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Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Smoking Behavior and Cessation is a research topic within Physiology. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1952. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on smoking cessation, the health effects of tobacco use, nicotine addiction, and the impact of public health campaigns. It covers topics such as the efficacy of smoking cessation therapies, the association between smoking and various health conditions, the use of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid, and the effects of secondhand smoke on public health.

  • Smoking Cessation
  • Tobacco Use
  • Nicotine Addiction
  • Health Consequences
  • E-Cigarettes
  • Public Health Campaigns
  • Secondhand Smoke
  • Nicotine Metabolism
  • Psychiatric Disorders
  • Cancer Risk
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Smoking Behavior and Cessation

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

Which countries lead Smoking Behavior and Cessation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.9k and 452 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.9k works
  2. 2 China 452 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 436 works
  4. 4 India 382 works
  5. 5 Australia 275 works
  6. 6 Canada 226 works
  7. 7 South Korea 165 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 147 works
  9. 9 Spain 147 works
  10. 10 Brazil 141 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: 55.2%China: 8.6%United Kingdom: 8.3%India: 7.2%6 others listed: 20.8%55%largest
United States2,915 · 55.2%China452 · 8.6%United Kingdom436 · 8.3%India382 · 7.2%6 others listed1,100 · 20.8%

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

Which institutions lead Smoking Behavior and Cessation research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Smoking Behavior and Cessation research, followed by Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 125 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 64 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 62 works
  4. 4 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 55 works
  5. 5 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 53 works
  6. 6 Yale UniversityUnited States 51 works
  7. 7 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 51 works
  8. 8 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 42 works
  9. 9 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 39 works
  10. 10 University of MichiganUnited States 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Smoking Behavior and Cessation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Smoking Behavior and Cessation include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Ahmedin Jemal.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  4. 4 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  5. 5 Rebecca L. Siegel United States 582k citations
  6. 6 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  7. 7 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  8. 8 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  9. 9 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  10. 10 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k 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 Smoking Behavior and Cessation?

The most cited paper in Smoking Behavior and Cessation is "Short-Term Effects of Nose-Only Cigarette Smoke Exposure on Glutathione Redox Homeostasis, Cytochrome P450 1A1/2 and Respiratory Enzyme Activities in Mice Tissues" (Haider Raza, Annie John, Abderrahim Nemmar, 2013), with 47,289 citations. Next come "The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence: a revision of the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire" (10,879) and "Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000" (5,270).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Short-Term Effects of Nose-Only Cigarette Smoke Exposure on Glutathione Redox Homeostasis, Cytochrome P450 1A1/2 and Respiratory Enzyme Activities in Mice Tissues Haider Raza, Annie John, Abderrahim Nemmar · Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry Open access 2013 47,289
2 The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence: a revision of the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire Todd F. Heatherton, Lynn T. Kozlowski, Richard C. Frecker et al. · British Journal of Addiction Sep 1991 10,879
3 Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000 Ali H. Mokdad · JAMA 9 Mar 2004 5,270
4 Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults - United States, 2016. Ahmed Jamal, Elyse Phillips, Andrea S. Gentzke et al. · PubMed Open access 28 Nov 2014 2,666
5 Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults — United States, 2005–2014 Ahmed Jamal, David M. Homa, Erin L. O’Connor et al. · MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 10 Nov 2015 2,559
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Where is Smoking Behavior and Cessation research done?

The largest centres of Smoking Behavior and Cessation research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Chapel Hill (United States), New York (United States) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Burlington, Charleston and Rockville.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 149 works
  2. 2 Chapel HillUnited States 121 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 110 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 97 works
  5. 5 Los AngelesUnited States 94 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 93 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 85 works
  8. 8 BaltimoreUnited States 83 works
  9. 9 AtlantaUnited States 80 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 75 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BurlingtonUS · 25.8 works18×
  2. CharlestonUS · 32.6 works14×
  3. RockvilleUS · 20.8 works14×
  4. Oklahoma CityUS · 24.6 works13×
  5. RichmondUS · 42.6 works11×
  6. BuffaloUS · 37.6 works9.8×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Smoking Behavior and Cessation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Smoking Behavior and Cessation?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Yale University and University of California, San Francisco 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 17.46%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordUniversity College L…University of Califo…Yale University
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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
1University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.924.8%3.8×39 -2.6%
2Yale UniversityUnited States 59.814.3%7.4×51 +18.0%
3University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 55.216.6%11.7×53 -40.1%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 55.239.4%1.5×13 -20.7%
5Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 55.013.7%8.4×42 +21.3%
6Harvard UniversityUnited States 52.814.4%3.2×64 -20.6%
7The University of QueenslandAustralia 52.213.9%5.2×31 +58.0%
8Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States 51.813.6%20.9×32 +12.8%
9University of BathUnited Kingdom 51.714.0%11.0×17 +31.4%
10The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 51.69.9%7.1×55 +23.0%

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 Smoking Behavior and Cessation, country by country

Is Smoking Behavior and Cessation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Smoking Behavior and Cessation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Smoking Behavior and Cessation0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Smoking Behavior and Cessation 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%Smoking Behavior and Cessation9.8% 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 leads smoking and quitting research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Smoking Behavior and Cessation research, followed by Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.9k and 452 works in 2022-now).

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