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Beverly E. Thorn

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
9749
World Ranking
6884
National Ranking
3734

Neuroscience

D-Index
44
Citations
9809
World Ranking
7087
National Ranking
3067

Beverly E. Thorn publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 168 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Beverly E. Thorn D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Beverly E. Thorn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Beverly E. Thorn is affiliated with the University of Alabama in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the treatment and understanding of chronic pain through psychological and behavioral approaches.

The main fields of study associated with their work include Medicine, with a notable concentration in Pharmacology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

The scientist's research covers several key topics, including:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • Mark P. Jensen
  • Andrea K. Newman
  • John W. Burns
  • Melissa A. Day
  • Dawn M. Ehde

Key publication venues for Beverly E. Thorn include:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • BMC Medicine

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist are:

  • "Cognitive therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and behavior therapy for the treatment of chronic pain: randomized controlled trial," 2021, Pain
  • "Mechanisms of Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Therapy, and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain," 2020, Clinical Journal of Pain
  • "Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and pain education for people with chronic pain: Tests of treatment mechanisms," 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • "Intersectional identity approach to chronic pain disparities using latent class analysis," 2021, Pain
  • "Ronald Melzack Award Lecture: Putting the brain to work in cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain," 2020, Pain

Beverly E. Thorn was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Theoretical perspectives on the relation between catastrophizing and pain.

    Michael J. L. Sullivan;Beverly Thorn;Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite;Francis Keefe

  • An empirical assessment of pain beliefs

    David A. Williams;Beverly E. Thorn

  • A randomized clinical trial of targeted cognitive behavioral treatment to reduce catastrophizing in chronic headache sufferers.

    Beverly E. Thorn;Laura B. Pence;L. Charles Ward;Gary Kilgo

  • An evaluation of sex differences in psychological and physiological responses to experimentally-induced pain: a path analytic description.

    Kim E. Dixon;Beverly E. Thorn;L. Charles Ward

  • Recognizing, Assessing, and Intervening With Problems of Professional Competence

    Nadine J. Kaslow;Nancy J. Rubin;Linda Forrest;Nancy S. Elman

  • Catastrophizing and perceived partner responses to pain

    Jennifer L Boothby;Beverly E Thorn;Lorraine Y Overduin;L Charles Ward

  • Pain Assessment and Management in Cognitively Impaired Nursing Home Residents: Association of Certified Nursing Assistant Pain Report, Minimum Data Set Pain Report, and Analgesic Medication Use

    Susan E. Fisher;Louis D. Burgio;Beverly E. Thorn;Rebecca Allen-Burge

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for the treatment of headache pain: a pilot study.

    Melissa A. Day;Beverly E. Thorn;L. Charles Ward;Nancy Rubin

  • Cognitive therapy for chronic pain : a step-by-step guide

    Beverly E. Thorn;Dennis C. Turk

  • The relation between pain beliefs, negative thoughts, and psychosocial functioning in chronic pain patients

    Michael W Stroud;Beverly E Thorn;Mark P Jensen;Jennifer L Boothby

  • Personality factors in the explanation of sex differences in pain catastrophizing and response to experimental pain.

    Beverly E Thorn;Kristi L Clements;L Charles Ward;Kim E Dixon

  • Race and Sex Differences in Primary Appraisals, Catastrophizing, and Experimental Pain Outcomes

    Laura Pence Forsythe;Laura Pence Forsythe;Beverly Thorn;Melissa Day;Grace Shelby

  • Path model of psychological antecedents to pain experience: experimental and clinical findings.

    Michael J L Sullivan;Beverly Thorn;Wendy Rodgers;L Charles Ward

  • Effects of stress on methyltransferase synthesis: an important DNA repair enzyme.

    Ronald Glaser;Beverly E. Thorn;Kathleen L. Tarr;Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser

  • The relationship of demographic and psychosocial variables to pain-related outcomes in a rural chronic pain population

    Melissa A. Day;Beverly E. Thorn

  • The effect of headache pain on attention (encoding) and memory (recognition).

    Melissa Carter Kuhajda;Beverly E. Thorn;Mark R. Klinger;Nancy J. Rubin

  • Randomized trial of group cognitive behavioral therapy compared with a pain education control for low-literacy rural people with chronic pain.

    Beverly E. Thorn;Melissa A. Day;John Burns;Melissa C. Kuhajda

  • Toward a theoretical model for mindfulness-based pain management.

    Melissa Anne Day;Mark P Jensen;Dawn M. Ehde;Beverly E. Thorn

  • International Stakeholder Community of Pain Experts and Leaders Call for an Urgent Action on Forced Opioid Tapering.

    Beth D. Darnall;David Juurlink;Robert D. Kerns;Sean Mackey

  • Targeted treatment of catastrophizing for the management of chronic pain

    Beverly E. Thorn;Jennifer L. Boothby;Michael J.L. Sullivan

  • Evidence-based practice in psychology.

    Beverly E. Thorn

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark P. Jensen
Mark P. Jensen University of Washington
Dawn M. Ehde
Dawn M. Ehde University of Washington
Francis J. Keefe
Francis J. Keefe Duke University
Jason B. Mattingley
Jason B. Mattingley University of Queensland
Amanda J. Barnier
Amanda J. Barnier Macquarie University
Nadine J. Kaslow
Nadine J. Kaslow Emory University
Robert D. Kerns
Robert D. Kerns Yale University
David A. Williams
David A. Williams Boston Children's Hospital
William F. Chaplin
William F. Chaplin St. John's University
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser The Ohio State University

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