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25th Anniversary

Celebrating 25 years of The Journal of Headache and Pain

This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Journal of Headache and Pain

After receiving its first Impact Factor in 2008, it has developed into one of the leading fully open-access journals in its field.

To kick off our celebrations, please enjoy this blog and video from the Editor-in-Chief, Paolo Martelletti, reflecting on the journal's inception and the contributions of scientists from around the world that have made the journal into what it is today.

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The Journal of Headache and Pain's top cited, accessed, and mentioned articles over the past 25 years

Our Top 25 Articles: Citations

Prevalence of headache in Europe: a review for the Eurolight project
Lars Jacob Stovner and Colette Andree
Year: 2010

The global burden of migraine: measuring disability in headache disorders with WHO's Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) 
M. Leonardi, T. J. Steiner, A. T. Scher and R. B. Lipton 
Year: 2005

Migraine and psychiatric comorbidity: a review of clinical findings 
Fabio Antonaci, Giuseppe Nappi, Federica Galli, Gian Camillo Manzoni, Paolo Calabresi and Alfredo Costa 
Year: 2011

The global prevalence of headache: an update, with analysis of the influences of methodological factors on prevalence estimates 
Lars Jacob Stovner, Knut Hagen, Mattias Linde and Timothy J. Steiner 
Year: 2022

European headache federation guideline on the use of monoclonal antibodies acting on the calcitonin gene related peptide or its receptor for migraine prevention 
Simona Sacco, Lars Bendtsen, Messoud Ashina, Uwe Reuter, Gisela Terwindt, Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas and Paolo Martelletti 
Year: 2019

The impact of headache in Europe: principal results of the Eurolight project 
Timothy J Steiner, Lars Jacob Stovner, Zaza Katsarava, Jose Miguel Lainez, Christian Lampl, Michel Lantéri-Minet, Daiva Rastenyte, Elena Ruiz de la Torre, Cristina Tassorelli, Jessica Barré and Colette Andrée 
Year: 2014

Cost of healthcare for patients with migraine in five European countries: results from the International Burden of Migraine Study (IBMS) 
L. M. Bloudek, M. Stokes, D. C. Buse, T. K. Wilcox, R. B. Lipton, P. J. Goadsby, S. F. Varon, A. M. Blumenfeld, Z. Katsarava, J. Pascual, M. Lanteri-Minet, P. Cortelli and P. Martelletti 
Year: 2012

Blocking CGRP in migraine patients – a review of pros and cons 
Marie Deen, Edvige Correnti, Katharina Kamm, Tim Kelderman, Laura Papetti, Eloisa Rubio-Beltrán, Simone Vigneri, Lars Edvinsson and Antoinette Maassen Van Den Brink 
Year: 2017

Depression and risk of transformation of episodic to chronic migraine 
Sait Ashina, Daniel Serrano, Richard B. Lipton, Morris Maizels, Aubrey N. Manack, Catherine C. Turkel, Michael L. Reed and Dawn C. Buse 
Year: 2012

Validation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and GAD-2 in patients with migraine
Jong-Geun Seo and Sung-Pa Park 
Year: 2015

Safety and efficacy of deep brain stimulation in refractory cluster headache: a randomized placebo-controlled double-blind trial followed by a 1-year open extension 
Denys Fontaine, Yves Lazorthes, Patrick Mertens, Serge Blond, Gilles Géraud, Nelly Fabre, Malou Navez, Christian Lucas, Francois Dubois, Sebastien Gonfrier, Philippe Paquis and Michel Lantéri-Minet 
Year: 2009

Aids to management of headache disorders in primary care (2nd edition) 
T. J. Steiner, R. Jensen, Z. Katsarava, M. Linde, E. A. MacGregor, V. Osipova, K. Paemeleire, J. Olesen, M. Peters and P. Martelletti 
Year: 2019

Gut-brain Axis and migraine headache: a comprehensive review
Mahsa Arzani, Soodeh Razeghi Jahromi, Zeinab Ghorbani, Fahimeh Vahabizad, Paolo Martelletti, Amir Ghaemi, Simona Sacco and Mansoureh Togha 
Year: 2020

