Also this year, following the success of the 2025 edition, the  Early Career Research Mentorship Program was launched on The Journal of Headache and Pain. This program allows PhD, Post-Doc or Resident  to compete for one of ten waivers kindly offered by Springer Nature for a publication in The Journal of Headache and Pain.

This incentive, on the one hand, helps emerging early-career researchers address the long-standing hurdle of the Article Processing Charge; on the other hand, it highlights them within their research group; and last but not least, it allows them to be appointed to the Junior Editorial Board of The Journal of Headache and Pain. Another important opportunity for those who win this competition is to be invited, as an emerging group, to prepare one or more invited reviews in the year following the competition.

I am confident that also this year there will be a large participation with high-quality submissions, so as to continue the mentorship activity and the recruitment of emerging talents in the field of headache and pain.

Paolo Martelletti

Editor-in-Chief (Founding)

The Journal of Headache and Pain