Overview
Pain and Therapy is an international, open access, peer-reviewed, rapid publication journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality clinical (all phases), observational, real-world, and health outcomes research around the discovery, development, and use of pain therapies and pain-related devices. Studies relating to diagnosis, pharmacoeconomics, public health, quality of life, and patient care, management, and education are also encouraged.
Key features:
Rapid publication: The journal aims for a 2-week peer review, 3-4 weeks from acceptance to online.
Open access: All articles published open access (CC-BY-NC)
Inclusivity: All scientifically sound research considered be it positive, confirmatory or negative data. Research is considered from pre-clinical, clinical phase, real-world and health economics outcomes studies. Submissions are welcomed whether they relate to an international or a country-specific audience.
Personal service: The journal’s team will re-format articles and upload submissions on behalf of authors, if necessary.
Digital Features and Plain Language Summaries: These peer-reviewed features are welcomed to help enhance the educational value of a manuscript (for more information see “Author Information – Guidelines for digital features and plain language summaries” under “Submission guidelines”). For examples of digital features please visit:
https://springerhealthcare.com/expertise/publishing-digital-features/
Publication fees: Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be required to pay the mandatory Rapid Service Fee of €5500/$6850/£4700. The journal will consider fee discounts and waivers for developing countries and this is decided on a case by case basis. If you would like to request a discount or waiver please do so either ahead of submission or at the very start of the submission process. Requests made after this stage will not be considered.
Contact: For more information about the journal, including pre-submission enquiries, please contact Lucy Holt at lucy.holt@springer.com.
- Managing Editor
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- Lucy Holt
- Co-Editor-in-Chief
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- Andrea Trescot,
- Giustino Varrassi
- Impact factor
- 4.0 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 4.4 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 3 days
- Downloads
- 643,973 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 2193-651X
- Print ISSN
- 2193-8237
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
- DOAJ
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBASE
- EMCare
- Gale
- Google Scholar
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- PubMedCentral
- Reaxys
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- Semantic Scholar
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information