Russian Journal of Pain

Language of publication:

• metadata – in Russian and English,
• articles – in Russian,
• selected articles in electronic form – in English.

Subscription distribution model: open access.

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Materials of the journal are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0): it is allowed to use, copy, quote for noncommercial purposes with the obligatory indication of the name of the author of the work and the source of borrowing. Full text of the license.

The journal was founded in 2010. Previously published under the title "Pain" from 2003 to 2009.

Since 2020, the journal has been published by Media Sphere Publishing House.

It publishes articles of authors-applicants of a scientific degree of candidate of medical Sciences. The journal is dedicated to the problem of pain, and covers many research areas related to the physiology and pathophysiology of pain, methods of assessment and diagnosis of pain, features of clinic nociceptive, neuropathic and psychogenic pain syndromes and methods of treatment.

The articles reflected the most current ideas on the pathogenesis of pain syndromes, the clinical picture, modern methods of drug and non-drug therapy, prevention and rehabilitation of patients with various forms of chronic pain. Regularly published scientific literature reviews and lectures on the problem of pain. All articles are accompanied by a bibliography with full citation of the source.

The journal is included in the list of the leading peer-reviewed journals and editions of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, in which scientific results of dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Science and Doctor of Science should be published. Included in the RISC database.

The main sections of the journal:

• Lectures
• Original Articles
• Clinical Case Descriptions
• Overviews
• Review of Foreign Publications
• Algological Care
• Peer-Reviews

No fee is charged for the publication of articles.

Each article received by the editorial board is registered and considered after peer-reviewing at the meeting of the editorial board, which decides on its publication.

Head of the Editorial – Lyudmila Nikolayevna Afanasyeva

A4
Frequency – 4 times a year

About journal:

1. Russian Index of Science Citation 

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