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Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Opioid Use Disorder Treatment is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the opioid epidemic in the United States, covering topics such as opioid prescribing guidelines, chronic pain management, opioid overdose, addiction treatment, prescription opioids, mortality risk, substance use disorders, abuse and dependence, medication-assisted therapy, and the public health crisis associated with opioid misuse.

  • Opioid Prescribing
  • Chronic Pain Management
  • Opioid Overdose
  • Addiction Treatment
  • Prescription Opioids
  • Mortality Risk
  • Substance Use Disorders
  • Abuse and Dependence
  • Medication-Assisted Therapy
  • Public Health Crisis
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
73% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research?

By volume, the United States and Canada publish the most (5.1k and 593 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 5.1k works
  2. 2 Canada 593 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 334 works
  4. 4 Australia 327 works
  5. 5 India 141 works
  6. 6 China 135 works
  7. 7 France 126 works
  8. 8 Spain 107 works
  9. 9 Germany 91 works
  10. 10 Norway 78 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 72.7%Canada: 8.4%United Kingdom: 4.7%Australia: 4.6%6 others listed: 9.6%73%largest
United States5,148 · 72.7%Canada593 · 8.4%United Kingdom334 · 4.7%Australia327 · 4.6%6 others listed678 · 9.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research, followed by Johns Hopkins University and United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 161 works
  2. 2 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 140 works
  3. 3 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 131 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 106 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 92 works
  6. 6 University of British ColumbiaCanada 87 works
  7. 7 Yale UniversityUnited States 85 works
  8. 8 University of WashingtonUnited States 74 works
  9. 9 New York UniversityUnited States 71 works
  10. 10 University of MichiganUnited States 68 works

Who are the leading researchers in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment include David Moher, Christopher J L Murray and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  6. 6 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  7. 7 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  8. 8 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  9. 9 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  10. 10 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment?

The most cited paper in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment is "Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010" (Harvey Whiteford, Louisa J Degenhardt, Jürgen Rehm et al., 2013), with 6,141 citations. Next come "CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016" (5,206) and "The fifth edition of the addiction severity index" (4,277).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 Harvey Whiteford, Louisa J Degenhardt, Jürgen Rehm et al. · The Lancet 28 Aug 2013 6,141
2 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 Deborah Dowell, Tamara M. Haegerich, Roger Chou · JAMA Open access 15 Mar 2016 5,206
3 The fifth edition of the addiction severity index A. Thomas McLellan, HARVEY W. KUSHNER, David S. Metzger et al. · Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment Open access 1992 4,277
4 Detecting alcoholism. The CAGE questionnaire James Alfred Ewing · JAMA 12 Oct 1984 4,005
5 The drug abuse screening test Harvey A. Skinner · Addictive Behaviors 1982 3,167
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Where is Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research done?

The largest centres of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Boston (United States), Baltimore (United States) and Philadelphia (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in West Haven, Santa Monica and Lexington.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 254 works
  2. 2 BostonUnited States 226 works
  3. 3 BaltimoreUnited States 202 works
  4. 4 PhiladelphiaUnited States 152 works
  5. 5 TorontoCanada 131 works
  6. 6 VancouverCanada 112 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 107 works
  8. 8 Chapel HillUnited States 106 works
  9. 9 New HavenUnited States 101 works
  10. 10 SeattleUnited States 100 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. West HavenUS · 20.5 works38×
  2. Santa MonicaUS · 30.1 works24×
  3. LexingtonUS · 64.8 works17×
  4. ProvidenceUS · 80.0 works16×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Opioid Use Disorder Treatment?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and New York University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 71.914.2%7.3×162 -8.1%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 71.512.3%13.0×140 +8.6%
3New York UniversityUnited States 68.114.3%9.0×71 +22.7%
4University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 67.015.9%12.2×61 +9.3%
5University of VictoriaCanada 65.924.2%7.0×11 +15.0%
6University of TorontoCanada 65.511.7%6.5×92 +10.5%
7University of British ColumbiaCanada 64.913.4%10.4×87 -13.5%
8Boston UniversityUnited States 64.816.3%13.5×45 +5.6%
9University of WashingtonUnited States 63.910.0%9.4×74 +32.8%
10Columbia UniversityUnited States 62.613.9%7.2×55 +1.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, country by country

Is Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Opioid Use Disorder Treatment.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Opioid Use Disorder Treatment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Opioid Use Disorder Treatment0.034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Opioid Use Disorder Treatment9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

Questions people ask

Who is researching a cure for opioid addiction?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research, followed by Johns Hopkins University and United States Department of Veterans Affairs. By volume, the United States and Canada publish the most (5.1k and 593 works in 2022-now).

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