Marte Handal

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Marte Handal is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Marte Handal has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 41 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 24 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Marte Handal's work include Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (35 papers), Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects (22 papers) and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (19 papers). Marte Handal is often cited by papers focused on Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (35 papers), Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects (22 papers) and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (19 papers). Marte Handal collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Czechia and United States. Marte Handal's co-authors include Svetlana Skurtveit, Randi Selmer, Kari Furu, Gudrun Høiseth, Per Magnus, Kristian Tambs, Camilla Stoltenberg, Kristine Vejrup, A. Haugan and Elin R. Alsaker and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Pain.

In The Last Decade

Marte Handal

91 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Cohort Profile Update: The Norwegian Mother and Child Coh... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 200 400 600
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. Cohort Profile Update: The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)
    2016 609 citations Marte Handal, Gudrun Høiseth et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marte Handal Norway 22 825 741 340 297 200 95 1.9k
Salvatore Gentile Italy 29 1.5k 1.8× 652 0.9× 676 2.0× 657 2.2× 209 1.0× 68 2.3k
Kathleen Peindl United States 26 1.2k 1.5× 297 0.4× 716 2.1× 504 1.7× 247 1.2× 55 2.1k
Birit F. P. Broekman Singapore 26 701 0.8× 612 0.8× 629 1.9× 178 0.6× 150 0.8× 92 1.8k
Jonathan Price United Kingdom 20 799 1.0× 242 0.3× 613 1.8× 653 2.2× 304 1.5× 38 2.1k
Johan Reutfors Sweden 24 535 0.6× 333 0.4× 463 1.4× 762 2.6× 103 0.5× 91 1.9k
Joanne Salas United States 25 611 0.7× 249 0.3× 318 0.9× 157 0.5× 92 0.5× 141 1.9k
Chris Derauf United States 26 595 0.7× 1.3k 1.7× 290 0.9× 121 0.4× 204 1.0× 45 1.8k
Jennifer R. Schroeder United States 24 529 0.6× 391 0.5× 213 0.6× 263 0.9× 54 0.3× 57 1.9k
Vivien K. Burt United States 18 1.0k 1.2× 363 0.5× 427 1.3× 373 1.3× 189 0.9× 40 1.5k
Astrid M. Kamperman Netherlands 26 1.0k 1.2× 294 0.4× 983 2.9× 776 2.6× 193 1.0× 103 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marte Handal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marte Handal

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

All Works

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Skurtveit, Svetlana, et al.. (2025). Trends in opioid prescribing in Scandinavian countries from 2010 to 2023: Insights from multi‐metric evaluation. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 91(12). 3341–3352.
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Odsbu, Ingvild, Aleksi Hamina, Vidar Hjellvik, et al.. (2024). Initiation of Antipsychotics During the First Year After First‐Episode Psychosis: A Population‐Based Study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 151(4). 537–547. 1 indexed citations
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Hartz, Ingeborg, et al.. (2024). Nationwide trends in the use of ADHD medications in the period 2006–2022: a study from the Norwegian prescription database. BMC Psychiatry. 24(1). 767–767. 1 indexed citations
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Hamina, Aleksi, Vidar Hjellvik, Marte Handal, et al.. (2022). Describing long‐term opioid use utilizing Nordic prescription registers—A Norwegian example. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology. 130(4). 481–491. 11 indexed citations
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Handal, Marte, Svetlana Skurtveit, Helene Flood Aakvaag, et al.. (2022). Killing pain?: a population-based registry study of the use of prescription analgesics, anxiolytics, and hypnotics among all children, adolescents and young adults in Norway from 2004 to 2019. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 32(11). 2259–2270. 9 indexed citations
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Skurtveit, Svetlana, Ingvild Odsbu, Linn Gjersing, et al.. (2022). Individuals Dying of Overdoses Related to Pharmaceutical Opioids Differ from Individuals Dying of Overdoses Related to Other Substances: A Population-Based Register Study. European Addiction Research. 28(6). 419–424. 14 indexed citations
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Hamina, Aleksi, Ingvild Odsbu, Petter C. Borchgrevink, et al.. (2022). Cohort Description: Preventing an Opioid Epidemic in Norway – Focusing on Treatment of Chronic Pain (POINT) – A National Registry-Based Study. Clinical Epidemiology. Volume 14. 1477–1486. 13 indexed citations
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Gabrhelík, Roman, Marte Handal, Viktor Mravčík, et al.. (2021). Opioid maintenance treatment in the Czech Republic, Norway and Denmark: a study protocol of a comparative registry linkage study. BMJ Open. 11(5). e047028–e047028. 8 indexed citations
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Gabrhelík, Roman, et al.. (2020). Prenatal Methamphetamine Exposure and Adverse Neonatal Outcomes: A Nationwide Cohort Study. European Addiction Research. 27(2). 97–106. 9 indexed citations
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Gabrhelík, Roman, Milada Mahic, Ingunn Olea Lund, et al.. (2020). Cannabis Use during Pregnancy and Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes: A Longitudinal Cohort Study. European Addiction Research. 27(2). 131–141. 37 indexed citations
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Ask, Helga, Marte Handal, Lars Johan Hauge, Ted Reichborn‐Kjennerud, & Svetlana Skurtveit. (2019). Incidence of diagnosed pediatric anxiety disorders and use of prescription drugs: a nation-wide registry study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 29(8). 1063–1073. 10 indexed citations
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Brandlistuen, Ragnhild Eek, Eivind Ystrøm, Sonia Hernández–Dı́az, et al.. (2017). Association of prenatal exposure to benzodiazepines and child internalizing problems: A sibling-controlled cohort study. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0181042–e0181042. 19 indexed citations
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Bramness, Jørgen G., Marte Handal, Leila Torgersen, et al.. (2017). Hypnotics use in children 0–18 months: moderate agreement between mother-reported survey data and prescription registry data. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice. 10(1). 28–28. 2 indexed citations
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Odsbu, Ingvild, Svetlana Skurtveit, Randi Selmer, et al.. (2014). Prenatal exposure to anxiolytics and hypnotics and language competence at 3 years of age. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 71(3). 283–291. 18 indexed citations
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Høiseth, Gudrun, et al.. (2014). Pharmacokinetic interactions between ethanol and heroin: A study on post-mortem cases. Forensic Science International. 242. 127–134. 10 indexed citations
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Skurtveit, Svetlana, Kari Furu, Petter C. Borchgrevink, Marte Handal, & Olav Magnus S. Fredheim. (2011). To what extent does a cohort of new users of weak opioids develop persistent or probable problematic opioid use?. Pain. 152(7). 1555–1561. 36 indexed citations
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Handal, Marte, Anders Engeland, Marit Rønning, Svetlana Skurtveit, & Kari Furu. (2011). Use of prescribed opioid analgesics and co-medication with benzodiazepines in women before, during, and after pregnancy: a population-based cohort study. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 67(9). 953–960. 28 indexed citations
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Handal, Marte, Å. Ripel, Svetlana Skurtveit, & Jørg Mørland. (2008). Behavioural sensitization in mice induced by morphine-glucuronide metabolites. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 90(4). 578–585. 8 indexed citations
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Vindenes, Vigdis, Marte Handal, Å. Ripel, Fernando Boix, & Jørg Mørland. (2006). Conditioned place preference induced by morphine and morphine-6-glucuronide in mice☆. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 85(2). 292–297. 22 indexed citations
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Grung, Merete, et al.. (1998). Morphine‐6‐glucuronide‐Induced Locomotor Stimulation in Mice: Role of Opioid Receptors. Pharmacology & Toxicology. 82(1). 3–10. 19 indexed citations

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