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Youth, Drugs, and Violence

Youth, Drugs, and Violence is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the patterns and impacts of drug use, with a focus on cocaine and crack, among adolescents and adults in Brazil. It covers prevalence, risk factors, family influences, treatment strategies, and the broader social context. The research sheds light on public health implications and provides insights for addressing drug use issues in the country.

  • Cocaine
  • Crack
  • Adolescents
  • Family
  • Health
  • Prevalence
  • Risk Factors
  • Treatment
  • Social Context
  • Public Health
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
83% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Youth, Drugs, and Violence

Which countries lead Youth, Drugs, and Violence research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (5.3k and 266 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 5.3k works
  2. 2 United States 266 works
  3. 3 Portugal 254 works
  4. 4 Spain 147 works
  5. 5 Mexico 117 works
  6. 6 ?? 97 works
  7. 7 Colombia 60 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 55 works
  9. 9 Argentina 51 works
  10. 10 France 48 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.

Brazil: 82.9%United States: 4.2%Portugal: 4.0%Spain: 2.3%6 others listed: 6.7%83%largest
Brazil5,304 · 82.9%United States266 · 4.2%Portugal254 · 4.0%Spain147 · 2.3%6 others listed428 · 6.7%

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

Which institutions lead Youth, Drugs, and Violence research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Youth, Drugs, and Violence research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 141 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 89 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 87 works
  4. 4 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 80 works
  5. 5 Fundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil 76 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 75 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 74 works
  8. 8 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 69 works
  9. 9 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 69 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 68 works

Who are the leading researchers in Youth, Drugs, and Violence?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Youth, Drugs, and Violence include Isabela M. Benseñor, Paulo A. Lotufo and Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Isabela M. Benseñor Brazil 245k citations
  2. 2 Paulo A. Lotufo Brazil 239k citations
  3. 3 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  4. 4 Itamar S Santos Brazil 199k citations
  5. 5 Bruce Bartholow Duncan Brazil 198k citations
  6. 6 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k citations
  7. 7 Kathryn H. Jacobsen United States 190k citations
  8. 8 María Inês Schmidt Brazil 163k citations
  9. 9 André Faro Brazil 155k citations
  10. 10 Robin M. Murray United Kingdom 154k 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 Youth, Drugs, and Violence?

The most cited paper in Youth, Drugs, and Violence is "The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST): development, reliability and feasibility" (WHO ASSIST Working Group, 2002), with 2,027 citations. Next come "El informe mundial sobre la violencia y la salud." (1,059) and "The alcohol use disorder and associated disabilities interview schedule (AUDADIS): reliability of alcohol and drug modules in a general population sample" (701).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST): development, reliability and feasibility WHO ASSIST Working Group · Addiction Open access 30 Aug 2002 2,027
2 El informe mundial sobre la violencia y la salud. Etienne G. Krug, James A. Mercy, Linda L. Dahlberg et al. · Biomédica Open access Dec 2002 1,059
3 The alcohol use disorder and associated disabilities interview schedule (AUDADIS): reliability of alcohol and drug modules in a general population sample Bridget F. Grant · Drug and Alcohol Dependence Jul 1995 701
4 Amostragem em pesquisas qualitativas: proposta de procedimentos para constatar saturação teórica Bruno José Barcellos Fontanella, Bruna Moretti Luchesi, Maria Giovana Borges Saidel et al. · Cadernos de Saúde Pública Open access Feb 2011 653
5 O quadrilátero da formação para a área da saúde: ensino, gestão, atenção e controle social Ricardo Burg Ceccim, Laura Camargo Macruz Feuerwerker · Physis Revista de Saúde Coletiva Open access Jun 2004 636
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Where is Youth, Drugs, and Violence research done?

The largest centres of Youth, Drugs, and Violence research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Barbacena, Criciúma and Patos de Minas.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 803 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 481 works
  3. 3 Belo HorizonteBrazil 227 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 207 works
  5. 5 RecifeBrazil 165 works
  6. 6 FortalezaBrazil 159 works
  7. 7 Porto AlegreBrazil 144 works
  8. 8 CuritibaBrazil 123 works
  9. 9 LisbonPortugal 121 works
  10. 10 BelémBrazil 118 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BarbacenaBR · 26.1 works107×
  2. Criciúma22.4 works105×
  3. Patos de MinasBR · 34.8 works99×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Youth, Drugs, and Violence than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Youth, Drugs, and Violence?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Universidade Brasil and Universidade de São Paulo 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.

0%10%20%mean 15.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade BrasilUniversidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 71.320.7%26.6×68 -12.1%
2Universidade BrasilBrazil 69.222.5%31.9×20 +13.1%
3Universidade de São PauloBrazil 64.413.5%11.9×141 -17.9%
4Universidade Federal de Ouro PretoBrazil 58.122.1%20.6×16 +30.9%
5Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 58.012.4%20.0×87 -15.3%
6Universidade Presidente Antônio CarlosBrazil 55.716.4%114.1×26 +237.6%
7Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 54.711.2%19.3×89 -36.6%
8Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil 54.29.3%53.6×54 +15.0%
9Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 53.912.0%23.6×52 -6.6%
10Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 53.112.0%16.5×74 -15.5%

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 Youth, Drugs, and Violence, country by country

Is Youth, Drugs, and Violence research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% 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 Youth, Drugs, and Violence as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Youth, Drugs, and Violence0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Youth, Drugs, and Violence 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%Youth, Drugs, and Violence9.8% 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.

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