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PAIN Reports

Wolters Kluwer·United States·ISSN 2471-2531

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

PAIN Reports is published by Wolters Kluwer as an open access journal (ISSN 2471-2531). The list article processing charge is $2,500. Typical time to publication is 8 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 62. Primary field: Medicine. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$2,500

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

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Time to publication

8 wks

Fast for a peer-reviewed journal — check what review depth that implies.

h-index

62

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

2.8

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in PAIN Reports is listed at $2,500. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningNot reported
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

7 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects PAIN Reports publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Pain Mechanisms and TreatmentsMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationPediatric Pain Management TechniquesPain Management and Opioid UseFibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ResearchPain Management and Placebo EffectPain Management and TreatmentAnesthesia and Pain ManagementOpioid Use Disorder TreatmentSpine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology

Publication record

Indexed articles922
Total citations16,852
i10-index392
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2016
All ISSNs2471-2531

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.