Jade Boyd

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Jade Boyd is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Jade Boyd has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Epidemiology, 46 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 29 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Jade Boyd's work include HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (55 papers), Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (45 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (25 papers). Jade Boyd is often cited by papers focused on HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (55 papers), Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (45 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (25 papers). Jade Boyd collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Jade Boyd's co-authors include Ryan McNeil, Thomas Kerr, Alexandra B. Collins, Samara Mayer, Geoff Bardwell, Andrew Ivsins, Hannah L. F. Cooper, Taylor Fleming, Mary Clare Kennedy and Leo Beletsky and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Public Health and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Jade Boyd

71 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Tackling the overdose crisis: The role of safe supply

2020 159 citations Andrew Ivsins, Jade Boyd et al. International Journal of Drug Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jade Boyd Canada	29	1.6k	1.4k	769	440	277	75	2.4k
Dan Werb Canada	26	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	407 0.5×	441 1.0×	349 1.3×	126	2.6k
Alexandra B. Collins United States	22	941 0.6×	751 0.5×	501 0.7×	262 0.6×	106 0.4×	61	1.4k
Kora DeBeck Canada	31	2.6k 1.6×	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.4×	632 1.4×	335 1.2×	202	3.6k
Patricia Case United States	29	1.6k 1.0×	972 0.7×	434 0.6×	768 1.7×	121 0.4×	73	2.5k
Crystal M. Fuller United States	27	1.6k 1.0×	693 0.5×	631 0.8×	397 0.9×	104 0.4×	70	2.2k
Ryan McNeil Canada	41	3.1k 1.9×	2.8k 2.0×	1.7k 2.2×	698 1.6×	454 1.6×	132	4.7k
Lawrence J. Ouellet United States	34	2.3k 1.4×	774 0.6×	784 1.0×	596 1.4×	98 0.4×	74	3.0k
Carrie B. Oser United States	32	1.5k 0.9×	972 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	924 2.1×	67 0.2×	164	3.3k
Heino Stöver Germany	25	1.5k 0.9×	620 0.5×	395 0.5×	643 1.5×	71 0.3×	151	2.1k
Patricia M. Spittal Canada	32	3.0k 1.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	997 2.3×	162 0.6×	94	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jade Boyd

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jade Boyd

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jade Boyd

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bonn, Matthew, et al.. (2025). “The people who depended on us became expendable”: Experiences of frontline workers with lived and living expertise of drug use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Harm Reduction Journal. 22(1). 80–80.

Bonn, Matthew, Thomas A. Kerr, Jade Boyd, et al.. (2025). A qualitative study exploring motives for the transition from injecting to smoking drugs in Vancouver, British Columbia. International Journal of Drug Policy. 145. 104982–104982.

Fleming, Taylor, Jade Boyd, Marilou Gagnon, Thomas Kerr, & Ryan McNeil. (2024). Using drugs alone in single room occupancy housing: Understanding environmental drivers of overdose risk. International Journal of Drug Policy. 128. 104444–104444. 6 indexed citations

McNeil, Ryan, et al.. (2024). ‘It just doesn't stop’: Perspectives of women who use drugs on increased overdoses during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Drug and Alcohol Review. 44(2). 602–612. 1 indexed citations

Fleming, Taylor, Alexandra B. Collins, Jade Boyd, Kelly R. Knight, & Ryan McNeil. (2023). “It's no foundation, there's no stabilization, you're just scattered”: A qualitative study of the institutional circuit of recently-evicted people who use drugs. Social Science & Medicine. 324. 115886–115886. 14 indexed citations

Olding, Michelle, Jade Boyd, Thomas Kerr, & Ryan McNeil. (2023). “We just don’t have the space for it”: Geographies of survival and spatial triage in overdose prevention sites. Health & Place. 83. 103067–103067. 7 indexed citations

Collins, Alexandra B., et al.. (2023). Women who use drugs: engagement in practices of harm reduction care. Harm Reduction Journal. 20(1). 49–49. 13 indexed citations

Mayer, Samara, et al.. (2023). Women's experiences in injectable opioid agonist treatment programs in Vancouver, Canada. International Journal of Drug Policy. 117. 104054–104054. 8 indexed citations

Mayer, Samara, et al.. (2023). Emergency department experiences of people who use drugs who left or were discharged from hospital against medical advice. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0282215–e0282215. 23 indexed citations

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Valleriani, Jenna, et al.. (2022). Beyond co-production: The construction of drug checking knowledge in a Canadian supervised injection facility. Social Science & Medicine. 314. 115229–115229. 13 indexed citations

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Fleming, Taylor, Alexandra B. Collins, Geoff Bardwell, et al.. (2021). A qualitative investigation of HIV treatment dispensing models and impacts on adherence among people living with HIV who use drugs. PLoS ONE. 16(2). e0246999–e0246999. 4 indexed citations

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McNeil, Ryan, et al.. (2021). Navigating post-eviction drug use amidst a changing drug supply: A spatially-oriented qualitative study of overlapping housing and overdose crises in Vancouver, Canada. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 222. 108666–108666. 12 indexed citations

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Olding, Michelle, et al.. (2021). “They went down that road, and they get it”: A qualitative study of peer support worker roles within perinatal substance use programs. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 132. 108578–108578. 21 indexed citations

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Fleming, Taylor, Alexandra B. Collins, Geoff Bardwell, et al.. (2020). Home and health among people living with HIV who use drugs: A qualitative study. International Journal of Drug Policy. 80. 102729–102729. 5 indexed citations

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Ivsins, Andrew, Jade Boyd, Leo Beletsky, & Ryan McNeil. (2020). Tackling the overdose crisis: The role of safe supply. International Journal of Drug Policy. 80. 102769–102769. 159 indexed citations breakdown →

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Collins, Alexandra B., Jade Boyd, Samara Mayer, et al.. (2019). Policing space in the overdose crisis: A rapid ethnographic study of the impact of law enforcement practices on the effectiveness of overdose prevention sites. International Journal of Drug Policy. 73. 199–207. 91 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Mary Clare, Jade Boyd, Samara Mayer, et al.. (2019). Peer worker involvement in low-threshold supervised consumption facilities in the context of an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada. Social Science & Medicine. 225. 60–68. 123 indexed citations

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Boyd, Jade, et al.. (2018). Transitions in income generation among marginalized people who use drugs: A qualitative study on recycling and vulnerability to violence. International Journal of Drug Policy. 59. 36–43. 28 indexed citations

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Bardwell, Geoff, Jade Boyd, Thomas Kerr, & Ryan McNeil. (2018). Negotiating space & drug use in emergency shelters with peer witness injection programs within the context of an overdose crisis: A qualitative study. Health & Place. 53. 86–93. 62 indexed citations

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Boyd, Jade & Thomas Kerr. (2015). Policing ‘Vancouver’s mental health crisis’: a critical discourse analysis. Critical Public Health. 26(4). 418–433. 40 indexed citations

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