top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Substance Abuse

2025 single-year list · 389 listed authors · Public Health & Health Services

389 researchers whose main subfield is Substance Abuse, part of Public Health & Health Services, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 18,209 Scopus authors in the subfield. Authors qualify by ranking in the top 2% of their main subfield or in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c); 204 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
389
2.14% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
18,209
Median citations
22
top 1% from 928 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#139
Griffiths, Mark D.

Top countries

  1. United States24864%
  2. Australia5013%
  3. United Kingdom338%
  4. Canada236%
  5. Norway41%
  6. Netherlands41%
  7. Sweden31%
  8. New Zealand31%
  9. Germany31%
  10. Ireland21%

Top institutions

  1. Yale School of Medicine103%
  2. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre72%
  3. The University of Queensland72%
  4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor72%
  5. University of Washington62%
  6. RAND Corporation62%
  7. King's College London51%
  8. La Trobe University51%
  9. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine51%
  10. University of Toronto41%

389 listed scientists in Substance Abuse

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