William C. Kerr

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
213 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

William C. Kerr is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, William C. Kerr has authored 213 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Epidemiology, 113 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 56 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in William C. Kerr's work include Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (125 papers), Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (113 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (41 papers). William C. Kerr is often cited by papers focused on Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (125 papers), Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (113 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (41 papers). William C. Kerr collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. William C. Kerr's co-authors include Thomas K. Greenfield, Yu Ye, Meenakshi S. Subbaraman, Kaye Middleton Fillmore, Tim Stockwell, P. S. Lomdahl, Alan Bostrom, Jason Bond, Jürgen Rehm and Tanya Chikritzhs and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

William C. Kerr

201 papers receiving 5.9k citations

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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.

Simultaneous Versus Concurrent Use of Alcohol and Cannabis in the National Alcohol Survey

2015 345 citations Meenakshi S. Subbaraman, William C. Kerr Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research profile →
Trends in Adult Alcohol Use and Binge Drinking in the Early 21st‐Century United States: A Meta‐Analysis of 6 National Survey Series

2018 289 citations William C. Kerr, Camillia K. Lui et al. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William C. Kerr United States	40	3.5k	2.6k	1.5k	687	616	213	6.1k
Emily C. Williams United States	41	4.1k 1.2×	1.4k 0.5×	2.6k 1.7×	315 0.5×	1.1k 1.8×	275	7.7k
Benjamin J. Taylor United States	29	2.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	727 0.5×	282 0.4×	239 0.4×	121	4.9k
Richard A. Friedman United States	52	1.5k 0.4×	347 0.1×	342 0.2×	416 0.6×	727 1.2×	146	10.2k
Joachim E. Fischer Germany	56	972 0.3×	502 0.2×	1.5k 1.0×	444 0.6×	1.2k 2.0×	226	10.0k
Richard C. Wender United States	41	1.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	590 0.9×	144 0.2×	99	17.2k
John R. Kramer United States	52	1.5k 0.4×	646 0.3×	410 0.3×	291 0.4×	1.4k 2.2×	215	8.5k
Giuseppe Grosso Italy	66	723 0.2×	1.4k 0.5×	408 0.3×	1.0k 1.5×	429 0.7×	373	14.3k
Paul B. Perrin United States	42	1.1k 0.3×	243 0.1×	779 0.5×	296 0.4×	1.9k 3.2×	471	8.1k
Jon Godwin United Kingdom	24	1.3k 0.4×	2.5k 1.0×	594 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	96 0.2×	78	15.5k
David Best United Kingdom	47	3.6k 1.0×	264 0.1×	2.8k 1.9×	306 0.4×	1.4k 2.3×	321	7.4k

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Ye, Yu, Camillia K. Lui, Priscilla Martínez, Thomas K. Greenfield, & William C. Kerr. (2025). Quantification of racial and ethnic disparities in alcohol‐related problems in light of different methodological approaches. Addiction. 120(5). 873–883.

Llamosas‐Falcón, Laura, Yachen Zhu, William C. Kerr, Jürgen Rehm, & Charlotte Probst. (2025). Do socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity modify the relationship between alcohol use and unintentional injury mortality?. Injury Prevention. ip–2024.

Lemp, Julia M., Carolin Kilian, William C. Kerr, et al.. (2025). Restrictive and permissive alcohol policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and their association with alcohol consumption in the United States. International Journal of Drug Policy. 140. 104826–104826. 1 indexed citations

Probst, Charlotte, Yachen Zhu, Carolin Kilian, William C. Kerr, & Jürgen Rehm. (2025). Educational attainment as a potential effect modifier of alcohol use and 100% alcohol‐attributable mortality in the United States—A longitudinal analysis of mortality linked survey data from 1997 to 2018. Addiction. 120(6). 1143–1155.

Kilian, Carolin, Julia M. Lemp, William C. Kerr, et al.. (2024). Not Everyone Benefits Equally from Sunday Alcohol Sales Bans: Socioeconomic Differences in Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-Attributable Mortality. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 23(4). 2892–2906.