Habituation and sensitization in primary headaches 
Gianluca Coppola, Cherubino Di Lorenzo, Jean Schoenen and Francesco Pierelli 
Year: 2013

Poor medical care for people with migraine in Europe – evidence from the Eurolight study 
Zaza Katsarava, Maka Mania, Christian Lampl, Johanna Herberhold and Timothy J. Steiner 
Year: 2018

Neuromodulation of chronic headaches: position statement from the European Headache Federation 
Paolo Martelletti, Rigmor H Jensen, Andrea Antal, Roberto Arcioni, Filippo Brighina, Marina de Tommaso, Angelo Franzini, Denys Fontaine, Max Heiland, Tim P Jürgens, Massimo Leone, Delphine Magis, Koen Paemeleire, Stefano Palmisani, Walter Paulus and Arne May 
Year: 2013

Reported concepts for the treatment modalities and pain management of temporomandibular disorders 
Mieszko Wieckiewicz, Klaus Boening, Piotr Wiland, Yuh-Yuan Shiau and Anna Paradowska-Stolarz 
Year: 2015

Migraine in women: the role of hormones and their impact on vascular diseases 
Simona Sacco, Silvia Ricci, Diana Degan and Antonio Carolei 
Year: 2012

Fluctuations in episodic and chronic migraine status over the course of 1 year: implications for diagnosis, treatment and clinical trial design 
Daniel Serrano, Richard B. Lipton, Ann I. Scher, Michael L. Reed, Walter (Buzz) F. Stewart, Aubrey Manack Adams and Dawn C. Buse
Year: 2017

Calcitonin gene-related peptide and pain: a systematic review 
Wendy Sophie Schou, Sait Ashina, Faisal Mohammad Amin, Peter J. Goadsby and Messoud Ashina 
Year: 2017

Comorbid and co-occurring conditions in migraine and associated risk of increasing headache pain intensity and headache frequency: results of the migraine in America symptoms and treatment (MAST) study 
Dawn C. Buse, Michael L. Reed, Kristina M. Fanning, Ryan Bostic, David W. Dodick, Todd J. Schwedt, Sagar Munjal, Preeti Singh and Richard B. Lipton 
Year: 2020

European Headache Federation guideline on the use of monoclonal antibodies targeting the calcitonin gene related peptide pathway for migraine prevention – 2022 update 
Simona Sacco, Faisal Mohammad Amin, Messoud Ashina, Lars Bendtsen, Christina I. Deligianni, Raquel Gil-Gouveia, Zaza Katsarava, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink, Paolo Martelletti, Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas, Raffaele Ornello, Uwe Reuter, Margarita Sanchez-del-Rio, Alexandra J. Sinclair, Gisela Terwindt, Derya Uluduz…
Year: 2022

Headache and pregnancy: a systematic review 
A. Negro, Z. Delaruelle, T. A. Ivanova, S. Khan, R. Ornello, B. Raffaelli, A. Terrin, U. Reuter and D. D. Mitsikostas 
Year: 2017

Treatment of chronic migraine with transcutaneous stimulation of the auricular branch of the vagal nerve (auricular t-VNS): a randomized, monocentric clinical trial 
Andreas Straube, J. Ellrich, O. Eren, B. Blum and R. Ruscheweyh 
Year: 2015

Anxiety and depression symptoms and migraine: a symptom-based approach research 
Mario Fernando Prieto Peres, Juliane P. P. Mercante, Patricia R. Tobo, Helder Kamei and Marcelo Eduardo Bigal 
Year: 2017

 Publication years: 2000-2024
Source: CrossRef, data collected: April 2024

Our Top 25 Articles: Downloads

Headache in transient ischemic attacks
Elena R. Lebedeva, Natalia M. Gurary and Jes Olesen
Year: 2018

