirected problem‐solving perspective | British Journal of Health Psychology | 2012 | 16 |
| 34 | The role of executive functions in bilingual children with reading difficulties | Scandinavian Journal of Psychology | 2015 | 16 |
| 35 | Characteristics and consequences of the co-occurrence between social anxiety and pain-related fear in chronic pain patients receiving multimodal pain rehabilitation treatment | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2016 | 16 |
| 36 | How Does Adolescents’ Openness to Diversity Change Over Time? The Role of Majority-Minority Friendship, Friends’ Views, and Classroom Social Context | Journal of Youth and Adolescence | 2021 | 15 |
| 37 | Coping with painful sex: Development and initial validation of the CHAMP Sexual Pain Coping Scale | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2015 | 12 |
| 38 | “When I feel the worst pain, I look like shit” – body image concerns in persistent pain | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2018 | 12 |
| 39 | Changes in insomnia as a risk factor for the incidence and persistence of anxiety and depression: a longitudinal community study | Sleep Science and Practice | 2021 | 12 |
| 40 | Living with genital pain: Sexual function, satisfaction, and help-seeking among women living in Sweden | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2014 | 11 |
| 41 | Changes in Catastrophizing and Depressed Mood During and After Early Cognitive Behaviorally Oriented Interventions for Pain | Cognitive Behaviour Therapy | 2014 | 10 |
| 42 | Psychometric properties of the Insomnia Catastrophizing Scale (ICS) in a large community sample | Cognitive Behaviour Therapy | 2020 | 10 |
| 43 | Face-to-Face Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Effects on Gastrointestinal and Psychiatric Symptoms | Gastroenterology Research and Practice | 2017 | 9 |
| 44 | Avoiding or enduring painful sex? A prospective study of coping and psychosexual function in vulvovaginal pain | European Journal of Pain | 2018 | 9 |
| 45 | Chronic pain conditions and risk of suicidal behavior: a 10-year longitudinal co-twin control study | BMC Medicine | 2023 | 9 |
| 46 | Customized CBT via internet for adolescents with pain and emotional distress: A pilot study | Internet Interventions | 2016 | 8 |
| 47 | When Matching Fails: Understanding the Process of Matching Pain-Disability Treatment to Risk Profile | Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation | 2015 | 7 |
| 48 | The role of psychiatric and somatic conditions in incidence and persistence of insomnia: a longitudinal, community study | Sleep Health | 2016 | 7 |
| 49 | Internet delivered transdiagnostic treatment with telephone support for pain patients with emotional comorbidity: a replicated single case study | Internet Interventions | 2017 | 7 |
| 50 | Cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome: the effects on state and trait anxiety and the autonomic nervous system during induced rectal distensions – An uncontrolled trial | Scandinavian Journal of Pain | 2018 | 7 |
