British Journal of Pain
Last updated ISSN 2049-4637
British Journal of Pain is published by SAGE Publishing in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,150.
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What it publishes
Recent work in British Journal of Pain concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Pain Management and Treatment
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2049-4637, 2049-4645 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,150 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 627 |
| Publishing since | 1986 |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/british-journal-pai |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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