Robin Room

81.4k total citations · 11 hit papers
541 papers, 24.2k citations indexed

About

Robin Room is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Robin Room has authored 541 papers receiving a total of 24.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 360 papers in Epidemiology, 197 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 158 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Robin Room's work include Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (342 papers), Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (196 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (95 papers). Robin Room is often cited by papers focused on Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (342 papers), Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (196 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (95 papers). Robin Room collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Sweden and United States. Robin Room's co-authors include Jürgen Rehm, Thomas F. Babor, Kathryn Graham, Michael Livingston, Gerhard Gmel, Ingeborg Rossow, Thomas K. Greenfield, Norman Giesbrecht, Maristela Monteiro and Sally Casswell 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

Robin Room

513 papers receiving 22.1k citations

Hit Papers

Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity. Research and public policy 2000 2026 2008 2017 2003 2005 2010 2010 2017 400 800 1.2k
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. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity. Research and public policy
    2003 1.4k citations Thomas F. Babor, Sally Casswell et al. profile →
  2. Alcohol and public health
    2005 1.2k citations Robin Room, Thomas F. Babor et al. The Lancet profile →
  3. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity
    2010 925 citations Thomas F. Babor, Sally Casswell et al. profile →
  4. The relation between different dimensions of alcohol consumption and burden of disease: an overview
    2010 856 citations Jürgen Rehm, Kathryn Graham et al. Addiction profile →
  5. The relationship between different dimensions of alcohol use and the burden of disease—an update
    2017 776 citations Jürgen Rehm, Gerhard Gmel et al. Addiction profile →
  6. The relationship of average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking to burden of disease: an overview
    2003 754 citations Robin Room, Kathryn Graham et al. Addiction profile →
  7. INTERNATIONAL GUIDE FOR MONITORING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND RELATED HARM
    2000 608 citations Robin Room et al. profile →
  8. Stigma, social inequality and alcohol and drug use
    2005 592 citations Robin Room Drug and Alcohol Review profile →
  9. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity
    2003 568 citations Thomas F. Babor, Sally Casswell et al. profile →
  10. The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together
    2010 364 citations Robin Room, Thomas K. Greenfield et al. profile →
  11. Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines: A Comprehensive Update of Evidence and Recommendations
    2017 301 citations Benedikt Fischer, Cayley Russell et al. American Journal of Public Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robin Room Australia 72 15.3k 8.4k 8.2k 3.5k 2.5k 541 24.2k
Gerhard Gmel Switzerland 63 10.1k 0.7× 4.9k 0.6× 5.7k 0.7× 3.2k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 370 17.0k
Thomas F. Babor United States 70 19.9k 1.3× 11.3k 1.4× 7.6k 0.9× 9.2k 2.7× 3.9k 1.6× 295 37.2k
Henry Wechsler United States 72 12.1k 0.8× 6.3k 0.7× 4.7k 0.6× 4.3k 1.2× 2.6k 1.0× 179 22.1k
Kate B. Carey United States 85 11.9k 0.8× 10.1k 1.2× 2.2k 0.3× 6.7k 1.9× 1.5k 0.6× 478 25.8k
Tim Stockwell Canada 63 8.3k 0.5× 4.1k 0.5× 4.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.5× 1.9k 0.7× 356 13.6k
Raúl Caetano United States 70 8.0k 0.5× 6.8k 0.8× 3.8k 0.5× 5.0k 1.4× 1.2k 0.5× 346 17.9k
Mary E. Larimer United States 71 10.2k 0.7× 5.2k 0.6× 2.4k 0.3× 5.9k 1.7× 834 0.3× 287 18.2k
John E. Schulenberg United States 76 8.0k 0.5× 5.4k 0.6× 1.6k 0.2× 5.9k 1.7× 2.2k 0.9× 310 21.2k
Patrick M. O’Malley United States 97 10.5k 0.7× 6.9k 0.8× 1.9k 0.2× 6.3k 1.8× 4.7k 1.9× 332 28.6k
Lloyd D. Johnston United States 84 8.7k 0.6× 5.9k 0.7× 1.6k 0.2× 5.2k 1.5× 4.4k 1.8× 292 23.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Robin Room

