TABLE 6.

The top five cited references for the highest frequency of pain catastrophizing.

Ranking	Frequency	Cited reference	Representative author (publication year)
1	100	Pain catastrophizing: a critical review	Quartana, 2009
2	71	The Fear-avoidance model of musculoskeletal pain: current state of scientific evidence	Leeuw et al., 2007
3	58	Pain, catastrophizing, and depression in the rheumatic diseases	Edwards et al., 2011
4	49	Central sensitization: implications for the diagnosis and treatment of pain	Woolf, 2011
5	48	Pain catastrophizing in children with chronic pain and their parents: Proposed clinical reference points and reexamination of the PCS measure	Pielech et al., 2014