OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Gaming and social media use among adolescents in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Beyond the high: Mapping patterns of use and motives for use of cannabis as medicine	18
Drinking motives and their associations with alcohol use among adolescents in Sweden	18
Women’s views on barriers and facilitators for seeking alcohol and drug treatment in Belgium	18
Problematic internet use: A scoping review – longitudinal research on a contemporary social problem, 2006–2017	13
Trends in older adults’ alcohol use in Norway 1985–2019	13
On the efficiency of Nordic state-controlled gambling companies	12
Who is the typical psychedelics user? Methodological challenges for research in psychedelics use and its consequences	11
Knowledge, attitudes and practice of self-medication among university students in Portugal: A cross-sectional study	11
Alcohol use among older adults: A comparative study across four European countries	11
Perceived social stigmatisation of gambling disorders and coping with stigma	10
A conceptual framework for assessing the public health effects from snus and novel non-combustible nicotine products	9
Treatment and help services for gambling during COVID-19: Experiences of gamblers and their concerned significant others	8
Educational attainment by children with parental alcohol problems in Denmark and Finland	8
“It’s like being stuck on an unsafe and unpredictable rollercoaster”: Experiencing substance use problems in a partner	8
Trends in older people’s drinking habits, Sweden 2004–2017	8
Snus and snus-like nicotine products moving across Nordic borders: Can laws protect young people?	8
Helicopter parenting and alcohol use in adolescence: A quadratic relation	8
Professional helpers' experiences of assisting the bereaved after drug-related deaths: A knowledge gap	8
Exclusion of the non-English-speaking world from the scientific literature: Recommendations for change for addiction journals and publishers	7
Maternal alcohol intakes before and during pregnancy: Impact on the mother and infant outcome to 18 months	7
Risk of problem gambling among occupational groups: A population and registry study	7
Beer drinking, resistance and the politics of alcohol tax levy in Botswana	7
Substance use disorder patients’ expectations on transition from treatment to post-discharge period	6
Could 30 years of political controversy on needle exchange programmes in Sweden contribute to scaling-up harm reduction services in the world?	6

Alcoholic beverage preferences among teenagers in Finland before and after the 2018 alcohol law change	6
The importance of alcohol in elderly's hospital admissions for fall injuries: a population case-control study	6
Let’s talk about sex: Discourses on sexual relations, sugar dating and “prostitution-like” behaviour in drug treatment for young people	6
Comparing older people’s drinking habits in four Nordic countries: Summary of the thematic issue	6
Observational learning of the televised consequences of drinking alcohol: Exploring the role of perceived similarity	5
“He is lovely and awful”: The challenges of being close to an individual with alcohol problems	5
Alcohol taxation, alcohol consumption and cancers in Lithuania: A case study	5
Are changes in parenting related to the decline in youth drinking? Evidence from a comparison of Sweden and Denmark	5
Policy windows for drug consumption rooms in Finland	5
Risk factors for substance use in Swedish adolescents: A study across substances and time points	5
The Finnish Drinking Habits Survey: Implications for alcohol policy and prevention	5
Thinking in a foreign tongue: The problem of English language dominance in social research	4
Adapting existing behaviour: Perceptions of substance switching and implementation of minimum pricing for alcohol in Wales	4
Situated drinking: The association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain	4
Problem mobile gaming: The role of mobile gaming habits, context, and platform	4
The gendered relationship with drunkenness among different generations in Mediterranean and Nordic countries	4
Recovery processes among young adults treated for alcohol and other drug problems: A five-year follow-up	4
The critical role of peer reviewers: Challenges and future steps	4
«Jeg får et helt annet innblikk»: Fagpersoners erfaringer med familieorientert praksis i rusbehandling	4
Changes in alcohol purchases from grocery stores after authorising the sale of stronger beverages: The case of the Finnish alcohol legislation reform in 2018	4
Change and continuity in Finnish drinking in the 21st century	4
Problematic familial alcohol use and adolescent outcomes: Do associations differ by parental education?	4
Gambling harms caused by electronic gambling machines should be prevented with state control	4
Public perceptions of how alcohol consumption is dealt with in Swedish and Norwegian health care	4
Sales of cigarettes to pseudo-underage mystery shoppers: Experiences from Stockholm County	4
Overview: Exploring the onto-politics of cannabis	4
The construction of meaning in alcohol addiction: A narrative study of socially excluded people’s stories about alcohol	4
Traumatic experiences and PTSD symptoms in substance use disorder: A comparison of recovered versus current users	4
The Norwegian remote intervention programme for problem gambling: Short- and long-term outcomes	4