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robin Room

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robin Room

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robin Room. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robin Room 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 Robin Room. Robin Room 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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Room, Robin. (2025). Long waves of alcohol consumption and the sustainable development goals. International Journal of Drug Policy. 136. 104703–104703.
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Room, Robin, et al.. (2023). Shifts in the Australian public's opinions towards alcohol policies: 2004–2019. Drug and Alcohol Review. 42(7). 1785–1795. 2 indexed citations
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Room, Robin, et al.. (2023). The effects of alcohol tax policies on alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorders in Mainland of China: an interrupted time series analysis from 1961–2019. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 49(6). 746–755. 3 indexed citations
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Greenfield, Thomas K., Camillia K. Lui, Won Kim Cook, et al.. (2023). High Intensity Drinking (HID) Assessed by Maximum Quantity Consumed Is an Important Pattern Measure Adding Predictive Value in Higher and Lower Income Societies for Modeling Alcohol-Related Problems. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 3748–3748. 1 indexed citations
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Babor, Thomas F., Sally Casswell, Kathryn Graham, et al.. (2022). Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity. 63 indexed citations
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Caluzzi, Gabriel, Amy Pennay, Anne‐Marie Laslett, et al.. (2021). Beyond ‘drinking occasions’: Examining complex changes in drinking practices during COVID‐19. Drug and Alcohol Review. 41(6). 1267–1274. 23 indexed citations
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Tran, Alexander, Huan Jiang, Shannon Lange, et al.. (2021). The Impact of Increasing the Minimum Legal Drinking Age from 18 to 20 Years in Lithuania on All-Cause Mortality in Young Adults—An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 57(4). 513–519. 3 indexed citations
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Rehm, Jürgen, Sally Casswell, Jakob Manthey, Robin Room, & Kevin D. Shield. (2020). Reducing the Harmful Use of Alcohol: Have International Targets Been Met?. European Journal of Risk Regulation. 12(2). 530–541. 11 indexed citations
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Room, Robin, Thomas K. Greenfield, John Holmes, et al.. (2019). Supranational changes in drinking patterns: factors in explanatory models of substantial and parallel social change. Addiction Research & Theory. 28(6). 467–473. 41 indexed citations
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Wright, Cassandra, Paul Dietze, Emmanuel Kuntsche, et al.. (2019). Effectiveness of an Ecological Momentary Intervention for Reducing Risky Alcohol Consumption Among Young Adults: Protocol for a Three-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 9(3). e14190–e14190. 5 indexed citations
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Laslett, Anne‐Marie, Oliver Stanesby, Kathryn Graham, et al.. (2019). Children’s experience of physical harms and exposure to family violence from others’ drinking in nine societies. Addiction Research & Theory. 28(4). 354–364. 16 indexed citations
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Callinan, Sarah, Robin Room, Oliver Stanesby, et al.. (2018). Harms from a partner’s drinking: an international study on adverse effects and reduced quality of life for women. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 45(2). 170–178. 16 indexed citations
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Fischer, Benedikt, Cayley Russell, Pamela Sabioni, et al.. (2017). Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines: A Comprehensive Update of Evidence and Recommendations. American Journal of Public Health. 107(8). e1–e12. 301 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rehm, Jürgen, Benjamin J. Taylor, & Robin Room. (2006). Global burden of disease from alcohol, illicit drugs and tobacco. Drug and Alcohol Review. 25(6). 503–513. 261 indexed citations
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Rehm, Jürgen, Thomas F. Babor, & Robin Room. (2006). Education, persuasion and the reduction of alcohol-related harm: a reply to Craplet. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 101(3). 452–453. 4 indexed citations
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Rehm, Jürgen, Robin Room, Maristela Monteiro, et al.. (2003). The Global Distribution of Average Volume of Alcohol Consumption and Patterns of Drinking. European Addiction Research. 9(4). 147–156. 354 indexed citations
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Room, Robin. (2000). Measuring drinking patterns: the experience of the last half century. Journal of Substance Abuse. 12(1-2). 23–31. 32 indexed citations
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Üstün, T. Bedirhan, Jürgen Rehm, Shekhar Saxena, et al.. (1999). Multiple-informant ranking of the disabling effects of different health conditions in 14 countries. The Lancet. 354(9173). 111–115. 156 indexed citations
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Weisner, Constance, Thomas K. Greenfield, & Robin Room. (1995). Trends in the treatment of alcohol problems in the US general population, 1979 through 1990.. American Journal of Public Health. 85(1). 55–60. 139 indexed citations

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