| # | 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 | Fear-avoidance and its consequences in chronic musculoskeletal pain: a state of the art | Pain | 2000 | 3,615 |
| 7 | The short-form McGill pain questionnaire | Pain | 1987 | 3,518 |
| 8 | Central sensitization: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of pain | Pain | 2011 | 3,166 |
| 9 | The validation of visual analogue scales as ratio scale measures for chronic and experimental pain | Pain | 1983 | 2,939 |
| 10 | Core outcome measures for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations | Pain | 2005 | 2,915 |
| 11 | An experimental model for peripheral neuropathy produced by segmental spinal nerve ligation in the rat | Pain | 1992 | 2,744 |
| 12 | A Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) and the role of fear-avoidance beliefs in chronic low back pain and disability | Pain | 1993 | 2,515 |
| 13 | The measurement of clinical pain intensity: a comparison of six methods | Pain | 1986 | 2,498 |
| 14 | Grading the severity of chronic pain | Pain | 1992 | 2,409 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Graphic representation of pain | Pain | 1976 | 2,129 |
| 17 | The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: Relationship to patient characteristics and current adjustment | Pain | 1983 | 2,003 |
| 18 | Comparison of pain syndromes associated with nervous or somatic lesions and development of a new neuropathic pain diagnostic questionnaire (DN4) | Pain | 2005 | 1,969 |
| 19 | Quantitative sensory testing in the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): Standardized protocol and reference values | Pain | 2006 | 1,939 |
| 20 | The formalin test: an evaluation of the method | Pain | 1992 | 1,932 |
| 21 | The West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (WHYMPI) | Pain | 1985 | 1,881 |
| 22 | The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises | Pain | 2020 | 1,880 |
| 23 | Fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain and its relation to behavioral performance | Pain | 1995 | 1,852 |
| 24 | Core outcome domains for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations | Pain | 2003 | 1,850 |
| 25 | Spared nerve injury: an animal model of persistent peripheral neuropathic pain | Pain | 2000 | 1,832 |
| 26 | Contribution of central neuroplasticity to pathological pain: review of clinical and experimental evidence | Pain | 1993 | 1,752 |
| 27 | Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: Evidence-based recommendations | Pain | 2007 | 1,740 |
| 28 | The formalin test in mice: dissociation between inflammatory and non-inflammatory pain | Pain | 1987 | 1,731 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11 | Pain | 2015 | 1,701 |
| 31 | A novel behavioral model of neuropathic pain disorders produced in rats by partial sciatic nerve injury | Pain | 1990 | 1,630 |
| 32 | The Faces Pain Scale – Revised: toward a common metric in pediatric pain measurement | Pain | 2001 | 1,577 |
| 33 | 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 |
| 34 | Assessment of chronic pain. I. Aspects of the reliability and validity of the visual analogue scale | Pain | 1983 | 1,485 |
| 35 | Prevalence of chronic pain with neuropathic characteristics in the general population | Pain | 2008 | 1,355 |
| 36 | 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 |
| 37 | Development of the Wisconsin Brief Pain Questionnaire to assess pain in cancer and other diseases | Pain | 1983 | 1,338 |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | The epidemiology of chronic pain in children and adolescents revisited: A systematic review | Pain | 2011 | 1,290 |
| 40 | The visual analogue pain intensity scale: what is moderate pain in millimetres? | Pain | 1997 | 1,273 |
| 41 | When is cancer pain mild, moderate or severe? Grading pain severity by its interference with function | Pain | 1995 | 1,265 |
| 42 | Gender variations in clinical pain experience | Pain | 1996 | 1,248 |
| 43 | Validity of four pain intensity rating scales | Pain | 2011 | 1,245 |
| 44 | The economic burden of back pain in the UK | Pain | 2000 | 1,198 |
| 45 | Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC). I. Effects on dorsal horn convergent neurones in the rat | Pain | 1979 | 1,177 |
| 46 | Algorithm for neuropathic pain treatment: An evidence based proposal | Pain | 2005 | 1,142 |
| 47 | Neuropathic pain in the general population: A systematic review of epidemiological studies | Pain | 2014 | 1,103 |
| 48 | A new definition of neuropathic pain | Pain | 2011 | 1,074 |
| 49 | Efficacy of multidisciplinary pain treatment centers: a meta-analytic review | Pain | 1992 | 1,053 |
| 50 | Comparative reliability and validity of chronic pain intensity measures | Pain | 1999 | 1,039 |
