Clinical Journal of Pain

《Clinical Journal of Pain》是 1985 年创刊的月刊，由 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 出版。

刊物从临床角度讨论疼痛的机制、评估与治疗，读者横跨麻醉、神经、骨科、精神与康复等专科。

2025 年期刊影响因子为 3.2，五年影响因子为 3.4，在麻醉学 72 种期刊中排第 21 位。

Scope

• Chronic pain management is the core subject, from low back pain and neuropathic pain to pain that persists after surgery.慢性疼痛的临床管理是核心题目，从腰背痛、神经病理性疼痛到手术后持续疼痛。
• Assessment instruments recur throughout the journal, and papers are expected to report reliability, validity and clinical interpretability.评估工具在刊物中反复出现，论文须报告信度、效度与临床可解释性。
• Drug treatment covers opioids, non-steroidal agents, anticonvulsants and antidepressants, with efficacy and safety reported side by side.药物治疗覆盖阿片类、非甾体药物、抗惊厥药与抗抑郁药，疗效与安全性并列报告。
• Interventional work includes nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal drug delivery.介入治疗包括神经阻滞、射频消融、脊髓电刺激与椎管内给药。
• Perioperative analgesia is studied through multimodal regimens and opioid-sparing protocols for surgical patients.围手术期镇痛通过多模式方案与阿片节约策略在手术患者中得到研究。
• Psychosocial factors enter through catastrophising, fear avoidance, depression and sleep disturbance, and are treated as modifiable targets.心理社会因素通过灾难化、恐惧回避、抑郁与睡眠障碍进入研究，并被当作可干预的目标。
• Pain in children and adolescents is a distinct topic, with developmental differences and family context taken into account.儿童与青少年疼痛是独立题目，研究顾及发育差异与家庭环境。
• Pain in older adults is reported with attention to polypharmacy, cognitive impairment and frailty.老年疼痛研究关注多重用药、认知障碍与衰弱的影响。
• Neuropathic pain is assessed with quantitative sensory testing, skin biopsy and imaging, and diagnostic uncertainty is discussed openly.神经病理性疼痛通过定量感觉测试、皮肤活检与影像评估，诊断上的不确定被公开讨论。
• Headache and facial pain appear in clinical studies that connect the journal to neurology readers.头面痛与偏头痛出现在临床研究中，把刊物与神经科读者联系起来。
• Opioid prescribing, misuse risk and tapering are handled as clinical problems rather than as policy commentary alone.阿片类处方、误用风险与减量被当作临床问题处理，而不只是政策评论。
• Rehabilitation and physical therapy papers examine exercise prescription, graded activity and return to function.康复与物理治疗论文考察运动处方、分级活动与功能恢复。
• Patient-reported outcomes and minimal clinically important differences are required in trials of treatment effect.疗效试验须报告患者报告结局与最小临床重要差异。
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are accepted when the search strategy and risk-of-bias assessment are transparent.系统综述与荟萃分析在检索策略与偏倚风险评估透明时被接受。
• Case series and clinical observations are published for uncommon presentations, with limitations stated plainly.病例系列与临床观察用于报告少见表现，并明确说明其局限。
• Health services research looks at access to pain clinics, referral pathways and the cost of care.卫生服务研究考察疼痛门诊的可及性、转诊路径与照护成本。
• Ethical questions include opioid prescribing responsibility, placebo use and the protection of vulnerable patients.伦理问题包括阿片处方的责任、安慰剂的使用与弱势患者的保护。
• Special topic issues gather work on postoperative pain, neuropathic pain and pain education.专刊围绕术后疼痛、神经病理性疼痛与疼痛教育等主题组稿。

• Pain after amputation and phantom phenomena are studied with central and peripheral explanations placed side by side.截肢后疼痛与幻肢现象的研究把中枢解释与外周解释并列呈现。
• Digital and self-management interventions are judged on engagement and on function rather than on pain intensity alone.数字与自我管理干预以参与程度与功能改善作为评价重点，而不只看疼痛强度。
• Opioid rotation, equianalgesic dosing and adverse effects are reported in enough detail for other clinicians to adopt the protocol.阿片轮换、等效剂量与不良反应的报告详细到其他临床医生可以照此执行。

