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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. 24.4% 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%
6.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
24.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+98%
the tick is no change

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 (4.5k and 527 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 4.5k works
  2. 2 Canada 527 works
  3. 3 Australia 293 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 290 works
  5. 5 India 113 works
  6. 6 France 113 works
  7. 7 China 95 works
  8. 8 Spain 92 works
  9. 9 Germany 77 works
  10. 10 Norway 71 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: 72.9%Canada: 8.5%Australia: 4.7%United Kingdom: 4.7%6 others listed: 9.1%73%largest
United States4,506 · 72.9%Canada527 · 8.5%Australia293 · 4.7%United Kingdom290 · 4.7%6 others listed562 · 9.1%

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

Which institutions lead Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Johns Hopkins University publishes the most Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 94 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 83 works
  3. 3 Yale UniversityUnited States 70 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 57 works
  5. 5 University of KentuckyUnited States 54 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 52 works
  7. 7 University of WashingtonUnited States 51 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 50 works
  9. 9 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 42 works
  10. 10 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment include Roger Chou, Dan J. Stein and Louisa Degenhardt.

  1. 1 Roger Chou United States 14k citations
  2. 2 Dan J. Stein South Africa 7.7k citations
  3. 3 Louisa Degenhardt Australia 5.7k citations

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

Where is Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research done?

The largest centres of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research in 2022–2025 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 Santa Monica, Lexington and Providence.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 226 works
  2. 2 Boston United States 201 works
  3. 3 Baltimore United States 182 works
  4. 4 Philadelphia United States 132 works
  5. 5 Toronto Canada 118 works
  6. 6 Vancouver Canada 98 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C. United States 95 works
  8. 8 Chapel Hill United States 87 works
  9. 9 New Haven United States 87 works
  10. 10 Seattle United States 85 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Santa MonicaUS · 25.8 works24×
  2. LexingtonUS · 56.7 works17×
  3. ProvidenceUS · 70.8 works17×
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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, Boston 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.

0%20%40%mean 28.47%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Boston University: 39, 32.8%Johns Hopkins University: 94, 24.2%New York University: 52, 29.7%Brown University: 40, 25.1%Harvard University: 57, 25.2%University of California, San Francisco: 41, 25.8%Yale University: 70, 21.7%The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: 19, 24.7%Oregon Health & Science University: 30, 29.2%University of Victoria: 10, 46.3%Boston UniversityNew York UniversityBrown UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Boston UniversityUnited States 74.132.8%11.9×39 +178.2%
2 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 71.424.2%13.1×94 +121.1%
3 New York UniversityUnited States 71.229.7%9.8×52 +145.3%
4 Brown UniversityUnited States 69.425.1%15.2×40 +202.6%
5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 66.425.2%6.7×57 +185.4%
6 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 64.925.8%9.8×41 +123.4%
7 Yale UniversityUnited States 63.721.7%10.4×70 +77.6%
8 The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUnited States 61.924.7%9.8×19 +284.6%
9 Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States 61.529.2%14.7×30 +92.4%
10 University of VictoriaCanada 61.446.3%6.8×10 +112.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Opioid Use Disorder Treatment research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 98% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.