Long COVID headache
Claudio Tana, Enrico Bentivegna, Soo-Jin Cho, Andrea M. Harriott, David García-Azorín, Alejandro Labastida-Ramirez, Raffaele Ornello, Bianca Raffaelli, Eloísa Rubio Beltrán, Ruth Ruscheweyh and Paolo Martelletti
Year: 2022

Delayed headache after COVID-19 vaccination: a red flag for vaccine induced cerebral venous thrombosis
David García-Azorín, Thien Phu Do, Andreas R. Gantenbein, Jakob Møller Hansen, Marcio Nattan P. Souza, Mark Obermann, Heiko Pohl, Christoph J. Schankin, Henrik Winther Schytz, Alexandra Sinclair, Guus G. Schoonman and Espen Saxhaug Kristoffersen
Year: 2021

Headache characteristics in COVID-19 pandemic-a survey study
Özge Uygun, Mustafa Ertaş, Esme Ekizoğlu, Hayrunnisa Bolay, Aynur Özge, Elif Kocasoy Orhan, Arif Atahan Çağatay and Betül Baykan
Year: 2020

Headache medication and the COVID-19 pandemic
Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink, Tessa de Vries and A. H. Jan Danser
Year: 2020

Blocking CGRP in migraine patients – a review of pros and cons
Marie Deen, Edvige Correnti, Katharina Kamm, Tim Kelderman, Laura Papetti, Eloisa Rubio-Beltrán, Simone Vigneri, Lars Edvinsson and Antoinette Maassen Van Den Brink
Year: 2017

Headache associated with cough: a review 
Ann Cordenier, Willem De Hertogh, Jacques De Keyser and Jan Versijpt
Year: 2013

The association between headache and low back pain: a systematic review 
Arani Vivekanantham, Claire Edwin, Tamar Pincus, Manjit Matharu, Helen Parsons and Martin Underwood
Year: 2019

Emerging evidence of occipital nerve compression in unremitting head and neck pain 
Pamela Blake and Rami Burstein
Year: 2019

New daily persistent headache: a systematic review on an enigmatic disorder 
Nooshin Yamani and Jes Olesen 
Year: 2019

The red ear syndrome 
Giorgio Lambru, Sarah Miller and Manjit S Matharu
Year: 2013

Gut-brain Axis and migraine headache: a comprehensive review 
Mahsa Arzani, Soodeh Razeghi Jahromi, Zeinab Ghorbani, Fahimeh Vahabizad, Paolo Martelletti, Amir Ghaemi, Simona Sacco and Mansoureh Togha
Year: 2020

Sentinel headache as a warning symptom of ischemic stroke 
Elena R. Lebedeva, Anton V. Ushenin, Natalia M. Gurary, Denis V. Gilev and Jes Olesen 
Year: 2020

The fifth cranial nerve in headaches
J. C. A. Edvinsson, A. Viganò, A. Alekseeva, E. Alieva, R. Arruda, C. De Luca, N. D’Ettore, I. Frattale, M. Kurnukhina, N. Macerola, E. Malenkova, M. Maiorova, A. Novikova, P. Řehulka, V. Rapaccini, O. Roshchina… 
Year: 2020

Headache attributed to airplane travel: diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment – a systematic review 
Sebastian Bao Dinh Bui and Parisa Gazerani 
Year: 2017

Histamine and migraine revisited: mechanisms and possible drug targets
Jacob Worm, Katrine Falkenberg and Jes Olesen
Year: 2019

Migraineurs with exercise-triggered attacks have a distinct migraine 
Hille Koppen and Peter LJ van Veldhoven
Year: 2013

Patterns of medicinal cannabis use, strain analysis, and substitution effect among patients with migraine, headache, arthritis, and chronic pain in a medicinal cannabis cohort
Eric P. Baron, Philippe Lucas, Joshua Eades and Olivia Hogue 
Year: 2018

Myofascial trigger points in migraine and tension-type headache
Thien Phu Do, Gerda Ferja Heldarskard, Lærke Tørring Kolding, Jeppe Hvedstrup and Henrik Winther Schytz 
Year: 2018