Trangenstein, Pamela J., Nancy F. Berglas, Meenakshi S. Subbaraman, William C. Kerr, & Sarah C. M. Roberts. (2024). The Relationship Between Alcohol Availability and Drink-Driving Policies and Admissions to Substance Use Disorder Treatment During Pregnancy. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 86(3). 349–357. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Yachen, Laura Llamosas‐Falcón, William C. Kerr, Jürgen Rehm, & Charlotte Probst. (2024). Behavioral risk factors and socioeconomic inequalities in ischemic heart disease mortality in the United States: A causal mediation analysis using record linkage data. PLoS Medicine. 21(9). e1004455–e1004455. 4 indexed citations

Cook, Won Kim, et al.. (2024). When the Going Gets Tough: Multimorbidity and Heavy and Binge Drinking Among Adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 67(3). 407–416. 2 indexed citations

Cook, Won Kim, Camillia K. Lui, Thomas K. Greenfield, et al.. (2024). Drinking contexts, coping motive, simultaneous cannabis use, and high-intensity drinking among adults in the United States. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 59(4).

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Subbaraman, Meenakshi S., Nancy F. Berglas, William C. Kerr, et al.. (2024). Associations between alcohol taxes and varied health outcomes among women of reproductive age and infants. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 59(3). 1 indexed citations

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Cook, Won Kim, William C. Kerr, Yachen Zhu, et al.. (2024). Alcoholic beverage types consumed by population subgroups in the United States: Implications for alcohol policy to address health disparities. Drug and Alcohol Review. 43(4). 946–955. 5 indexed citations

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Trangenstein, Pamela J., Katherine J. Karriker‐Jaffe, Thomas K. Greenfield, & William C. Kerr. (2023). Characteristics associated with buying alcohol to‐go and for delivery during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic among a national sample of US adults. Drug and Alcohol Review. 42(5). 1252–1263. 5 indexed citations

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Kilian, Carolin, Julia M. Lemp, Laura Llamosas‐Falcón, et al.. (2023). Reducing alcohol use through alcohol control policies in the general population and population subgroups: a systematic review and meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine. 59. 101996–101996. 34 indexed citations

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Probst, Charlotte, Charlotte Buckley, Aurélie M. Lasserre, et al.. (2023). Simulation of Alcohol Control Policies for Health Equity (SIMAH) Project: Study Design and First Results. American Journal of Epidemiology. 192(5). 690–702. 2 indexed citations

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Puka, Klajdi, Charlotte Buckley, Nina Mulia, et al.. (2022). Behavioral stability of alcohol consumption and socio‐demographic correlates of change among a nationally representative cohort of US adults. Addiction. 118(1). 61–70. 6 indexed citations

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Buckley, Charlotte, Yu Ye, William C. Kerr, et al.. (2022). Trends in mortality from alcohol, opioid, and combined alcohol and opioid poisonings by sex, educational attainment, and race and ethnicity for the United States 2000–2019. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 405–405. 9 indexed citations

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Brennan, Alan, Charlotte Buckley, Charlotte Probst, et al.. (2020). Introducing CASCADEPOP: an open-source sociodemographic simulation platform for US health policy appraisal. PubMed. 13(2). 21–60. 6 indexed citations

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Cook, Won Kim, Christina Tam, Susan E. Luczak, et al.. (2020). Alcohol Consumption, Cardiovascular‐Related Conditions, and ALDH2*2 Ethnic Group Prevalence in Asian Americans. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. 45(2). 418–428. 4 indexed citations

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Greenfield, Thomas K., Won Kim Cook, Katherine J. Karriker‐Jaffe, et al.. (2019). The Relationship Between the U.S. State Alcohol Policy Environment and Individuals’ Experience of Secondhand Effects: Alcohol Harms Due to Others’ Drinking. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. 43(6). 1234–1243. 15 indexed citations

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Roerecke, Michael, Tom K. Greenfield, William C. Kerr, et al.. (2011). Heavy drinking occasions in relation to ischaemic heart disease mortality-- An 11-22 year follow-up of the 1984 and 1995 US National Alcohol Surveys. International Journal of Epidemiology. 40(5). 1401–1410. 34 indexed citations

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