Pain Practice

Pain Practice is the official journal of the World Institute of Pain, published by Wiley, founded in 2001 and carrying international multidisciplinary articles on pain and analgesia, with a 2025 impact factor of 2.7（Pain Practice）是世界疼痛学会（WIP）的官方期刊，由 Wiley 出版，2001 年创刊，刊载疼痛与镇痛领域的国际多学科文章，2025 年影响因子为 2.7。

Scope

• It publishes international multidisciplinary articles on pain and analgesia that give readers up-to-date research, evaluation methods and techniques for pain management刊载疼痛与镇痛领域的国际多学科文章，向读者提供疼痛管理的最新研究、评估方法与技术。
• Its special sections are the Consultant's Corner, Images in Pain Practice, Case Studies from Mayo, Tutorials and Evidence-Based Medicine其特色栏目包括顾问专栏、疼痛影像、梅奥病例研究、教程与循证医学五组。
• These sections combine to give pain researchers, pain clinicians and pain fellows in training a systematic approach to continuing education in pain medicine各栏目共同为疼痛研究者、疼痛临床医师与疼痛专科培训医师提供疼痛医学继续教育的系统路径。
• It carries research articles, reviews, case reports, educational images, letters to the editor and editorials刊载原创研究、综述、病例报告、教育图像、致编辑信与社论等文章类型。
• Its subject coverage spans anesthesiology, clinical neurology, rehabilitation, psychology, imaging and oncology and palliative care学科覆盖麻醉学、临床神经病学、康复、心理学、影像学以及肿瘤与姑息治疗。
• Its listed keywords cover pain, evidence-based pain management, neurology and anesthesiology其主题关键词涵盖疼痛、循证疼痛管理、神经病学与麻醉学。

History

• It was founded in 2001 by the World Institute of Pain as its official journal, that institute having been established in 1993 to advance interventional pain practice worldwide该刊 2001 年由世界疼痛学会创办，为其官方会刊，该学会成立于 1993 年，宗旨是在全球推进介入疼痛医学。
• Its founding issue carried the inaugural address Greetings and Welcome by the first editor-in-chief P. Prithvi Raj其创刊号刊有首任主编 P. Prithvi Raj 的创刊致辞（Greetings and Welcome）。^[1]
• Its first editor-in-chief was P. Prithvi Raj, who served from 2001 to 2005其首任主编为 P. Prithvi Raj，任期为 2001 年至 2005 年。
• The editorship then passed to Craig T. Hartrick, E. A. Bert Joosten and Chris Gilligan此后主编依次为 Craig T. Hartrick、E. A. Bert Joosten 与 Chris Gilligan。^[2]
• It has never changed its name, and while it was first published by Blackwell Science in Malden, Massachusetts, that firm merged into Wiley in 2007 and the journal is now published by Wiley该刊从未更名，创刊时由布莱克韦尔科学出版社在麻萨诸塞州马尔登出版，该社 2007 年并入 Wiley，现由 Wiley 出版。
• It appears eight times a year, and its 2025 metrics are an impact factor of 2.7, a CiteScore of 5.2, a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.75 and an acceptance rate of 16 percent该刊每年出版八期，2025 年指标为影响因子 2.7、CiteScore 5.2、期刊引文指标 0.75 与接受率 16%。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Chris Gilligan, MD, MBA, who works in pain medicine and interventional pain in the United States现任主编 Chris Gilligan（MD、MBA），在美国从事疼痛医学与介入疼痛工作。
• The deputy editor on the editorial advisory board is Kiran V. Patel, MD编辑顾问委员会的副编辑为 Kiran V. Patel（MD）。
• The interventional techniques section is led by Usman Latif, the clinical science section by Chi Wai Cheung, the imaging section by Chih-Peng Lin, the oncology and palliative care section by Kris Vissers, the rehabilitation and psychology section by Rob Edwards and the new interventional techniques section by Ganesan Baranidharan介入技术与疼痛管理栏目由 Usman Latif 主持，临床科学与疼痛管理栏目由 Chi Wai Cheung 主持，影像技术与疼痛管理栏目由 Chih-Peng Lin 主持，肿瘤与姑息治疗栏目由 Kris Vissers 主持，康复与心理学栏目由 Rob Edwards 主持，新介入技术栏目由 Ganesan Baranidharan 主持。
• The board is highly international, drawing members from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, Belgium, China, Australia, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Greece, Turkey, Germany and Switzerland编委高度国际化，成员来自美国、英国、加拿大、中国香港、比利时、中国、澳大利亚、韩国、新加坡、瑞典、中国台湾、荷兰、巴西、墨西哥、希腊、土耳其、德国与瑞士。
• Each section has five to twelve members, giving a total of about fifty editorial positions每栏目有 5 至 12 人，合计约五十人次。
• Before publication all articles and reviews undergo peer review by at least two experts in the field发表前所有文章与综述均经至少两位领域专家同行评审。