OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Harm Reduction Journal is 28. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
“It’s like ‘liquid handcuffs”: The effects of take-home dosing policies on Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) patients’ lives	85
Estimation of the global number of e-cigarette users in 2020	81
Ethical and legal issues in psychedelic harm reduction and integration therapy	53
Women and barriers to harm reduction services: a literature review and initial findings from a qualitative study in Barcelona, Spain	52
High concentrations of illicit stimulants and cutting agents cause false positives on fentanyl test strips	44
Xylazine detected in unregulated opioids and drug administration equipment in Toronto, Canada: clinical and social implications	43
Telehealth for opioid use disorder treatment in low-barrier clinic settings: an exploration of clinician and staff perspectives	43
Peer support workers as a bridge: a qualitative study exploring the role of peer support workers in the care of people who use drugs during and after hospitalization	42
A qualitative study on overdose response in the era of COVID-19 and beyond: how to spot someone so they never have to use alone	41
The impact of COVID-19 on people who inject drugs in New York City: increased risk and decreased access to services	40
Implementation of a medical student-run telemedicine program for medications for opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic	40
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on harm reduction services in Spain	39
Smoking prevalence among hospitalized COVID-19 patients and its association with disease severity and mortality: an expanded re-analysis of a recent publication	39
Racial/ethnic disparities in opioid overdose prevention: comparison of the naloxone care cascade in White, Latinx, and Black people who use opioids in New York City	38
Perception of the relative harm of electronic cigarettes compared to cigarettes amongst US adults from 2013 to 2016: analysis of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study data	38
Meeting people where they are: implementing hospital-based substance use harm reduction	38
‘They already operated like it was a crisis, because it always has been a crisis’: a qualitative exploration of the response of one homeless service in Scotland to the COVID-19 pandemic	36
How effective are electronic cigarettes for reducing respiratory and cardiovascular risk in smokers? A systematic review	35
The Bronze Age of drug checking: barriers and facilitators to implementing advanced drug checking amidst police violence and COVID-19	34
Convenience and comfort: reasons reported for using drugs alone among clients of harm reduction sites in British Columbia, Canada	33
Police discretion in encounters with people who use drugs: operationalizing the theory of planned behavior	33
Opioid overdose crises during the COVID-19 pandemic: implication of health disparities	33
Uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among people who inject drugs	32
“Running myself ragged”: stressors faced by peer workers in overdose response settings	31
The health impact of smokeless tobacco products: a systematic review	31

Exploring the use of cannabis as a substitute for prescription drugs in a convenience sample	31
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on illicit drug supply, drug-related behaviour of people who use drugs and provision of drug related services in Georgia: results of a mixed methods prospective coh	30
“They say it’s fentanyl, but they honestly look like Perc 30s”: Initiation and use of counterfeit fentanyl pills	29
Adapting harm reduction services during COVID-19: lessons from the supervised injecting facilities in Australia	28