Heather Palis

850 total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 504 citations indexed

About

Heather Palis is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Palis has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 504 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 18 papers in Epidemiology and 12 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Heather Palis's work include Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (34 papers), Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (12 papers) and Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects (10 papers). Heather Palis is often cited by papers focused on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (34 papers), Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (12 papers) and Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects (10 papers). Heather Palis collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Heather Palis's co-authors include Eugenia Oviedo‐Joekes, Amanda Slaunwhite, Kirsten Marchand, Martin T. Schechter, Scott Harrison, Kurt Lock, Scott Macdonald, Jane A. Buxton, David C. Marsh and Daphne Guh and has published in prestigious journals such as BMJ, BMC Public Health and BMC Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Heather Palis

42 papers receiving 496 citations

Hit Papers

Effect of Risk Mitigation Guidance for opioid and stimula... 2024 2026 2025 2024 10 20 30 40
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. Effect of Risk Mitigation Guidance for opioid and stimulant dispensations on mortality and acute care visits during dual public health emergencies: retrospective cohort study
    2024 45 citations Amanda Slaunwhite, Jeong Eun Min et al. BMJ profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heather Palis Canada 13 360 247 99 76 58 45 504
Kurt Lock Canada 13 451 1.3× 327 1.3× 80 0.8× 89 1.2× 74 1.3× 31 541
Megan Buresh United States 12 314 0.9× 240 1.0× 55 0.6× 69 0.9× 61 1.1× 37 484
Nicola Metrebian United Kingdom 11 479 1.3× 492 2.0× 90 0.9× 90 1.2× 78 1.3× 32 734
Ximena A. Levander United States 11 307 0.9× 202 0.8× 60 0.6× 49 0.6× 34 0.6× 35 539
Hannah Snyder United States 13 354 1.0× 246 1.0× 75 0.8× 78 1.0× 24 0.4× 21 443
Raimondo Maria Pavarin Italy 11 381 1.1× 363 1.5× 76 0.8× 89 1.2× 67 1.2× 51 624
Michelle L. Nolan United States 10 308 0.9× 203 0.8× 44 0.4× 79 1.0× 87 1.5× 22 412
Brodie Clark Australia 4 423 1.2× 314 1.3× 38 0.4× 114 1.5× 50 0.9× 4 532
Lauren Gorfinkel United States 12 290 0.8× 203 0.8× 67 0.7× 90 1.2× 30 0.5× 21 470
Marie-Ève Goyer Canada 6 399 1.1× 269 1.1× 56 0.6× 109 1.4× 37 0.6× 11 451

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Palis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Palis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Palis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heather Palis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heather Palis 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 Heather Palis. Heather Palis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rehm, Jürgen, Farihah Ali, Cayley Russell, et al.. (2025). Decriminalization of drug possession in British Columbia and hospitalizations for opioid poisoning. Public Health. 248. 105915–105915.
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Slaunwhite, Amanda, Jeong Eun Min, Heather Palis, et al.. (2024). Effect of Risk Mitigation Guidance for opioid and stimulant dispensations on mortality and acute care visits during dual public health emergencies: retrospective cohort study. BMJ. 384. e076336–e076336. 45 indexed citations breakdown →
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Richardson, Lindsey, C. G. R. Geddes, Heather Palis, Jane A. Buxton, & Amanda Slaunwhite. (2024). An ecological study of the correlation between COVID-19 support payments and overdose events in British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Drug Policy. 126. 104362–104362. 1 indexed citations
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Palis, Heather, Andrew W. Tu, Frank Scheuermeyer, et al.. (2024). Chronic disease diagnoses and health service use among people who died of illicit drug toxicity in British Columbia, Canada. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 479–479. 1 indexed citations
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Palis, Heather, et al.. (2023). Rising rates of infective endocarditis in North America: An urgent need for attention to the rapidly changing unregulated drug supply. International Journal of Drug Policy. 118. 104110–104110. 3 indexed citations
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Palis, Heather & Scott Macdonald. (2023). Incorporating prescription psychostimulants into the continuum of care for people with stimulant use disorder in Canada. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 195(27). E934–E935. 2 indexed citations
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Tobias, Samuel, Heather Palis, Charlene Burmeister, et al.. (2023). Motivators of and barriers to drug checking engagement in British Columbia, Canada: Findings from a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Drug Policy. 123. 104290–104290. 6 indexed citations
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Palis, Heather, et al.. (2023). Overdose deaths and the covid-19 pandemic in british columbia, canada. Population Medicine. 5(Supplement).
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Kuo, Margot, Heather Palis, Bin Zhao, et al.. (2023). Association between toxic drug events and encephalopathy in British Columbia, Canada: a cross-sectional analysis. Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy. 18(1). 42–42. 2 indexed citations
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Palis, Heather, et al.. (2022). Change in Police Attendance at Overdose Events following Implementation of a Police Non-Notification Policy in British Columbia. Advances in Public Health. 2022. 1–5. 4 indexed citations
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Palis, Heather, et al.. (2022). Concurrent use of opioids and stimulants and risk of fatal overdose: A cohort study. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 2084–2084. 37 indexed citations
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Barbic, Skye, Alissa Greer, Jackson Loyal, et al.. (2022). Awareness and knowledge of the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act among people at risk of witnessing an overdose in British Columbia, Canada: a multi-methods cross sectional study. Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy. 17(1). 42–42. 7 indexed citations
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Palis, Heather, et al.. (2022). Intention to seek emergency medical services during community overdose events in British Columbia, Canada: a cross-sectional survey. Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy. 17(1). 56–56. 2 indexed citations
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Gan, Wenqi, Jane A. Buxton, Frank Scheuermeyer, et al.. (2021). Risk of cardiovascular diseases in relation to substance use disorders. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 229(Pt A). 109132–109132. 28 indexed citations
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Palis, Heather, Daphne Guh, Scott Macdonald, et al.. (2020). Longitudinal patterns of cocaine use among patients receiving injectable hydromorphone or diacetylmorphine for the treatment of opioid use disorder: A growth curve modeling approach. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 218. 108333–108333. 3 indexed citations
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Oviedo‐Joekes, Eugenia, Heather Palis, Daphne Guh, et al.. (2019). Adverse Events During Treatment Induction With Injectable Diacetylmorphine and Hydromorphone for Opioid Use Disorder. Journal of Addiction Medicine. 13(5). 354–361. 16 indexed citations
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Oviedo‐Joekes, Eugenia, Heather Palis, Daphne Guh, et al.. (2019). Treatment with injectable hydromorphone: Comparing retention in double blind and open label treatment periods. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 101. 50–54. 25 indexed citations
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Palis, Heather, Kirsten Marchand, Daphne Guh, et al.. (2017). Men’s and women’s response to treatment and perceptions of outcomes in a randomized controlled trial of injectable opioid assisted treatment for severe opioid use disorder. Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy. 12(1). 25–25. 29 indexed citations

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