Wayne Hall

102.0k total citations · 24 hit papers
1.1k papers, 47.7k citations indexed

About

Wayne Hall is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Pharmacology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Wayne Hall has authored 1.1k papers receiving a total of 47.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 373 papers in Epidemiology, 282 papers in Pharmacology and 245 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Wayne Hall's work include Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (309 papers), Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (240 papers) and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (175 papers). Wayne Hall is often cited by papers focused on Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (309 papers), Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (240 papers) and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (175 papers). Wayne Hall collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Wayne Hall's co-authors include Louisa Degenhardt, Michael T. Lynskey, Shane Darke, Richard P. Mattick, Julie Hando, Joanne Ross, Nadia Solowij, Gavin Andrews, Coral Gartner and Nick Heather and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wayne Hall

1.0k papers receiving 44.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS): psychometric prop... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1995 2012 2009 2001 2002 250 500 750 1000
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. The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS): psychometric properties of the SDS in English and Australian samples of heroin, cocaine and amphetamine users
    1995 1.1k citations Wayne Hall et al. Addiction profile →
  2. Extent of illicit drug use and dependence, and their contribution to the global burden of disease
    2012 947 citations Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall The Lancet profile →
  3. Adverse health effects of non-medical cannabis use
    2009 839 citations Wayne Hall, Louisa Degenhardt The Lancet profile →
  4. Prevalence, comorbidity, disability and service utilisation
    2001 774 citations Wayne Hall et al. profile →
  5. Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study
    2002 740 citations George Patton, Louisa Degenhardt et al. profile →
  6. Cough and Angioneurotic Edema Associated with Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Therapy
    1992 702 citations Wayne Hall et al. profile →
  7. Global statistics on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use: 2017 status report
    2018 697 citations Amy Peacock, Janni Leung et al. Addiction profile →
  8. Development of a short ‘readiness to change’ questionnaire for use in brief, opportunistic interventions among excessive drinkers
    1992 643 citations Wayne Hall et al. profile →
  9. Global burden of disease attributable to illicit drug use and dependence: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
    2013 623 citations Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall et al. The Lancet profile →
  10. Adverse effects of cannabis
    1998 577 citations Wayne Hall et al. The Lancet profile →
  11. Prognostic value of serum creatinine and effect of treatment of hypertension on renal function. Results from the hypertension detection and follow-up program. The Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program Cooperative Group.
    1989 541 citations Wayne Hall et al. profile →
  12. Development and validation of a multidimensional instrument for assessing outcome of treatment among opiate users: the Opiate Treatment Index
    1992 416 citations Wayne Hall, Jeff Ward et al. profile →
  13. What has research over the past two decades revealed about the adverse health effects of recreational cannabis use?
    2014 411 citations Wayne Hall Addiction profile →
  14. The increasing global health priority of substance use in young people
    2016 387 citations Louisa Degenhardt, George Patton et al. profile →
  15. 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 →
  16. Cannabinoids for the treatment of mental disorders and symptoms of mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    2019 296 citations Gabrielle Campbell, Wayne Hall et al. profile →
  17. Cannabis and cannabinoids for the treatment of people with chronic noncancer pain conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled and observational studies
    2018 293 citations Gabrielle Campbell, Wayne Hall et al. profile →
  18. Prevention, early intervention, harm reduction, and treatment of substance use in young people
    2016 289 citations Wayne Hall, George Patton et al. profile →
  19. Cannabis use and cannabis use disorder
    2021 257 citations Jason P. Connor, Daniel Stjepanović et al. profile →
  20. Public health implications of legalising the production and sale of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use
    2019 232 citations Wayne Hall, Daniel Stjepanović et al. The Lancet profile →
  21. New psychoactive substances: challenges for drug surveillance, control, and public health responses
    2019 216 citations Amy Peacock, Raimondo Bruno et al. The Lancet profile →
  22. What is the prevalence and risk of cannabis use disorders among people who use cannabis? a systematic review and meta-analysis
    2020 195 citations Janni Leung, Gary Chan et al. profile →
  23. Assessing the public health impacts of legalizing recreational cannabis use: the US experience
    2020 194 citations Wayne Hall et al. profile →
  24. Tobacco and nicotine use
    2022 154 citations Bernard Le Foll, Wayne Hall 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
Wayne Hall Australia 108 17.9k 14.7k 9.7k 8.7k 8.2k 1.1k 47.7k
Louisa Degenhardt Australia 102 22.3k 1.2× 9.8k 0.7× 14.1k 1.5× 7.3k 0.8× 9.5k 1.2× 690 47.9k
Deborah S. Hasin United States 111 19.5k 1.1× 10.2k 0.7× 6.5k 0.7× 10.2k 1.2× 18.1k 2.2× 575 50.6k
Jürgen Rehm Canada 116 27.1k 1.5× 5.7k 0.4× 9.4k 1.0× 14.2k 1.6× 8.1k 1.0× 1.1k 58.1k
Bridget F. Grant United States 115 22.1k 1.2× 6.3k 0.4× 5.4k 0.6× 10.5k 1.2× 22.1k 2.7× 362 54.0k
Michael Farrell United Kingdom 91 8.6k 0.5× 3.0k 0.2× 6.1k 0.6× 4.7k 0.5× 6.4k 0.8× 785 29.0k
Hans‐Ulrich Wïttchen Germany 130 6.4k 0.4× 5.8k 0.4× 8.2k 0.8× 7.8k 0.9× 31.6k 3.9× 807 67.4k
Theo Vos Australia 85 6.2k 0.3× 8.4k 0.6× 7.2k 0.7× 8.3k 1.0× 8.9k 1.1× 303 51.0k
Thomas F. Babor United States 70 19.9k 1.1× 2.7k 0.2× 3.9k 0.4× 11.3k 1.3× 9.2k 1.1× 295 37.2k
John Strang United Kingdom 71 11.0k 0.6× 2.4k 0.2× 8.7k 0.9× 3.6k 0.4× 2.9k 0.4× 542 19.8k
Katherine M. Keyes United States 80 7.1k 0.4× 3.8k 0.3× 5.2k 0.5× 5.5k 0.6× 8.0k 1.0× 483 25.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wayne Hall