History

• The journal was founded in 1985, when pain medicine was forming as a clinical field of its own in the United States.该刊于 1985 年创刊，当时疼痛医学正在美国形成独立的临床领域。
• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins has published the title throughout, and the house joined Wolters Kluwer in the 1990s.刊物始终由 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 出版，该出版机构在 1990 年代并入 Wolters Kluwer。
• It appears monthly in twelve issues a year, with articles gathered into numbered volumes.刊物为月刊，每年十二期，文章按编号卷汇集。
• Review has been oriented towards clinical usefulness, so trials and case material sit side by side in the same issues.评审以临床实用性为取向，试验与病例材料因此并列出现在同一期中。
• As pain came to be defined as a biopsychosocial phenomenon in the 1990s, the journal's subject matter widened accordingly.1990 年代疼痛被重新定义为生物心理社会现象，刊物的选题范围随之扩大。
• Interventional pain treatment grew through the 2000s, and papers on blocks and neuromodulation increased.介入疼痛治疗在 2000 年代兴起，神经阻滞与神经调控论文随之增多。
• The opioid crisis reshaped the journal's agenda in the 2010s, with more work on prescribing safety and tapering.阿片危机在 2010 年代改变了刊物的议程，处方安全与减量研究明显增多。
• Impact factors ran at 3.442 in 2021, 3.423 in 2022, 2.6 in 2023, 3.1 in 2024 and 3.2 in 2025.影响因子在 2021 年为 3.442，2022 年为 3.423，2023 年为 2.6，2024 年为 3.1，2025 年为 3.2。
• The 2025 report counted 7813 citations, 60 articles and 64 citable items.2025 年报告统计该刊被引 7813 次，论文 60 篇，可引用条目 64 项。
• About 14 percent of recent content is gold open access, while most articles remain behind a subscription.近期内容约有 14% 为金色开放获取，多数文章仍通过订阅获取。
• The title is indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed, the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus and PsycINFO.该刊被 MEDLINE 与 PubMed、科学引文索引扩展版、Scopus 与 PsycINFO 收录。
• It is ranked in two JCR categories, anaesthesiology and clinical neurology, and holds a place in both.该刊在两个 JCR 类别中排名，即麻醉学与临床神经病学，并在两类中都占有一席。
• Manuscripts are handled through Editorial Manager, where authors follow the progress of review.投稿经 Editorial Manager 系统处理，作者可以在系统中跟踪评审进度。

Editors

• Dennis C. Turk of the University of Washington is editor-in-chief and has spent his career on psychosocial models of chronic pain.华盛顿大学的 Dennis C. Turk 是主编，长期研究慢性疼痛的心理社会模型。
• Turk has contributed to methodological guidance for pain trials and argues for patient-reported outcomes over surrogate endpoints.Turk 参与疼痛试验的方法学建议，主张以患者报告结局取代替代终点。
• Robert R. Edwards is an associate editor working on the psychophysiology of pain and individual differences in response.Robert R. Edwards 是副编辑，研究疼痛的心理生理机制与个体反应差异。
• Christine Sieberg, also an associate editor, works on paediatric pain and the neuroscience of pain perception.同为副编辑的 Christine Sieberg 研究儿童疼痛与疼痛感知的神经科学。
• Andrei Sdrulla and Anna Wilson complete the associate editor group, in pain medicine and paediatric psychology respectively.Andrei Sdrulla 与 Anna Wilson 补足副编辑团队，分别从事疼痛医学与儿科心理学。
• Charles E. Argoff, on the board, treats headache and neuropathic pain in New York and writes on topical and interventional options.编委 Charles E. Argoff 在纽约诊治头面痛与神经病理性疼痛，并写作局部用药与介入方案。
• Gordon J. G. Asmundson of the University of Regina studies the overlap of anxiety, fear and pain.里贾纳大学的 Gordon J. G. Asmundson 研究焦虑、恐惧与疼痛的重叠。
• Honorio T. Benzon works on regional anaesthesia and pain interventions in Chicago, and Timothy Brennan studies postoperative pain mechanisms in Iowa.Honorio T. Benzon 在芝加哥从事区域麻醉与疼痛介入，Timothy Brennan 在爱荷华研究术后疼痛机制。
• Herta Flor in Mannheim is known for work on cortical reorganisation and phantom limb pain.曼海姆的 Herta Flor 以大脑皮层重组与幻肢痛研究知名。
• Christopher Eccleston in Bath studies paediatric pain and digital interventions for young patients.巴斯的 Christopher Eccleston 研究儿童疼痛与面向年轻患者的数字干预。
• Board members come from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and Australia, spanning anaesthesia, psychology, nursing and rehabilitation.编委来自美国、加拿大、英国、德国、丹麦与澳大利亚，覆盖麻醉、心理、护理与康复。
• Editors ask authors to state the clinical consequence of a finding, not merely its statistical significance.编辑要求作者说明结果的临床意义，而不只看统计显著性。
• Special topic issues are proposed by board members and reviewed as a group before the call is issued.专刊由编委提议，在发布征稿之前作为整体送审。