Trends in alcohol consumption among older adults in Denmark in the 21st century	3
Advice to policy-makers for improving services to the drug-death bereaved	3
Distribution of sickness absence risk across different levels and patterns of drinking: findings from the Stockholm Public Health Cohort	3
User involvement in interprofessional team meetings within services for substance use disorders	3
Needs for help and received help for those bereaved by a drug-related death: a cross-sectional study	3
Former inpatients’ narratives of substance use four years after substance use disorder treatment: A qualitative follow-up study	3
Opioid maintenance treatment of pregnant women in the Scandinavian countries	3
Why treatment is not an option: Treatment naïve individuals, suffering from alcohol use disorders’ narratives about alcohol use and treatment seeking	3
Defining “the marijuana problem”: An Analysis of the Polish daily press, 2015–2016	3
Citizenship matters: Translating and adapting the Citizenship Measure to Norwegian	3
Health professionals’ experience of nursing home residents’ consumption of alcohol and use of psychotropic drugs	3
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on services for substance use in Denmark: Implications for meeting users’ needs and recommendations for the future	3
Parents' experiences of substance use problems, parenthood, and recovery within the 12-step movement	3
Comparison of data sources on alcohol problems: An exploratory exercise using surveys vs. national healthcare registers	3
Childhood with a relative's excessive alcohol use, and own drinking in adult years	3
Changes in clients’ well-being (ORS) and state hope (SHS) during inpatient substance abuse treatment	3
Dilemmas of belonging: Young Muslim women in the Danish youth alcohol culture	3
Who are the young users of tobacco products? Prevalence and characteristics of Danish adolescents who have either smoked cigarettes, used alternative tobacco products, or used both	3
Danish cannabis policy revisited: Multiple framings of cannabis use in policy discourse	3
Mapping, assessing and promoting multiple psychological senses of community (MPSOC) through clinical pathways for treating substance use problems	3
Argumentation in anonymous online discussions about decriminalising cannabis use	2

Improving measurement of harms from others’ drinking: A key informant study on type and severity of harm	2
Trust and collaboration between patients and staff in SUD treatment: A qualitative study of patients’ reflections on inpatient SUD treatment four years after discharge	2
The effect of employment support integrated in substance use treatment: A health economic cost-effectiveness simulation of three different interventions	2
Smoking, hazardous drinking and individual differences in cost and gain discounting	2
Influencing adolescents’ attitudes towards nicotine products: A systematic review	2
Hazardous alcohol use among Danish adolescents during the second wave of COVID-19: Link between alcohol use and social life	2
Cannabis use and associated factors among 15–16-year-old adolescents in Estonia 2003–2019: Results from cross-sectional ESPAD surveys	2
A survey of international addiction researchers’ views on implications of brain-based explanations of addiction and the responsibility of affected persons	2
The role of occupational therapy in substance use	2
Successes and failures in treatment of substance abuse: Treatment system perspectives and lessons from the European continent	2
Health services in Nordic welfare states: Introducing a new category of providers through the Norwegian free treatment choice reform	2
Levels of mental distress over 18 years after entering treatment for substance use disorders: A longitudinal cohort study	2
Opinions on alcohol policy in Sweden	2
A transition of power in opioid substitution treatment: Clinic managers' views on the consequences of a patient choice reform	2
Nonmedical use of prescription drugs: A comparison between intoxication-oriented and other nonmedical users	2
Ordinary people, criminals, addicts and recreational users: Swedish court of law descriptions of persons sentenced for online drug purchases	2
Between facts and ambiguity: Discourses on medical cannabis in Swedish newspapers	2
Gambling policy positions of Finnish newspapers between 2004 and 2020: An automated content analysis	2
Drinking patterns among Finns aged 60 years and over from the 1990s onwards	2
Do adverse experiences predict unemployment and need of psychiatric help after treatment for drug use disorders?	2
Twitter activity surrounding the Finnish green party's cannabis legalisation proposal: A mixed-methods analysis	2
Youth's personal relationships, psychological symptoms, and the use of different substances: A population-based study	2
The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on where tobacco users purchased cigarettes and snus in different Norwegian regions	2
Introduction to the special section on drinking patterns in older age	2
Criminal thinking and psychosocial characteristics among young adults entering residential substance use treatment	2
Analysis of illicit stimulant use triangulating wastewater, general population survey and web survey data	2
A measure of alcohol affordability for Sweden: Capturing trends among different demographic groups	2