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The Journal of Headache and Pain is a peer-reviewed journal published by BMC (BioMed Central), covering Migraine and Headache Studies, Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments, Neurological Complications and Syndromes. Over its lifetime it has published 4,118 papers, which have received 102,629 citations.

PublisherBMC (BioMed Central)
Reference styleNumbered (Vancouver)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. The Journal of Headache and Pain. 2023;12(3):45–58.

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Publishes research inMigraine and Headache Studies Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments Neurological Complications and Syndromes Sympathectomy and Hyperhidrosis Treatments Traumatic Brain Injury Research
ISSN1129-2369
Citation impact (2-yr)7.03
h-index129
i10-index1,970
Article processing charge$2,686
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereSapienza University of Rome
Journal websitethejournalofheadacheandpain.biomedcentral.com
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Papers published in The Journal of Headache and Pain per year

451
2014
303
2015
110
2016
121
2017
122
2018
120
2019
140
2020
158
2021
164
2022
171
2023
227
2024
321
2025

Citation impact of The Journal of Headache and Pain by publication year

4.8K
2014
7.1K
2015
5.5K
2016
6.4K
2017
7.7K
2018
7.9K
2019
8.7K
2020
5.4K
2021
6.1K
2022
5K
2023
3.5K
2024
1.5K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The Journal of Headache and Pain

The global prevalence of headache: an update, with analysis of the influences of methodological factors on prevalence estimates

Lars Jacob Stovner, Knut Hagen, Mattias Linde et al. · 11 Apr 2022

BACKGROUND: According to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, headache disorders are among the most prevalent and disabling conditions worldwide. GBD builds on epidemiological studies (published and unpublished) which are notable for wide variations in both their methodologies and their prevalence estimates. Our first aim was to update the documentation of headache epidemiological studies,…

Prevalence of headache in Europe: a review for the Eurolight project

Lars Jacob Stovner, Colette Andrée · 15 May 2010

The main aim of the present study was to do an update on studies on headache epidemiology as a preparation for the multinational European study on the prevalence and burden of headache and investigate the impact of different methodological issues on the results. The study was based on a previous study, and a systematic literature…

European Headache Federation guideline on the use of monoclonal antibodies targeting the calcitonin gene related peptide pathway for migraine prevention – 2022 update

Simona Sacco, Faisal Mohammad Amin, Messoud Ashina et al. · 11 Jun 2022

BACKGROUND: A previous European Headache Federation (EHF) guideline addressed the use of monoclonal antibodies targeting the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) pathway to prevent migraine. Since then, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and real-world evidence have expanded the evidence and knowledge for those treatments. Therefore, the EHF panel decided to provide an updated guideline on the use…

The global burden of migraine: measuring disability in headache disorders with WHO's Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

Matilde Leonardi, TJ Steiner, I Scher et al. · 1 Dec 2005

This overview of the published epidemiological evidence of migraine helps to identify the size of the public-health problem that migraine represents. It also highlights the need for further epidemiological studies in many parts of the world to gain full understanding of the scale of clinical, economic and humanistic burdens attributable to it. This paper presents…

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