About the journal
Pain Reviews was a peer-reviewed review journal in pain medicine published by Edward Arnold and continued under Hodder Arnold. The journal carried invited and submitted review articles covering acute and chronic pain, the neurobiology of nociception, the molecular and clinical pharmacology of analgesia, neuropathic pain mechanisms, and structured pain assessment.
The review-only format put the journal in direct conversation with the primary-research journals in the field — the International Association for the Study of Pain's journal Pain, the European Journal of Pain — and the editorial line favoured longer, methodologically rigorous syntheses over short narrative reviews. Pain pharmacology, the developing literature on opioid prescribing in chronic non-cancer pain, and the emerging psychological frameworks for chronic-pain management were all areas the journal returned to repeatedly.
The journal is no longer in active publication; back-volume articles continue to appear in citation networks for chronic-pain pharmacology and the historiography of pain assessment, particularly as the field has revisited mid-1990s assumptions in light of current opioid-prescribing concerns.
Scope
- acute and chronic pain
- neuropathic pain mechanisms
- pain pharmacology
- pain assessment
Indexing & abstracting
- Scopus
- EMBASE
- MEDLINE
Indexing coverage reflects the journal’s inclusion in standard bibliographic databases during the Arnold imprint years and (where applicable) under subsequent publishers.
Bibliographic identifiers
- ISO 4 abbreviation
- Pain Rev.
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