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Thomas Graven-Nielsen

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Neuroscience
Denmark
2026

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Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
28952
World Ranking
9417
National Ranking
108

Neuroscience

D-Index
97
Citations
28862
World Ranking
839
National Ranking
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Thomas Graven-Nielsen 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 Thomas Graven-Nielsen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 738 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Graven-Nielsen 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 Thomas Graven-Nielsen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% 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

Overview

Thomas Graven-Nielsen is affiliated with Aalborg University in Denmark and has a significant publication record centered on pain research and neuroscience. Their work spans medicine and neuroscience, with particular emphasis on physiology, neurology, pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, and anesthesiology and pain medicine.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on pain mechanisms and treatments, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, pain management and treatment, pain management and placebo effect, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, and muscle activation and electromyography studies.

Frequent publication venues for Thomas Graven-Nielsen include:

  • Pain (17 publications)
  • European Journal of Pain (13 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (13 publications)
  • Journal of Pain (11 publications)
  • Clinical Journal of Pain (3 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Graven-Nielsen include:

  • Features and methods to discriminate between mechanism-based categories of pain experienced in the musculoskeletal system: a Delphi expert consensus study, 2022, Pain
  • Pain, Sports Participation, and Physical Function in Adolescents With Patellofemoral Pain and Osgood-Schlatter Disease: A Matched Cross-sectional Study, 2020, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy
  • Challenges and opportunities in translational pain research - An opinion paper of the working group on translational pain research of the European pain federation (EFIC), 2021, European Journal of Pain
  • Impaired exercise-induced hypoalgesia in individuals reporting an increase in low back pain during acute exercise, 2021, European Journal of Pain
  • Individualized Augmented Reality Training Reduces Phantom Pain and Cortical Reorganization in Amputees: A Proof of Concept Study, 2020, Journal of Pain

Thomas Graven-Nielsen has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Daniel Ciampi de Andrade
  • Enrico De Martino
  • Lars Arendt-Nielsen
  • Anna M. Zamorano
  • Adenauer G. Casali

The scientist's extensive focus on pain mechanisms is reflected in their main topics of work, which cover a broad range of related clinical and experimental areas.

Overall, Thomas Graven-Nielsen's research work contributes to a deeper understanding of pain physiology and treatment across multiple disciplines within medicine and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Sensitization in patients with painful knee osteoarthritis.

    Lars Arendt-Nielsen;HongLing Nie;Mogens Berg Laursen;Birgitte Schantz Laursen

  • Assessment of mechanisms in localized and widespread musculoskeletal pain

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  • The influence of low back pain on muscle activity and coordination during gait: a clinical and experimental study

    Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Heine Svarrer;Peter Svensson

  • Ketamine reduces muscle pain, temporal summation, and referred pain in fibromyalgia patients

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Sally Aspegren Kendall;Karl G. Henriksson;Mats Bengtsson

  • Inhibition of motor system excitability at cortical and spinal level by tonic muscle pain

    Domenica Le Pera;Domenica Le Pera;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Massimiliano Valeriani;Antonio Oliviero

  • Effects of experimental muscle pain on muscle activity and co-ordination during static and dynamic motor function.

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Peter Svensson;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  • Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia in Pain-Free and Chronic Pain Populations: State of the Art and Future Directions

    David Rice;Jo Nijs;Eva Kosek;Timothy Wideman

  • Normalization of widespread hyperesthesia and facilitated spatial summation of deep-tissue pain in knee osteoarthritis patients after knee replacement.

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen;T. Wodehouse;R. M. Langford;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  • Osteoarthritis and its association with muscle hyperalgesia: an experimental controlled study

    Prem Bajaj;Priti Bajaj;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  • Craniofacial muscle pain: review of mechanisms and clinical manifestations.

    Peter Svensson;Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  • Hyperexcitability in fibromyalgia

    J Sörensen;T Graven-Nielsen;K G Henriksson;M Bengtsson

  • Generalized deep-tissue hyperalgesia in patients with chronic low-back pain

    Søren O'Neill;Claus Manniche;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  • Generalised muscular hyperalgesia in chronic whiplash syndrome.

    Mona Koelbaek Johansen;Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Anders Schou Olesen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  • INHIBITION OF MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION FORCE BY EXPERIMENTAL MUSCLE PAIN: A CENTRALLY MEDIATED MECHANISM

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Hans Lund;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Bente Danneskiold-Samsøe

  • The peripheral apparatus of muscle pain: evidence from animal and human studies.

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Sigfried Mense

  • Quantification of local and referred muscle pain in humans after sequential i.m. injections of hypertonic saline

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Peter Svensson;Troels Staehelin Jensen

  • Incidence and epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures

    Peter Larsen;Rasmus Elsoe;Sandra Hope Hansen;Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  • Activation of peripheral NMDA receptors contributes to human pain and rat afferent discharges evoked by injection of glutamate into the masseter muscle.

    Brian E. Cairns;Peter Svensson;Kelun Wang;Steen Hupfeld

  • Similarities between exercise-induced hypoalgesia and conditioned pain modulation in humans.

    Henrik Bjarke Vaegter;Gitte Handberg;Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  • Central sensitization in fibromyalgia and other musculoskeletal disorders

    Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Thomas Graven-Nielsen

  • Fundamentals of muscle pain, referred pain, and deep tissue hyperalgesia.

    Thomas Graven-Nielsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Lars Arendt-Nielsen Aalborg University
Peter Svensson
Peter Svensson Aarhus University
Henning Bliddal
Henning Bliddal Copenhagen University Hospital
Dario Farina
Dario Farina Imperial College London
Siobhan M. Schabrun
Siobhan M. Schabrun Neuroscience Research Australia
Troels S. Jensen
Troels S. Jensen Aarhus University
Deborah Falla
Deborah Falla University of Birmingham
Asbjørn Mohr Drewes
Asbjørn Mohr Drewes Aalborg University
Ole Kæseler Andersen
Ole Kæseler Andersen Aalborg University
Kelun Wang
Kelun Wang Aalborg University

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