Current Pain and Headache Reports

Current Pain and Headache Reports (abbreviated as ''Curr. Pain Headache Rep.') is a peer-reviewed review journal in pain and headache published by Springer. Founded in 1994 as Current Review of Pain, it took its present title in 2001 and had a 2025 impact factor of 4.8.Current Pain and Headache Reports（常用缩写 Curr. Pain Headache Rep.）是施普林格（Springer）出版的疼痛与头痛领域同行评审综述期刊，创刊于 1994 年，当时刊名为 Current Review of Pain，2001 年改为现名，2025 年影响因子为 4.8。^[1]

Scope

The journal aims to review the most important, recently published clinical findings on the diagnosis, treatment and management of pain and headache, providing clear, insightful and balanced contributions from international experts in order to serve everyone involved in the care and prevention of pain and headache.该刊以评述近期发表的临床研究成果中最重要的部分为目标，围绕疼痛与头痛的诊断、治疗与管理提供国际专家撰写的清晰、中肯、平衡的综述，以服务于参与疼痛与头痛诊疗和预防的各类读者。

Pain management techniques: anaesthetic techniques in pain management, emerging therapies in interventional pain medicine, neuromodulation and perioperative pain.疼痛管理技术：涵盖疼痛管理中的麻醉技术、介入性疼痛医学的新兴疗法、神经调控以及围手术期疼痛等主题。
Primary and secondary headache: migraine, cluster headache and chronic daily headache, together with secondary headache and unusual headache syndromes.原发性与继发性头痛：覆盖偏头痛、丛集性头痛与慢性每日头痛等原发性头痛，以及继发性头痛与罕见头痛综合征。
Neuropathic pain: mechanisms, diagnostic approaches and treatment choices, along with the long-term management of chronic pain states such as complex regional pain syndrome.神经病理性疼痛：关注神经病理性疼痛的机制识别与治疗选择，以及复杂区域疼痛综合征等慢性疼痛的长期管理。
Non-pharmacologic and cross-cutting topics: behavioural and psychological interventions, lifestyle modification and integrative treatments, as well as paediatric and adolescent headache, concussion and head injury.非药物与交叉主题：还包括行为与心理干预、生活方式调节、整合医学等非药物手段，以及儿童青少年头痛、脑震荡与头外伤等交叉主题。

The journal appears under a hybrid open-access model and is published bimonthly, with articles also available online ahead of print. Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's online submission system, and international authorities serve as Section Editors in each key subject area.出版模型为混合开放获取，期刊按双月刊出版但文章同时在线优先上线；稿件在出版方的在线投稿系统中提交，各专科方向由国际同行担任栏目编辑组稿。^[2]

History

1994: the journal was founded in the United States as Current Review of Pain, built around authoritative reviews in the field of pain.1994年：期刊在美国创刊，初名 Current Review of Pain，以疼痛领域的权威综述为主要内容。
2001: the remit widened from pain alone to pain and headache together, and the title became Current Pain and Headache Reports, with volume numbering continuing from the earlier series.2001年：刊物重心由单纯疼痛扩展到疼痛与头痛的并列范围，刊名相应改为 Current Pain and Headache Reports，卷号延续原有序列。
The 2010s: after consolidation of the publishing business the journal entered the Springer medical journal portfolio, maintained its six issues a year and expanded its section structure.2010年代：出版方经历业务整合，期刊进入 Springer 医学期刊序列并保持每年六期的双刊节奏，同时扩充栏目设置。
The 2020s: the section structure was refined further, with topical collections on new and emerging therapies in interventional pain medicine, non-pharmacologic aspects of pain and headache, and concussion and head injury. The impact factor rose from 3.2 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2025, and the median time to first decision is 15 days.2020年代：栏目进一步细化，增设介入性疼痛医学新疗法、非药物手段、脑震荡与头外伤等专题专辑，2025 年影响因子由 2023 年的 3.2 升至 4.8，投稿至首次决定的中位时长为 15 天。

Editors

The journal is co-led by three Editors-in-Chief and supported by nineteen board members and more than a dozen Section Editors. Peer review is carried out at section level, with final acceptance decided by the Editors-in-Chief.该刊由三位主编共同主持，另设十九位编委与十余名栏目编辑，稿件评审在栏目编辑层面完成，最终录用由主编决定。

Editors-in-Chief: Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, directs the Jefferson Headache Center at Thomas Jefferson University. Lawrence C. Newman, MD, is based at NYU Langone Health, and Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD, is at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.主编：主编为医学博士 Stephen D. Silberstein，任托马斯·杰斐逊大学头痛中心主任；医学博士 Lawrence C. Newman，任纽约大学朗格恩医学中心任职；医学博士与哲学博士 Alan D. Kaye，任路易斯安那州立大学什里夫波特分校任职。
Board composition: board members come from Italy, Israel, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore and the United States, covering expertise in pain research, the mechanisms of neuropathic pain and orofacial pain among other areas.编委构成：编委来自意大利、以色列、日本、法国、英国、加拿大、新加坡与美国等地，涵盖疼痛研究、神经病理性疼痛机制与口面痛等专长领域。
Section editors: sections cover anaesthetic techniques in pain management, secondary headache, chronic daily headache, non-pharmacologic aspects of pain and migraine, neuropathic pain, episodic migraine, hot topics in pain and headache, acute pain management, chronic pain management, uncommon headache syndromes, alternative treatments for pain medicine, emerging interventional pain therapies, concussion and head injury, and paediatric and adolescent headache.栏目分工：栏目编辑分别负责麻醉技术在疼痛管理中的应用、继发性头痛、慢性每日头痛、疼痛与偏头痛及头痛的非药物干预、神经病理性疼痛、发作性偏头痛、疼痛与头痛热点、急性疼痛管理、慢性疼痛管理、少见与不典型头痛综合征、疼痛医学替代疗法、介入性疼痛医学的新兴疗法、脑震荡与头损伤以及儿童青少年头痛等方向。
Topical collections: standing collections such as chronic daily headache are run with several co-editors, and authors submit manuscripts through the publisher's online submission system.专题专辑：常年开设慢性每日头痛等主题专辑并配有多位共同专辑编辑，作者经出版方的在线投稿系统提交稿件。^[3]

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