Lisa Maher

15.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
375 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Lisa Maher is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Lisa Maher has authored 375 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 291 papers in Epidemiology, 116 papers in Hepatology and 110 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Lisa Maher's work include HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (235 papers), Hepatitis C virus research (115 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (102 papers). Lisa Maher is often cited by papers focused on HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (235 papers), Hepatitis C virus research (115 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (102 papers). Lisa Maher collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Lisa Maher's co-authors include Jenny Iversen, John Kaldor, Gregory J. Dore, Libby Topp, Kimberly Page, Handan Wand, Kathleen Daly, Jason Grebely, David Dixon and Garrett Prestage and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Lisa Maher

361 papers receiving 10.2k 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. Global burden of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and detainees
    2016 443 citations Lisa Maher, Margaret Hellard et al. profile →
  2. Challenges in maintaining treatment services for people who use drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic
    2020 202 citations Lisa Maher et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Lisa Maher 7.5k 3.1k 2.8k 2.7k 2.2k 375 10.7k
Tim Rhodes 10.3k 1.4× 5.8k 1.9× 1.8k 0.6× 4.1k 1.5× 3.1k 1.4× 264 13.2k
Josiah D. Rich 5.9k 0.8× 2.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.4× 2.1k 0.8× 3.8k 1.7× 320 9.9k
Mark Tyndall 12.6k 1.7× 6.5k 2.1× 2.4k 0.9× 3.4k 1.3× 5.3k 2.4× 263 16.2k
Martin T. Schechter 8.5k 1.1× 5.8k 1.9× 925 0.3× 1.8k 0.7× 4.3k 1.9× 373 15.8k
Holly Hagan 8.2k 1.1× 3.8k 1.2× 4.4k 1.6× 1.2k 0.4× 1.9k 0.9× 190 9.7k
Peter Vickerman 11.4k 1.5× 5.5k 1.8× 5.6k 2.0× 1.9k 0.7× 2.8k 1.3× 394 14.6k
Frederick L. Altice 10.4k 1.4× 9.4k 3.1× 1.2k 0.4× 3.0k 1.1× 3.3k 1.5× 463 15.5k
Samuel R. Friedman 14.0k 1.9× 9.6k 3.1× 1.6k 0.6× 4.0k 1.5× 4.1k 1.9× 466 18.5k
Don C. Des Jarlais 16.1k 2.2× 9.8k 3.2× 4.0k 1.4× 3.5k 1.3× 5.0k 2.3× 525 21.6k
Kimberly Page 5.2k 0.7× 3.6k 1.2× 2.2k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 1.0k 0.5× 213 8.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Lisa Maher

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lisa Maher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lisa Maher

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lisa Maher. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lisa Maher 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 Lisa Maher. Lisa Maher 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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Price, Olivia, Lisa Maher, Amy Peacock, et al.. (2025). Changing age profile and incidence of injecting drug use initiation among people in Australia who inject drugs: evidence from two national repeated cross-sectional studies. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 57. 101548–101548.
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Price, Olivia, Paul Dietze, Lisa Maher, et al.. (2024). High COVID-19 vaccine uptake following initial hesitancy among people in Australia who inject drugs. Vaccine. 42(11). 2877–2885.
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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
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Agius, Paul A., Bernadette Ward, Matthew Hickman, et al.. (2023). The impacts of COVID‐19 measures on drug markets and drug use among a cohort of people who use methamphetamine in Victoria, Australia. Addiction. 118(8). 1557–1568. 6 indexed citations
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Price, Olivia, Lisa Maher, Paul Dietze, et al.. (2023). COVID‐19 vaccine attitudes and facilitators among people in Australia who inject drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review. 42(5). 1066–1077. 2 indexed citations
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Hill, Penny, Mark Stoové, Paul A. Agius, et al.. (2022). Mortality in the SuperMIX cohort of people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia: a prospective observational study. Addiction. 117(12). 3091–3098. 4 indexed citations
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Price, Olivia, Paul Dietze, Lisa Maher, Sione Crawford, & Amy Peacock. (2022). COVID‐19 vaccine acceptability among people in Australia who inject drugs: Update from the 2021 Illicit Drug Reporting System interviews. Drug and Alcohol Review. 41(5). 1025–1028. 8 indexed citations
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Caruana, Theresa, et al.. (2022). Injection drug use in an affluent beachside community in Sydney: An exploratory qualitative study. Drug and Alcohol Review. 42(3). 544–554. 2 indexed citations
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Iversen, Jenny, Keith Sabin, Judy Chang, et al.. (2020). COVID‐19, HIV and key populations: cross‐cutting issues and the need for population‐specific responses. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 23(10). e25632–e25632. 60 indexed citations
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White, Bethany, et al.. (2019). Engaging people who inject drugs in hepatitis C virus testing and prevention through community‐based outreach, in Sydney, Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review. 38(2). 177–184. 10 indexed citations
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Sweeney, Sedona, Zoë Ward, Lucy Platt, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the cost‐effectiveness of existing needle and syringe programmes in preventing hepatitis C transmission in people who inject drugs. Addiction. 114(3). 560–570. 22 indexed citations
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Lea, Toby, Mohamed Hammoud, Adam Bourne, et al.. (2019). Attitudes and Perceived Social Norms toward Drug Use among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia. Substance Use & Misuse. 54(6). 944–954. 21 indexed citations
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Draughon, Jessica E., Adam W. Carrico, Jennifer L. Evans, et al.. (2016). The impact of violence on sex risk and drug use behaviors among women engaged in sex work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 161. 171–177. 36 indexed citations
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Mooney‐Somers, Julie, et al.. (2010). Learning from the past: young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives. Culture Health & Sexuality. 13(2). 173–186. 21 indexed citations
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Higgs, Peter, Kei Owada, Margaret Hellard, Robert Power, & Lisa Maher. (2008). Gender, culture and harm: an exploratory study of female heroin users of Vietnamese ethnicity. Culture Health & Sexuality. 10(7). 681–695. 20 indexed citations
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Maher, Lisa, David Dixon, Michael T. Lynskey, & Wayne Hall. (1998). Running the risks: heroin, health and harm in South West Sydney. Peptides. 38. 1–140. 68 indexed citations

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