2026 Nanna B. Finnerup: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	86	1269	1148	9	8	403	48160
Medicine	86	13853	13041	151	143	404	48160

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Current National Ranking

Publications

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Neuroscience

1269

1148

403

48160

Medicine

13853

13041

151

143

404

48160

Neuroscience

D-Index

Citations

48160

World Ranking

1269

National Ranking

Medicine

D-Index

Citations

48160

World Ranking

13853

National Ranking

151

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

4539
Citations
Pharmacotherapy for neuropathic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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

4273
Citations
A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11.

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

3139
Citations
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

3136
Citations
Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: evidence-based recommendations.

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

2908
Citations
Neuropathic pain

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1876
Citations
Algorithm for neuropathic pain treatment:: an evidence based proposal.

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

1828
Citations
Neuropathic Pain: From Mechanisms to Treatment

Nanna Brix Finnerup;Rohini Kuner;Troels Staehelin Jensen

1352
Citations
The evidence for pharmacological treatment of neuropathic pain

Nanna Brix Finnerup;Søren Hein Sindrup;Troels Staehelin Jensen

1340
Citations
Neuropathic pain: An updated grading system for research and clinical practice

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

1303
Citations
The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: chronic neuropathic pain.

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

1034
Citations
Allodynia and hyperalgesia in neuropathic pain: clinical manifestations and mechanisms

Troels S Jensen;Troels S Jensen;Nanna B Finnerup

1006
Citations
Antidepressants in the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain

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

814
Citations
Central post-stroke pain: clinical characteristics, pathophysiology, and management.

Henriette Klit;Nanna B Finnerup;Troels S Jensen

783
Citations
Peripheral neuropathic pain: a mechanism-related organizing principle based on sensory profiles.

Ralf Baron;Christoph Maier;Nadine Attal;Andreas Binder

609
Citations
Trigeminal neuralgia New classification and diagnostic grading for practice and research

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

552
Citations
The neuropathic component in persistent postsurgical pain: a systematic literature review.

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

551
Citations
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

454
Citations
International Spinal Cord Injury Pain Classification: part I. Background and description

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

355
Citations
Pain and dysesthesia in patients with spinal cord injury: A postal survey.

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

348
Citations
Pharmacotherapy for Neuropathic Pain in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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

85
Citations