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wayne Hall

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Talarico, Robert, et al.. (2025). Impact of the first year of British Columbia’s decriminalization of drug possession for personal use on drug crime in Canada. International Journal of Drug Policy. 146. 105042–105042.
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Kerr, Jessica A., Janni Leung, S. Ghazaleh Dashti, et al.. (2025). The natural history of DSM-5 alcohol-use disorder from late adolescence to middle adulthood in Australia: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet Public Health. 10(11). e923–e932.
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Connor, Jason P., Jakob Manthey, Wayne Hall, & Daniel Stjepanović. (2024). Effectiveness of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder interventions: a European and international data synthesis. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 275(2). 327–339. 1 indexed citations
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Chan, Gary, Coral Gartner, Carmen Lim, et al.. (2022). Association between the implementation of tobacco control policies and adolescent vaping in 44 lower‐middle, upper‐middle, and high‐income countries. Addiction. 117(8). 2296–2305. 14 indexed citations
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Leung, Janni, Shannon Gravely, Carmen Lim, Wayne Hall, & Gary Chan. (2022). Age–period–cohort analysis of trends in tobacco smoking, cannabis use, and their co‐use in the Australian population. Addiction. 117(10). 2730–2735. 12 indexed citations
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Leung, Janni, Vivian Chiu, Jason P. Connor, et al.. (2019). Alcohol consumption and consequences in adolescents in 68 low and middle-income countries – a multi-country comparison of risks by sex. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 205. 107520–107520. 21 indexed citations
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Prichard, Jeremy, Foon Yin Lai, Phong K. Thai, et al.. (2017). Wastewater analysis of substance use: Implications for law, policy and research. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 24(4). 837–849. 3 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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Lai, Foon Yin, Jake O’Brien, Phong K. Thai, et al.. (2016). Cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine residues in wastewater: Consumption trends (2009–2015) in South East Queensland, Australia. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Hall, Wayne, et al.. (2013). Case and Comment. Tasmania v Martin (No 2): Voluntariness and Causation for Criminal Offending Associated with Treatment of Parkinson's Disease. SSRN Electronic Journal. 37(5). 330–341. 4 indexed citations
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Hall, Wayne. (2013). Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain 1928–2008, James H Mills. Oxford University Press (2013), 304, £35·00., ISBN: 9780199283422. The Lancet. 1 indexed citations
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Douglas, Heather, et al.. (2012). The Importance of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder for Criminal Law in Practice: Views of Queensland Lawyers. SSRN Electronic Journal. 32(3). 153–164. 6 indexed citations
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Degenhardt, Louisa, et al.. (2004). Estimating the size of a heroin using population after a marked reduction in heroin supply. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 85(6). 1761–1767. 7 indexed citations
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Swift, Wendy & Wayne Hall. (2002). Tolerance, withdrawal and dependence. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 3(3). 355–361. 1 indexed citations
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Hall, Wayne. (1998). Proceedings of an international opioid overdose symposium. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 399(1-2). 1–130. 6 indexed citations
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Donoghoe, M. C., Wayne Hall, Andrew Ball, & Alan D López. (1998). Opioid overdose: trends, risk factors, interventions and priorities for action. Physiologia Plantarum. 173(3). 1–42. 14 indexed citations
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Ward, Jeff, Richard P. Mattick, & Wayne Hall. (1992). Key issues in methadone maintenance treatment. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 1–320. 128 indexed citations
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Hall, Wayne. (1982). Psychological Approaches to the Evaluation of Chronic Pain Patients. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 16(2). 3–9. 7 indexed citations

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