The global prevalence of headache: an update, with analysis of the influences of methodological factors on prevalence estimates
Lars Jacob Stovner, Knut Hagen, Mattias Linde and Timothy J. Steiner 
Year: 2022

Cognitive dysfunction and migraine 
Doga Vuralli, Cenk Ayata and Hayrunnisa Bolay 
Year: 2018

Current and emerging evidence-based treatment options in chronic migraine: a narrative review
Elio Clemente Agostoni, Piero Barbanti, Paolo Calabresi, Bruno Colombo, Pietro Cortelli, Fabio Frediani, Pietrangelo Geppetti, Licia Grazzi, Massimo Leone, Paolo Martelletti, Luigi Alberto Pini, Maria Pia Prudenzano, Paola Sarchielli, Gioacchino Tedeschi and Antonio Russo
Year: 2019

Mechanisms of migraine as a chronic evolutive condition
Anna P. Andreou and Lars Edvinsson
Year: 2019

Trigeminal neuralgia secondary to multiple sclerosis: from the clinical picture to the treatment options
Giulia Di Stefano, Stine Maarbjerg and Andrea Truini
Year: 2019

Persistent post-traumatic headache: a migrainous loop or not? The clinical evidence
Alejandro Labastida-Ramírez, Silvia Benemei, Maria Albanese, Antonina D’Amico, Giovanni Grillo, Oxana Grosu, Devrimsel Harika Ertem, Jasper Mecklenburg, Elena Petrovna Fedorova, Pavel Řehulka, Francesca Schiano di Cola, Javier Trigo Lopez, Nina Vashchenko, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink and Paolo Martelletti
Year: 2020

Publication years: 2000-2024
Data collected: April 2024

Our Top 25 Articles: Altmetric mentions

The global prevalence of headache: an update, with analysis of the influences of methodological factors on prevalence estimates
Lars Jacob Stovner, Knut Hagen, Mattias Linde and Timothy J. Steiner
Year: 2022

Migraine remains second among the world’s causes of disability, and first among young women: findings from GBD2019
T. J. Steiner, L. J. Stovner, R. Jensen, D. Uluduz and Z. Katsarava
Year: 2020

Migraine: the seventh disabler
Timothy J Steiner, Lars J Stovner and Gretchen L Birbeck
Year: 2013 

Delayed headache after COVID-19 vaccination: a red flag for vaccine induced cerebral venous thrombosis
David García-Azorín, Thien Phu Do, Andreas R. Gantenbein, Jakob Møller Hansen, Marcio Nattan P. Souza, Mark Obermann, Heiko Pohl, Christoph J. Schankin, Henrik Winther Schytz, Alexandra Sinclair, Guus G. Schoonman and Espen Saxhaug Kristoffersen
Year: 2021  

Migraine is first cause of disability in under 50s: will health politicians now take notice?
Timothy J. Steiner, Lars J. Stovner, Theo Vos, R. Jensen and Z. Katsarava
Year: 2018 

Remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) in the acute treatment of migraine: a comparison with usual care and acute migraine medications
Alan M. Rapoport, Jo H. Bonner, Tamar Lin, Dagan Harris, Yaron Gruper, Alon Ironi and Robert P. Cowan
Year: 2019 

Migraine in women: the role of hormones and their impact on vascular diseases
Simona Sacco, Silvia Ricci, Diana Degan and Antonio Carolei
Year: 2012

Blocking CGRP in migraine patients – a review of pros and cons
Marie Deen, Edvige Correnti, Katharina Kamm, Tim Kelderman, Laura Papetti, Eloisa Rubio-Beltrán, Simone Vigneri, Lars Edvinsson and Antoinette Maassen Van Den Brink
Year: 2017 

Fluctuations in episodic and chronic migraine status over the course of 1 year: implications for diagnosis, treatment and clinical trial design
Daniel Serrano, Richard B. Lipton, Ann I. Scher, Michael L. Reed, Walter (Buzz) F. Stewart, Aubrey Manack Adams and Dawn C. Buse
Year: 2017 

