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Leo Beletsky publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leo Beletsky sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 155 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Leo Beletsky D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leo Beletsky sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Overview

Leo Beletsky is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research is principally situated within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Sociology and Political Science, Emergency Medicine, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work extensively covers major topics including Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects, and Poisoning and Overdose Treatments.

Beletsky has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, with recent notable papers including:

  • Tackling the overdose crisis: The role of safe supply (2020) in International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Situating the Continuum of Overdose Risk in the Social Determinants of Health: A New Conceptual Framework (2020) in Milbank Quarterly
  • Overdose-Related Cardiac Arrests Observed by Emergency Medical Services During the US COVID-19 Epidemic (2020) in JAMA Psychiatry
  • Surging Racial Disparities in the U.S. Overdose Crisis (2022) in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Police discretion in encounters with people who use drugs: operationalizing the theory of planned behavior (2021) in Harm Reduction Journal

Frequent co-authors include Steffanie A. Strathdee, Javier Cepeda, Jennifer Carroll, Jeremiah Goulka, and Sunyou Kang.

Beletsky commonly publishes in venues such as the International Journal of Drug Policy, Harm Reduction Journal, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Addiction Medicine, and Health & Justice.

Best Publications

  • Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants

    Nabarun Dasgupta;Leo Beletsky;Daniel Ciccarone

  • Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response.

    Alexander C. Tsai;Alexander C. Tsai;Mathew V. Kiang;Michael L. Barnett;Michael L. Barnett;Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky

  • A Public Health Strategy for the Opioid Crisis.

    Brendan Saloner;Emma E. McGinty;Leo Beletsky;Ricky Bluthenthal

  • Today's fentanyl crisis: Prohibition's Iron Law, revisited.

    Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Corey S. Davis

  • Buprenorphine Deregulation and Mainstreaming Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: X the X Waiver.

    Kevin Fiscella;Sarah E. Wakeman;Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky

  • Situating the Continuum of Overdose Risk in the Social Determinants of Health: A New Conceptual Framework.

    Ju Nyeong Park;Saba Rouhani;Leo Beletsky;Louise Vincent

  • Attitudes of Police Officers Towards Syringe Access, Occupational Needle-Sticks, and Drug Use: A qualitative Study of one City Police Department in the United States

    Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Grace E. Macalino;Scott Burris

  • Physicians’ Knowledge of and Willingness to Prescribe Naloxone to Reverse Accidental Opiate Overdose: Challenges and Opportunities

    Leo Beletsky;Robin Ruthazer;Grace E. Macalino;Josiah D. Rich

  • Tackling the overdose crisis: The role of safe supply.

    Andrew Ivsins;Jade Boyd;Leo Beletsky;Ryan McNeil

  • Police Officers’ and Paramedics’ Experiences with Overdose and Their Knowledge and Opinions of Washington State’s Drug Overdose–Naloxone–Good Samaritan Law

    Caleb J. Banta-Green;Leo Beletsky;Jennifer A. Schoeppe;Phillip O. Coffin

  • Syringe access, syringe sharing, and police encounters among people who inject drugs in New York City: a community-level perspective.

    Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Daliah Heller;Samuel M. Jenness;Alan Neaigus

  • Police training to align law enforcement and HIV prevention: preliminary evidence from the field

    Leo Beletsky;Alpna Agrawal;Bruce Moreau;Pratima Kumar

  • Syringe Confiscation as an HIV Risk Factor: The Public Health Implications of Arbitrary Policing in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

    Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Remedios Lozada;Tommi Gaines;Daniela Abramovitz

  • HIV, drugs and the legal environment

    Steffanie A. Strathdee;Leo Beletsky;Thomas Kerr

  • Do Criminal Laws Influence HIV Risk Behavior? An Empirical Trial

    Scott Burris;Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Joseph A. Burleson;Patricia Case

  • Engaging Law Enforcement in Overdose Reversal Initiatives: Authorization and Liability for Naloxone Administration

    Corey S. Davis;Derek Carr;Jessica K. Southwell;Leo Beletsky

  • Police discretion in encounters with people who use drugs: operationalizing the theory of planned behavior

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  • The law (and politics) of safe injection facilities in the United States.

    Leo Beletsky;Corey S. Davis;Evan Anderson;Scott Burris;Scott Burris;Scott Burris

  • The roles of law, client race and program visibility in shaping police interference with the operation of US syringe exchange programs.

    Leo Beletsky;Lauretta E. Grau;Edward White;Sarah Bowman

  • Police Encounters Among Needle Exchange Clients in Baltimore: Drug Law Enforcement as a Structural Determinant of Health

    Leo Beletsky;Jess Cochrane;Anne L. Sawyer;Chris Serio-Chapman

  • Pharmacies as providers of expanded health services for people who inject drugs: a review of laws, policies, and barriers in six countries

    Theodore M Hammett;Son Phan;Julia Gaggin;Patricia Case

  • Mexico's northern border conflict: collateral damage to health and human rights of vulnerable groups

    Leo Beletsky;Gustavo Martinez;Tommi Gaines;Lucie Nguyen

  • Police education as a component of national HIV response: lessons from Kyrgyzstan.

    Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Rachel Thomas;Natalya Shumskaya;Irina Artamonova

  • Racial/Ethnic, Social, and Geographic Trends in Overdose-Associated Cardiac Arrests Observed by US Emergency Medical Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Joseph Friedman;N. Clay Mann;Helena Hansen;Philippe Bourgois

  • Can Police Training Help Align Law Enforcement and HIV Prevention? Preliminary Evidence from the Field

    Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;alpna agrawal;Bruce Moreau;Pratima Kumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego
Corey S. Davis
Corey S. Davis East Carolina University
Scott Burris
Scott Burris Temple University
Kevin Fiscella
Kevin Fiscella University of Rochester Medical Center
Traci C. Green
Traci C. Green Brown University
Susan G. Sherman
Susan G. Sherman Johns Hopkins University
Ricky N. Bluthenthal
Ricky N. Bluthenthal University of Southern California
Thomas L. Patterson
Thomas L. Patterson University of California, San Diego
Will Small
Will Small Simon Fraser University

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