The Journal of Headache and Pain is pleased to present our 2025 Early Career Research Mentorship Program, open to PhD/PostDocs or Residents.
This program is associated with a total award of 31,900 EUR/39,900 USD/28,900 GBP ( +VAT) in the form of 10 waivers of the journal's Article Processing Charge, divided between 10 early career researchers. Applicants will also be considered for a position on The Journal of Headache and Pain Junior Editorial Board.
Applications can be made by the submission of an Original Research or Review article (with the Early Career Researcher as the corresponding author), within the scope of The Journal of Headache and Pain.
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Read MoreThe Journal of Headache and Pain announces a trilogy of review articles on the Hallmarks of Primary Headaches
Read the review: Part 1 - Migraine
And the blog: The hallmarks of migraine: a paper and a wager, for the story behind "Hallmarks of primary headache: part 1 – migraine".
Edited by: Alberto Raggi and Sheila Crewther
This collection aims to gather the most innovative research on the biopsychosocial perspective in headache and pain.
Edited by: Paolo Martelletti
This collection highlights the 2025 Early Career Research Mentorship Program.
Edited by: Tissa Wijeratne, Sophie Merve Yener and Lakshman Singh
This collection highlights migraine and brain health in the Asia-Oceania region, exploring its impact across the lifespan. We welcome research on new treatments, cultural factors, and digital health solutions. Contribute to advancing migraine care and brain health in this unique region.
Edited by: Gianluca Coppola and Igor Petrušić
This collection explores the use of machine learning in migraine research, focusing on advanced algorithms and computational techniques to analyze clinical and neuroimaging data, aiming to uncover patterns and relationships with digital twin solutions.
Edited by: Marco Antônio Arruda and Timothy J. Steiner
This series will embrace estimates from worldwide of headache-attributed burden, studies characterising the headache disorders of childhood and their evolution throughout adolescence (especially longitudinal cohort studies), those providing insights into the diagnostic uncertainties of child and adolescent headache, and those proposing or evaluating systems of care for child and adolescent headache.
Click here to see the article collections and thematic series that the journal has published in recent years.
Collaborative evidence-based approaches to public policy and healthcare policy and practice are essential, not only in addressing inequalities but also in building trusted sustainable ways forward in which to ensure good health and wellbeing for all. The Journal of Headache and Pain supports submissions that address the SDG3 targets and indicators.
Read MoreThe Journal of Headache and Pain is a peer-reviewed open access journal specifically dedicated to researchers involved in all aspects of headache and related pain syndromes, including epidemiology, public health, basic science, translational medicine, clinical trials and real-world data. With a multidisciplinary perspective, The Journal of Headache and Pain covers headache medicine and related pain syndromes in all medical disciplines and particularly encourages clinical, translational and basic science submissions in the areas of pain management, genetics, neurology and internal medicine. Read more.
