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Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

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Medicine
Netherlands
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
123
Citations
67417
World Ranking
3305
National Ranking
32

Johan W.S. Vlaeyen publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Johan W.S. Vlaeyen sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 553 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Johan W.S. Vlaeyen D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Johan W.S. Vlaeyen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 123 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Johan W.S. Vlaeyen is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a significant publication record primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research spans a variety of subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work focuses on key topics such as musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, pain management and placebo effect, pain mechanisms and treatments, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, cognitive processes, pediatric pain management techniques, hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics, as well as mindfulness and compassion interventions.

The scientist has contributed to several important journals and publication venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • Scandinavian Journal of Pain
  • Clinical Journal of Pain
  • European Journal of Pain

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Vlaeyen cover a range of topics related to pain and clinical research. Notable papers include:

  • From Boulder to Stockholm in 70 Years: Single Case Experimental Designs in Clinical Research (2020), published in The Psychological Record
  • Low back pain (2021), published in The Lancet
  • Establishment of an International Collaborative Network for N-of-1 Trials and Single-Case Designs (2021), published in Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy for tinnitus (2020), published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Can Slow Deep Breathing Reduce Pain? An Experimental Study Exploring Mechanisms (2020), published in Journal of Pain

Vlaeyen has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Ann Meulders, Lukas Van Oudenhove, Geert Crombez, Ilse Van Diest, and Andreas von Leupoldt, reflecting a networked approach to interdisciplinary research.

Best Publications

  • Fear-avoidance and its consequences in chronic musculoskeletal pain: a state of the art

    Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Steven J. Linton

  • A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11.

    Rolf Detlef Treede;Winfried Rief;Antonia Barke;Qasim Aziz

  • Chronic pain as a symptom or a disease: the IASP Classification of Chronic Pain for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

    Rolf Detlef Treede;Winfried Rief;Antonia Barke;Qasim Aziz

  • Fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain and its relation to behavioral performance

    Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Ank M.J. Kole-Snijders;Ruben G.B. Boeren;H. van Eek

  • The fear-avoidance model of musculoskeletal pain: current state of scientific evidence.

    Maaike Leeuw;Mariëlle E. J. B. Goossens;Steven J. Linton;Geert Crombez

  • Pain-related fear is more disabling than pain itself: evidence on the role of pain-related fear in chronic back pain disability.

    Geert Crombez;Johan W.S Vlaeyen;Peter H.T.G Heuts;Roland Lysens

  • The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: Chronic primary pain

    Michael Nicholas;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Winfried Rief;Antonia Barke

  • Behavioural treatment for chronic low-back pain

    Nicholas Henschke;Raymond W.J.G. Ostelo;Maurits W. van Tulder;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

  • Fear-avoidance model of chronic pain: the next generation.

    Geert Crombez;Christopher Eccleston;Stefaan Van Damme;Johan W S Vlaeyen;Johan W S Vlaeyen

  • Fear-avoidance model of chronic musculoskeletal pain: 12 years on

    Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Steven J. Linton

  • The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: chronic neuropathic pain.

    Joachim Scholz;Nanna B. Finnerup;Nadine Attal;Qasim Aziz

  • Pain Catastrophizing and Kinesiophobia: Predictors of Chronic Low Back Pain

    H. Susan J. Picavet;Johan W. S. Vlaeyen;Jan S. A. G. Schouten

  • The role of fear of movement/(re)injury in pain disability.

    Johan W. S. Vlaeyen;Ank M. J. Kole-Snijders;Annemarie M. Rotteveel;Renske Ruesink

  • Pain catastrophizing predicts pain intensity, disability, and psychological distress independent of the level of physical impairment

    Rudy Severeijns;Johan W. S. Vlaeyen;Marcel A. Van Den Hout;Wim E. J. Weber

  • Reduction of pain catastrophizing mediates the outcome of both physical and cognitive-behavioral treatment in chronic low back pain.

    Rob J.E.M. Smeets;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Arnold D.M. Kester;J. André Knottnerus

  • Behavioral Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain : A Systematic Review Within the Framework of the Cochrane Back Review Group

    Maurits W. Van Tulder;Raymond Ostelo;T. Johan W. S. Vlaeyen;Steven J. Linton

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy for tinnitus

    Pablo Martinez-Devesa;Rafael Perera;Megan Theodoulou;Angus Waddell

  • The treatment of fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain: further evidence on the effectiveness of exposure in vivo.

    Johan W. S. Vlaeyen;Jeroen de Jong;Mario Geilen;Peter H. T. G. Heuts

  • Graded exposure in vivo in the treatment of pain-related fear: a replicated single-case experimental design in four patients with chronic low back pain.

    Johan W.S Vlaeyen;Jeroen de Jong;Mario Geilen;Peter H.T.G Heuts

  • The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia: further examination of psychometric properties in patients with chronic low back pain and fibromyalgia

    Jeffrey Roelofs;Liesbet Goubert;Madelon L. Peters;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann Meulders
Ann Meulders Maastricht University
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Madelon L. Peters
Madelon L. Peters Maastricht University
Jeffrey Roelofs
Jeffrey Roelofs Maastricht University
Steven J. Linton
Steven J. Linton Örebro University
Liesbet Goubert
Liesbet Goubert Ghent University
Katja Wiech
Katja Wiech University of Oxford
Stephen Morley
Stephen Morley University of Leeds

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