''Molecular Pain'' is a
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering all aspects of research on
pain
Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging Stimulus (physiology), stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sense, sensory and emotional experience associated with, or res ...
. It was established in 2005 and is published by
BioMed Central
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. The
editors-in-chief
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are Jianguo Gu (
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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) and Min Zhuo (
University of Toronto
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), who was also the founding editor of the journal. It is sponsored by the
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
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.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2012
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 3.774.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.molecularpain.com/
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