Review article | 12 April 2022
The global prevalence of headache: an update, with analysis of the influences of methodological factors on prevalence estimates December 2020
Lars Jacob Stovner, Knut Hagen, Mattias Linde & Timothy J. Steiner
Consensus article | 11 June 2022
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, Jan Versijpt & Christian Lampl
Review article | 1 August 2022
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 & Paolo Martelletti
Research article | 3 January 2022
IL-17 crosses the blood-brain barrier to trigger neuroinflammation: a novel mechanism in nitroglycerin-induced chronic migraine
Hao Chen, Xueqian Tang, Jin Li, Bangyan Hu, Wenqin Yang, Meng Zhan, Tengyun Ma & Shijun Xu
Review article | 11 August 2022
Applying a biopsychosocial model to migraine: rationale and clinical implications
Chiara Rosignoli, Raffaele Ornello, Agnese Onofri, Valeria Caponnetto, Licia Grazzi, Alberto Raggi, Matilde Leonardi & Simona Sacco
Review article | 4 February 2023
Primary headache epidemiology in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Agnese Onofri, Umberto Pensato, Chiara Rosignoli, William Wells-Gatnik, Emily Stanyer, Raffaele Ornello, Hui Zhou Chen, Federico De Santis, Angelo Torrente, Petr Mikulenka, Gabriele Monte, Karol Marschollek, Marta Waliszewska-Prosół, Wietse Wiels, Deirdre M. Boucherie, Dilara Onan, Fatemeh Farham, Linda Al-Hassany, Simona Sacco on behalf of the European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies (EHF-SAS)
Research article | 9 April 2022
Fremanezumab in the prevention of high-frequency episodic and chronic migraine: a 12-week, multicenter, real-life, cohort study (the FRIEND study)
Piero Barbanti, Gabriella Egeo, Cinzia Aurilia, Florindo d’Onofrio, Maria Albanese, Ilaria Cetta, Paola Di Fiore, Maurizio Zucco, Massimo Filippi, Francesco Bono, Claudia Altamura, Stefania Proietti, Stefano Bonassi & Fabrizio Vernieri for the FRIEND-Study Group
Research article | 1 November 2022
Predictors of response to anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies: a 24-week, multicenter, prospective study on 864 migraine patients
Piero Barbanti, Gabriella Egeo, Cinzia Aurilia, Claudia Altamura, Florindo d’Onofrio, Cinzia Finocchi, Maria Albanese, Marco Aguggia, Renata Rao, Maurizio Zucco, Fabio Frediani, Massimo Filippi, Roberta Messina, Sabina Cevoli, Antonio Carnevale, Giulia Fiorentini, Stefano Messina, Francesco Bono, Paola Torelli, Stefania Proietti, Stefano Bonassi & Fabrizio Vernieri for the Italian Migraine Registry study group
Review article | 20 February 2023
Genetics of migraine: where are we now?
Lou Grangeon, Kristin Sophie Lange, Marta Waliszewska-Prosół, Dilara Onan, Karol Marschollek, Wietse Wiels, Petr Mikulenka, Fatemeh Farham, Cédric Gollion & Anne Ducros on behalf of the European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies (EHF-SAS)
Review article | 31 March 2022
Headache onset after vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Matteo Castaldo, Marta Waliszewska-Prosół, Maria Koutsokera, Micaela Robotti, Marcin Straburzyński, Loukia Apostolakopoulou, Mariarita Capizzi, Oneda Çibuku, Fidel Dominique Festin Ambat, Ilaria Frattale, Zukhra Gadzhieva, Erica Gallo, Anna Gryglas-Dworak, Gleni Halili, Asel Jusupova, Yana Koperskaya, Alo-Rainer Leheste, Maria Laura Manzo, Andrea Marcinnò, Antonio Marino, Petr Mikulenka, Bee Eng Ong, Burcu Polat, Zvonimir Popovic, Eduardo Rivera-Mancilla, Adina Maria Roceanu, Eleonora Rollo, Marina Romozzi, Claudia Ruscitto, Fabrizio Scotto di Clemente, Sebastian Strauss, Valentina Taranta, Maria Terhart, Iryna Tychenko, Simone Vigneri, Blazej Misiak, Paolo Martelletti & Alberto Raggi on behalf of the European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies (EHF-SAS)
Publication years: 2022-2023
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Read MoreThe European HeadacheFederation School of Advanced Studies (EHF-SAS) aims to support headache science and offers young EU scientists high quality educational activities to enhance their critical spirit and skills to face headache medicine from a multidisciplinary perspective.
The EHF-SAS covers the richness and diversity of headache medicine fields, including basic science, clinical science, and diagnostic science, and places an emphasis on collaborative projects. The European Headache Federation will support its fellows’ activities allowing them to independently build their own plan sided by the EHF-SAS Scientific Committee.
The Journal of Headache and Pain is the official journal of the European Headache Federation, Lifting The Burden, and the Asian Regional Consortium for Headache.
Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 7.3
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 7.7
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.830
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.791
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