OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A place of encounter: Health and social care workers’ perspectives on public gathering spaces for people using drugs	41
Exploring the onto-politics of cannabis: Shifting drug policies and understandings in Norway	22
Hazardous alcohol use among Danish adolescents during the second wave of COVID-19: Link between alcohol use and social life	14
The importance of debunking constructions	13
Problematic gambling in municipal social work in Tampere, Finland: Social workers’ perceptions of service pathways before the casino opening and the health and social services reform	12
Between acute medicine and municipal alcohol treatment: Cross-sectoral collaborations regarding patients with alcohol problems	10
Children’s out-of-home placements: Associations with parental substance use and neighbourhood sociodemographics	10
Do adverse experiences predict unemployment and need of psychiatric help after treatment for drug use disorders?	9
Illicit drug use at licensed premises and the potential for prevention: A qualitative interview study of stakeholders	9
Let’s talk about sex: Discourses on sexual relations, sugar dating and “prostitution-like” behaviour in drug treatment for young people	9
Professional helpers' experiences of assisting the bereaved after drug-related deaths: A knowledge gap	9
A survey of international addiction researchers’ views on implications of brain-based explanations of addiction and the responsibility of affected persons	8
Science, DEI and expanded thinking	8
Affiliation to the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) community: A qualitative study on differences between highly affiliated and low/non-affiliated individuals	8
On the biopolitics of humane drug policies: What can we learn from 19th century sobriety boards?	8
Psychometric evaluation of a Swedish version of the Impaired Control Scale for individuals with alcohol use disorder	7
Drug control and human rights in the Russian Federation	7
A conceptual framework for assessing the public health effects from snus and novel non-combustible nicotine products	7
From existing to living: Exploring the meaning of recovery and a sober life after a long duration of a substance use disorder	6
Needs for help and received help for those bereaved by a drug-related death: a cross-sectional study	6
Twitter activity surrounding the Finnish green party's cannabis legalisation proposal: A mixed-methods analysis	6
Danish cannabis policy revisited: Multiple framings of cannabis use in policy discourse	6
Yet another alcohol policy experiment in Finland	6
Positiva upplevelser av dopning: En kvalitativ studie av AAS-bruk och reflexiva kroppar [Positive experiences of doping: A qualitative study of AAS-use and reflexive bodies]	5
Alcohol purchases through online stores and mobile applications in the late phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland	5

Justice and equality as a zero-sum game	5
The effect of employment support integrated in substance use treatment: A health economic cost-effectiveness simulation of three different interventions	5
Helicopter parenting and alcohol use in adolescence: A quadratic relation	5
Interagency collaboration: Complex yet crucial	5
Exclusion of the non-English-speaking world from the scientific literature: Recommendations for change for addiction journals and publishers	5
Consumption trends and policies under scrutinisation	4
New divides and alienation	4
Digital screens and children	4
Policy windows for drug consumption rooms in Finland	4
Corrigendum to Validation of the Nurses’ Skills to Care for Alcohol-Intoxicated Patients in Emergency Department (NSCAIP-ED) Instrument. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Epub ahead of print 10 Au	4
Advice to policy-makers for improving services to the drug-death bereaved	4
Bridging academia and Nordic Societies	4
Characteristics of people who have received treatment for late-onset problem drinking and alcohol use disorder: A systematic review and narrative synthesis	4
“It's nice to just be”: A qualitative study on the meaning-imbued reality of waterpipe smoking among young adults in Sweden	4
New work on the brain and addiction	4
Changes in the trajectories of drug-free friendships and substance use among a cohort of individuals with multiple substance use disorders	3
Increased alcohol use to cope with COVID-19-related anxiety one year into the coronavirus pandemic	3
Gender- and age-stratified analyses of gambling disorder in Finland between 2011 and 2020 based on administrative registers	3
A clarion call to the addiction science community: It's time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration	3
A qualitative study of a recovery capital assessment tool in alcohol and drug treatment facilities: Perspectives from social work professionals	3
Gambling harms caused by electronic gambling machines should be prevented with state control	3
The elephant in the room: Metaphors in women's accounts of life with a family member with problematic substance use	3
Celebrating 40 years of Nordic collaboration	3
Criminal thinking and psychosocial characteristics among young adults entering residential substance use treatment	3
School collective efficacy and gambling: A multilevel study of 11th grade students in Stockholm	3
Performing normality in working life among heavy substance users	3
Student drinking cultures in tertiary education residential accommodation: A contextual research study	3
Caring for elderly substance users: Challenges, dilemmas and recommendations	3
North America's fentanyl death crisis: Selected lessons for Europe's future?	3
Gender dynamics in drug-using contexts: Implication for treatment and support	3
Why are the police against drug policy liberalisation?	3