Scholarly Index

Pain Management and Opioid Use

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Pain Management and Opioid Use.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Christopher M. Jones	99.76	24,840	197
2	Giustino Varrassi	99.56	13,090	644
3	Alan D. Kaye	99.52	32,274	1,197
4	Nora D. Volkow	99.49	127,825	1,036
5	Chad M. Brummett	99.40	23,721	336
6	Tara Gomes	99.05	13,461	438
7	Éduardo Bruera	98.88	74,943	1,620
8	Joseph V. Pergolizzi	98.86	10,743	417
9	Gery P. Guy	98.82	12,138	211
10	Girish P. Joshi	98.71	16,139	444
11	Marco Cascella	98.71	10,294	332
12	Esther Pogatzki‐Zahn	98.65	9,837	272
13	Jessica S. Merlin	98.48	3,044	205
14	Jennifer F. Waljee	98.27	10,380	274
15	Amy S. B. Bohnert	98.23	9,627	159
16	Mark C. Bicket	98.11	4,560	163
17	Bradley D. Stein	98.00	13,987	441
18	Kristin L. Schreiber	97.98	3,647	153
19	Sebastiano Mercadante	97.97	22,144	511
20	Ashraf S. Habib	97.91	14,803	301
21	Ivan Urits	97.86	10,175	398
22	Suzanne Nielsen	97.77	7,858	330
23	Phillip O. Coffin	97.77	5,939	197
24	Lars Arendt‐Nielsen	97.57	73,859	2,418
25	Yong‐Fang Kuo	97.57	19,157	677
26	Beth D. Darnall	97.47	6,349	206
27	Ian Gilron	97.40	17,969	267
28	Hailey W. Bulls	97.37	2,211	100
29	Honora Englander	97.32	4,457	97
30	Kao‐Ping Chua	97.31	2,460	115
31	Burhan Dost	97.25	1,212	130
32	Ho‐Jin Lee	97.20	3,234	210
33	Robert R. Edwards	97.06	31,037	534
34	Roger B. Fillingim	96.98	45,851	786
35	Michelle R. Lofwall	96.76	5,049	183
36	Richard D. Urman	96.71	19,236	602
37	Katie Fitzgerald Jones	96.70	490	66
38	Ashish P. Thakrar	96.58	622	41
39	Corey S. Davis	96.53	4,880	161
40	Mellar P. Davis	96.52	16,541	415
41	Adam J. Gordon	96.50	10,525	391
42	Rodney A. Gabriel	96.49	5,647	285
43	Grant Baldwin	96.45	12,091	105
44	Patricia Lavand’homme	96.40	15,863	227
45	Melissa B. Weimer	96.32	3,435	88
46	Sunil Shrestha	96.28	23,634	234
47	Almut G. Winterstein	96.23	8,942	322
48	Winfried Häuser	96.19	31,653	658
49	Mark Olfson	96.18	67,257	794
50	Farnad Imani	95.85	3,649	217