Acute prolonged motor aura resembling ischemic stroke after COVID − 19 vaccination (CoronaVac): the first case report
Wanakorn Rattanawong, Wasan Akaratanawat, Supatporn Tepmongkol, Aurauma Chutinet, Jarturon Tantivatana and Nijasri Charnnarong Suwanwela
Year: 2021 

Comorbidities of primary headache disorders: a literature review with meta-analysis
Valeria Caponnetto, Manuela Deodato, Micaela Robotti, Maria Koutsokera, Valeria Pozzilli, Cristina Galati, Giovanna Nocera, Eleonora De Matteis, Gioacchino De Vanna, Emanuela Fellini, Gleni Halili, Daniele Martinelli, Gabriele Nalli, Serena Serratore, Irene Tramacere, Paolo Martelletti...
Year: 2021 

Sphenopalatine ganglion stimulation for cluster headache, results from a large, open-label European registry
Mads Barloese, Anja Petersen, Philipp Stude, Tim Jürgens, Rigmor Højland Jensen and Arne May
Year: 2018 

The effect and safety of monoclonal antibodies to calcitonin gene-related peptide and its receptor on migraine: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Min Hou, Haiyan Xing, Yongqing Cai, Bin Li, Xianfeng Wang, Pan Li, Xiaolin Hu and Jianhong Chen
Year: 2017 

Caffeine in the management of patients with headache
Richard B. Lipton, Hans-Christoph Diener, Matthew S. Robbins, Sandy Yacoub Garas and Ketu Patel
Year: 2017 

Variability in recurrence rates with acute treatments for migraine: why recurrence is not an appropriate outcome measure
Stewart J. Tepper, Jessica Ailani, Sutapa Ray, Joe Hirman, Stephen B. Shrewsbury and Sheena K. Aurora
Year: 2022 

Disability, quality of life, productivity impairment and employer costs of migraine in the workplace
Toshihiko Shimizu, Fumihiko Sakai, Hitoshi Miyake, Tomofumi Sone, Mitsuhiro Sato, Satoshi Tanabe, Yasuhiro Azuma and David W. Dodick
Year: 2021 

Increased risk of all-cause, Alzheimer’s, and vascular dementia in adults with migraine in Korea: a population-based cohort study
Kyungduk Hurh, Sung Hoon Jeong, Seung Hoon Kim, Suk-Yong Jang, Eun-Cheol Park and Sung-In Jang
Year: 2022 

The bidirectional temporal relationship between headache and affective disorders: longitudinal data from the HUNT studies
Samita Giri, Erling Andreas Tronvik and Knut Hagen
Year: 2022 

Demoralization predicts suicidality in patients with cluster headache
Brian B. Koo, Ahmed Bayoumi, Abdalla Albanna, Mohammed Abusuliman, Laura Burrone, Jason J. Sico and Emmanuelle A. D. Schindler
Year: 2021 

Alcohol and migraine: trigger factor, consumption, mechanisms. A review
Alessandro Panconesi
Year: 2008 

Patterns of medicinal cannabis use, strain analysis, and substitution effect among patients with migraine, headache, arthritis, and chronic pain in a medicinal cannabis cohort
Eric P. Baron, Philippe Lucas, Joshua Eades and Olivia Hogue
Year: 2018 

Headache attributed to airplane travel: diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment – a systematic review
Sebastian Bao Dinh Bui and Parisa Gazerani
Year: 2017 

Development and validation of a novel model for characterizing migraine outcomes within real-world data
Nada A. Hindiyeh, Daniel Riskin, Kimberly Alexander, Roger Cady and Steven Kymes
Year: 2022  

Association between migraine and cognitive impairment
Lihua Gu, Yanjuan Wang and Hao Shu
Year: 2022 

Caffeine discontinuation improves acute migraine treatment: a prospective clinic-based study
Mi Ji Lee, Hyun Ah Choi, Hanna Choi and Chin-Sang Chung
Year: 2016 

Publication years: 2000-2024
Source: Altmetric, data collected: April 2024