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Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 49k 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 epidemiology, risk factors, comorbidities, and interventions related to substance use disorders, particularly alcohol dependence. It covers topics such as the global burden of disease, motivational interviewing, adolescent drug use, psychiatric disorders, impulsivity, college drinking, and behavioral interventions.

  • Substance Use Disorders
  • Alcohol Dependence
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Global Burden of Disease
  • Adolescent Drug Use
  • Psychiatric Disorders
  • Impulsivity
  • College Drinking
  • Behavioral Interventions
  • Prevention Efforts
Research works
49k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
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
62% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

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

Which countries lead Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes research?

By volume, the United States and Canada publish the most (4.9k and 652 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 4.9k works
  2. 2 Canada 652 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 592 works
  4. 4 Australia 535 works
  5. 5 India 276 works
  6. 6 China 242 works
  7. 7 Germany 231 works
  8. 8 Spain 209 works
  9. 9 Sweden 156 works
  10. 10 Brazil 151 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: 61.8%Canada: 8.2%United Kingdom: 7.4%Australia: 6.7%6 others listed: 15.9%62%largest
United States4,929 · 61.8%Canada652 · 8.2%United Kingdom592 · 7.4%Australia535 · 6.7%6 others listed1,265 · 15.9%

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

Which institutions lead Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes research, followed by University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 131 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 115 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 104 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 95 works
  5. 5 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 91 works
  6. 6 Yale UniversityUnited States 90 works
  7. 7 University of WashingtonUnited States 79 works
  8. 8 Brown UniversityUnited States 73 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 67 works
  10. 10 New York UniversityUnited States 67 works

Who are the leading researchers in Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes include David Moher, Ahmedin Jemal and Christopher J L Murray.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  3. 3 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  4. 4 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  5. 5 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  6. 6 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  7. 7 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  8. 8 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  9. 9 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  10. 10 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k 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 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes?

The most cited paper in Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes is "Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐II" (JOHN B. DEC. M. SAUNDERS, Olaf Gjerløw Aasland, Thomas F. Babor et al., 1993), with 13,467 citations. Next come "The AUDIT Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C) An Effective Brief Screening Test for Problem Drinking" (6,306) and "Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General Population" (5,814).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐II JOHN B. DEC. M. SAUNDERS, Olaf Gjerløw Aasland, Thomas F. Babor et al. · Addiction Jun 1993 13,467
2 The AUDIT Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C) An Effective Brief Screening Test for Problem Drinking Kristen Bush · Archives of Internal Medicine 14 Sep 1998 6,306
3 Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General Population Ronald C. Kessler, Peggy R. Barker, Lisa J. Colpe et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry Feb 2003 5,814
4 Snowball Sampling: Problems and Techniques of Chain Referral Sampling Patrick Biernacki, Dan Waldorf · Sociological Methods & Research Nov 1981 5,509
5 Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention. J. David Hawkins, Richard F. Catalano, Janet Y. Miller · Psychological Bulletin 1992 5,377
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Where is Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes research done?

The largest centres of Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Boston (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Santa Monica and Providence.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 227 works
  2. 2 BostonUnited States 171 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 171 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 163 works
  5. 5 MelbourneAustralia 156 works
  6. 6 BaltimoreUnited States 149 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 128 works
  8. 8 New HavenUnited States 104 works
  9. 9 SeattleUnited States 102 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 101 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Santa MonicaUS · 34.7 works22×
  2. ProvidenceUS · 87.3 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Yale University and University of Toronto score highest, combining citation 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.

Citation 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 78.417.7%4.7×131 +10.7%
2Yale UniversityUnited States 70.115.4%9.4×90 -3.2%
3University of TorontoCanada 68.814.6%6.5×115 +3.3%
4University of WashingtonUnited States 67.310.5%8.0×79 +18.0%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 66.111.8%7.7×104 +5.2%
6University of OttawaCanada 64.619.3%4.3×25 +37.8%
7New York UniversityUnited States 63.511.7%6.7×67 +20.7%
8University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 63.116.5%8.6×53 +6.0%
9University of MichiganUnited States 62.314.3%5.0×67 -0.4%
10University of British ColumbiaCanada 62.312.5%6.0×63 +9.8%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, country by country

Is Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes.

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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 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes 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%Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes9.9% 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.

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