The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management is an internationally respected, peer-reviewed journal and
serves an interdisciplinary audience of professionals by providing a forum for the publication of the latest clinical research and best
practices related to the relief of illness burden among patients afflicted with serious or life-threatening illness. The Journal has
strongly supported both quantitative and qualitative research underpinning the evolving discipline of palliative care, including clinical
trials of pain or symptom control therapies, epidemiology of phenomena related to life-threatening disease and end-of-life care, instrument
development to enhance clinical assessment and facilitate investigation, and health services studies evaluating the outcomes of diverse
therapeutic models. It also offers extensive coverage of clinical practice issues, publishing both systematic and narrative reviews,
case series and case reports, and both special articles and columns that present important updates on topics as varied as the international
diversity of palliative medicine, the economics of palliative care, and bioethics in end-of-life care.
The Journal of Pain
and Symptom Management's 2007 Impact Factor is 2.324. It is ranked: 59th out of 146 Clinical Neurology titles, 13th
out of 57 Health Care Sciences & Services titles, and 26th out of 105 Medicine, General & Internal titles in the 2007
Journal Citation Reports®, published by Thomson Reuters.
