OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Drug Policy is 37. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Bridging the gap: An environmental scan of post-overdose program features and evaluation measures	209
Editorial Board	140
Editorial Board	81
Editorial Board	77
Publisher's Note	66
Visitors of the Dutch drug checking services: Profile and drug use experience	64
Opioid agonist therapy engagement and crystal methamphetamine use: The impact of unregulated opioid use in Vancouver, Canada	60
Social-spatial network structures among young urban and suburban persons who inject drugs in a large metropolitan area	55
Quasi-experimental study on the impact of local smoke-free policies on smoking among Indonesian adults: Evidence from repeated national health surveys	54
Doing more with less: A proposal to advance cigarette packaging regulations in the United States	54
Older age at smoking initiation predicts successful cessation in adults who smoke: A prospective study	53
International property rights for Cannabis landraces and terroir products. The case of Moroccan Cannabis and hashish	53
Shifting awareness among electronic dance music party attendees that drugs may contain fentanyl or other adulterants	52
Enhancing equity-oriented care in psychedelic medicine: Utilizing the EQUIP framework	51
Diversion of medications to treat opioid use disorder: Qualitative findings from formerly incarcerated adults in Massachusetts	49
Opioid prescribing restrictions and opioid use among the Louisiana Medicaid population	48
Incarceration history, antiretroviral therapy, and stigma: A cross-sectional study of people with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia	48
Co-designing the INHSU Prisons Hepatitis C Advocacy Toolkit using the Advocacy Strategy Framework	47
The social-structural contexts of cannabis consumption and harm reduction among young Nigerian women	47
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of take-home doses of opioid agonist therapy in Ontario, Canada: A population-based time-series analysis	47
Inconsistencies between national drug policy and professional beliefs about psychoactive drugs among psychiatrists in the United States	46
Medication for opioid use disorder treatment continuity post-release from jail: A qualitative study with community-based treatment providers	43
A matter of craving–An archeology of relapse prevention in Swedish addiction treatment	43
Increased solitary drug use during COVID-19: An unintended consequence of social distancing	42
Leveraging pooled medical examiner records to surveil complex and emerging patterns of polysubstance use in the United States	42

A content analysis of cannabis edibles package marketing in the United States	40
Rethinking enhancement substance use: A critical discourse studies approach	40
The introduction of fentanyl on the US–Mexico border: An ethnographic account triangulated with drug checking data from Tijuana	40
Trends in the use of cannabis products in Canada and the USA, 2018 – 2020: Findings from the International Cannabis Policy Study	39
Identifying barriers and enablers to opt-out hepatitis C virus screening in provincial prisons in Quebec, Canada: A multilevel, multi-theory informed qualitative study with correctional and healthcare	39
‘Choice’ of social media platform or encrypted messaging app to buy and sell illegal drugs	39
How do patient, pharmacist and medication characteristics and prescription drug monitoring program alerts influence pharmacists' decisions to dispense opioids? A randomised controlled factorial experi	38
Harms to children from the financial effects of others’ drinking	38
Applying a mutual capacity building model to inform peer provider programs in South Africa and the United States: A combined qualitative analysis	38
The impact of an easy access drug supply management policy law on the consumption and abuse of opioids in Catalonia: A population-based study	38
Putting tendencies and trajectories to work: useful tools for engaging with accounts of change and recovery?	37
Ethical justifications for safe supply interventions	37
Strategies for addressing needle debris: A scoping review of needle debris and discarded drug paraphernalia associated with substance use	37