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Nanna B. Finnerup

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Neuroscience
Denmark
2026

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Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
48160
World Ranking
13853
National Ranking
151

Neuroscience

D-Index
86
Citations
48160
World Ranking
1269
National Ranking
9

Nanna B. Finnerup publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nanna B. Finnerup sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 403 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Nanna B. Finnerup D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nanna B. Finnerup sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Nanna B. Finnerup is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work emphasizes physiology, neurology, pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health as key subfields.

Their main research topics focus on pain mechanisms and treatments, botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders, pain management and placebo effects, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, cancer treatment and pharmacology, pain management and opioid use, and cannabis and cannabinoid research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nanna B. Finnerup include Troels S. Jensen, Hatice Tankişi, Sandra Sif Gylfadottir, Andrew S.C. Rice, and Alexander Gramm Kristensen.

They regularly publish in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Pain
  • European Journal of Pain
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Scandinavian Journal of Pain
  • Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System

Among recent papers authored by or involving Nanna B. Finnerup are:

  • Neuropathic Pain: From Mechanisms to Treatment, 2020, Physiological Reviews

Other relevant recent publications related to pain research include:

  • The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises, 2020, Pain
  • Painful and non-painful diabetic neuropathy, diagnostic challenges and implications for future management, 2021, Brain
  • Cannabinoids, cannabis, and cannabis-based medicine for pain management: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials, 2020, Pain
  • Metabolic Factors, Lifestyle Habits, and Possible Polyneuropathy in Early Type 2 Diabetes: A Nationwide Study of 5,249 Patients in the Danish Centre for Strategic Research in Type 2 Diabetes (DD2) Cohort, 2020, Diabetes Care

Best Publications

  • The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises.

    Srinivasa N. Raja;Daniel B. Carr;Milton Cohen;Nanna B. Finnerup;Nanna B. Finnerup

  • Pharmacotherapy for neuropathic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Nanna B Finnerup;Nadine Attal;Simon Haroutounian;Ewan McNicol

  • 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

  • Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: evidence-based recommendations.

    Robert H. Dworkin;Alec B. O'Connor;Miroslav Backonja;John T. Farrar

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  • Algorithm for neuropathic pain treatment:: an evidence based proposal.

    N.B. Finnerup;Marit Otto;H.J. McQuay;T.S. Jensen

  • Neuropathic Pain: From Mechanisms to Treatment

    Nanna Brix Finnerup;Rohini Kuner;Troels Staehelin Jensen

  • The evidence for pharmacological treatment of neuropathic pain

    Nanna Brix Finnerup;Søren Hein Sindrup;Troels Staehelin Jensen

  • Neuropathic pain: An updated grading system for research and clinical practice

    Nanna B. Finnerup;Simon Haroutounian;Peter Kamerman;Ralf Baron

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

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

  • Allodynia and hyperalgesia in neuropathic pain: clinical manifestations and mechanisms

    Troels S Jensen;Troels S Jensen;Nanna B Finnerup

  • Antidepressants in the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain

    Søren H Sindrup;Marit Otto;Nanna B Finnerup;Troels S Jensen

  • Central post-stroke pain: clinical characteristics, pathophysiology, and management.

    Henriette Klit;Nanna B Finnerup;Troels S Jensen

  • Peripheral neuropathic pain: a mechanism-related organizing principle based on sensory profiles.

    Ralf Baron;Christoph Maier;Nadine Attal;Andreas Binder

  • Trigeminal neuralgia New classification and diagnostic grading for practice and research

    Giorgio Cruccu;Nanna B. Finnerup;Troels S. Jensen;Joachim Scholz

  • The neuropathic component in persistent postsurgical pain: a systematic literature review.

    Simon Haroutiunian;Lone Nikolajsen;Nanna Brix Finnerup;Troels Staehelin Jensen

  • The effect of oxcarbazepine in peripheral neuropathic pain depends on pain phenotype: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phenotype-stratified study.

    Dyveke Torgaard Demant;Karen Lund;Jan Vollert;Christoph Maier

  • International Spinal Cord Injury Pain Classification: part I. Background and description

    Bryce Tn;Biering-Sørensen F;Finnerup Nb;Cardenas Dd

  • Pain and dysesthesia in patients with spinal cord injury: A postal survey.

    N B Finnerup;I L Johannesen;S H Sindrup;F W Bach

  • Pharmacotherapy for Neuropathic Pain in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    N.B. Finnerup;N. Attal;S. Haroutounian

Frequent Co-Authors

Troels S. Jensen
Troels S. Jensen Aarhus University
Søren Hein Sindrup
Søren Hein Sindrup Odense University Hospital
Andrew S.C. Rice
Andrew S.C. Rice Imperial College London
Rolf-Detlef Treede
Rolf-Detlef Treede Heidelberg University
Philip J. Siddall
Philip J. Siddall University of Sydney
Per Hansson
Per Hansson Karolinska Institute
Fin Biering-Sørensen
Fin Biering-Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Nadine Attal
Nadine Attal Grenoble Alpes University
Eva Widerström-Noga
Eva Widerström-Noga University of Miami

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