Fernando Montero

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 833 citations indexed

About

Fernando Montero is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Toxicology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Montero has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 833 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 8 papers in Toxicology and 6 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Fernando Montero's work include Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (9 papers), Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (8 papers) and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 papers). Fernando Montero is often cited by papers focused on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (9 papers), Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (8 papers) and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 papers). Fernando Montero collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Fernando Montero's co-authors include Philippe Bourgois, George Karandinos, Daniel Ciccarone, Sarah G. Mars, Joseph Friedman, Rafik Wahbi, Daniel W. Dye, Chelsea L. Shover, David Goodman‐Meza and Laurie Kain Hart and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Montero

12 papers receiving 804 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Xylazine spreads across the US: A growing component of the increasingly synthetic and polysubstance overdose crisis
    2022 224 citations Joseph Friedman, Fernando Montero et al. Drug and Alcohol Dependence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fernando Montero United States 10 537 373 204 163 135 14 833
R. Matt Gladden United States 10 602 1.1× 337 0.9× 208 1.0× 25 0.2× 135 1.0× 12 821
Jennifer Carroll United States 18 810 1.5× 627 1.7× 229 1.1× 21 0.1× 116 0.9× 71 1.1k
Lia Pizzicato United States 9 255 0.5× 180 0.5× 60 0.3× 79 0.5× 46 0.3× 19 416
George Karandinos United States 8 395 0.7× 320 0.9× 107 0.5× 16 0.1× 68 0.5× 16 596
Sarah G. Mars United States 15 1.2k 2.2× 861 2.3× 420 2.1× 28 0.2× 199 1.5× 28 1.5k
Jeanette M. Bowles Canada 11 279 0.5× 211 0.6× 74 0.4× 70 0.4× 47 0.3× 26 401
Megan K. Reed United States 10 198 0.4× 167 0.4× 93 0.5× 71 0.4× 50 0.4× 34 384
Lucas G. Hill United States 16 512 1.0× 287 0.8× 49 0.2× 34 0.2× 115 0.9× 46 653
Jeff Ondocsin United States 8 445 0.8× 303 0.8× 216 1.1× 17 0.1× 60 0.4× 16 512
Sagar Kumar United States 10 208 0.4× 157 0.4× 51 0.3× 64 0.4× 49 0.4× 34 509

Countries citing papers authored by Fernando Montero

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fernando Montero

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fernando Montero. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Fernando Montero. The network helps show where Fernando Montero may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fernando Montero

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fernando Montero. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fernando Montero based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fernando Montero. Fernando Montero is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Hochstatter, Karli R., et al.. (2025). Characterizing rapid changes in the prevalence and concentration of key compounds in Philadelphia’s street opioid retail supply, March 2024-March 2025. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 274. 112763–112763. 2 indexed citations
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Gelberg, Kitty H., Fernando Montero, Mingway Chang, et al.. (2025). Xylazine Test Strip Use Among People Who Use Drugs in New York State. Journal of Addiction Medicine.
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Hart, Laurie Kain, Philippe Bourgois, Fernando Montero, & George Karandinos. (2025). Mothers, sons, sisters and grief in the gangster economy: US necrogovernance in Philadelphia’s low-income Puerto Rican diaspora. International Sociology. 40(3). 364–393.
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Karandinos, George, Jeff Ondocsin, Nicole Holm, et al.. (2024). Decrease in injection and rise in smoking and snorting of heroin and synthetic opioids, 2000–2021. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 263. 111419–111419. 15 indexed citations
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Zhu, David T., Joseph Friedman, Philippe Bourgois, Fernando Montero, & Suzanne Tamang. (2023). The emerging fentanyl–xylazine syndemic in the USA: challenges and future directions. The Lancet. 402(10416). 1949–1952. 21 indexed citations
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Montero, Fernando, Philippe Bourgois, & Joseph Friedman. (2022). Potency-Enhancing Synthetics in the Drug Overdose Epidemic: Xylazine (“Tranq”), Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, and the Displacement of Heroin in Philadelphia and Tijuana. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 204–222. 27 indexed citations
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Friedman, Joseph, Fernando Montero, Rafik Wahbi, et al.. (2022). Xylazine spreads across the US: A growing component of the increasingly synthetic and polysubstance overdose crisis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 233. 109380–109380. 224 indexed citations breakdown →
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Friedman, Joseph, George Karandinos, Laurie Kain Hart, et al.. (2019). Structural vulnerability to narcotics-driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican inner-city. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0225376–e0225376. 25 indexed citations
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Mars, Sarah G., Philippe Bourgois, George Karandinos, Fernando Montero, & Daniel Ciccarone. (2016). The Textures of Heroin: User Perspectives on “Black Tar” and Powder Heroin in Two U.S. Cities. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 48(4). 270–278. 43 indexed citations
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Mars, Sarah G., et al.. (2015). Heroin-related overdose: The unexplored influences of markets, marketing and source-types in the United States. Social Science & Medicine. 140. 44–53. 59 indexed citations
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Karandinos, George, Laurie Kain Hart, Fernando Montero, & Philippe Bourgois. (2013). The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City. Current Anthropology. 55(1). 1–22. 61 indexed citations
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Bourgois, Philippe, Fernando Montero, Laurie Kain Hart, & George Karandinos. (2013). Habitus furibundo en el gueto estadounidense. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 22(2). 201–220. 2 indexed citations
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Mars, Sarah G., Philippe Bourgois, George Karandinos, Fernando Montero, & Daniel Ciccarone. (2013). “Every ‘Never’ I Ever Said Came True”: Transitions from opioid pills to heroin injecting. International Journal of Drug Policy. 25(2). 257–266. 315 indexed citations
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Rosenblum, Daniel, Fernando Montero, Philippe Bourgois, et al.. (2013). Urban segregation and the US heroin market: A quantitative model of anthropological hypotheses from an inner-city drug market. International Journal of Drug Policy. 25(3). 543–555. 39 indexed citations

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