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2026

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D-Index
133
Citations
84420
World Ranking
10
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
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Overview

Lloyd D. Johnston is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span the field of Medicine, with particular focus on epidemiology, general health professions, pharmacology, physiology, and clinical psychology.

The main research topics covered in their work include substance abuse treatment and outcomes, cannabis and cannabinoid research, smoking behavior and cessation, food security and health in diverse populations, sexuality, behavior, and technology, as well as gender, feminism, and media, and eating disorders and behaviors.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this researcher include Patrick M. O'Malley, Megan E. Patrick, Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath, Richard Miech, and Adam M. Leventhal.

Their publications have appeared prominently in several scientific journals, notably:

  • JAMA Pediatrics
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Tobacco Control
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • JAMA

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Lloyd D. Johnston demonstrate a focus on adolescent and young adult substance use trends and consequences. These include:

  • "Trends in Use and Perceptions of Nicotine Vaping Among US Youth From 2017 to 2020" (2020, JAMA Pediatrics)
  • "Adolescent drug use before and during U.S. national COVID-19 social distancing policies" (2021, Drug and Alcohol Dependence)
  • "Trends in Marijuana Vaping and Edible Consumption From 2015 to 2018 Among Adolescents in the US" (2020, JAMA Pediatrics)
  • "The great decline in adolescent cigarette smoking since 2000: consequences for drug use among US adolescents" (2020, Tobacco Control)
  • "Self-reported perceived negative consequences of marijuana use among U.S. young adult users, 2008-2019" (2021, Addictive Behaviors)

Best Publications

  • Monitoring the Future: National Results on Adolescent Drug Use: Overview of Key Findings

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O’Malley;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2010. Volume II, College Students & Adults Ages 19-50.

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman;John E. Schulenberg

  • Monitoring the Future: National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2005. Volume 1: Secondary School Students, 2005. NIH Publication No. 06-5883.

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman;John E. Schulenberg

  • National Survey Results on Drug Use from the Monitoring the Future Study, 1975-1998. Volume I: Secondary School Students.

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2017: Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Richard A. Miech;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior

    D. Wayne Osgood;Janet K. Wilson;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2007. Volume II: College students and adults ages 19-45

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman;John E. Schulenberg

  • Epidemiology of alcohol and other drug use among American college students.

    Patrick M. O'Malley;Lloyd D. Johnston

  • Surveying the damage: a review of research on consequences of alcohol misuse in college populations.

    H Wesley Perkins

  • Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2016: Overview, Key Findings on Adolescent Drug Use.

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Richard A. Miech;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2015: Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Richard A. Miech;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2014: Volume II, college students and adults ages 19-55

    L. D. Johnston;P. M. O’Malley;J. G. Bachman;J. E. Schulenberg

  • Monitoring the Future national results on adolescent drug use: Overview of key findings, 2012

    L. D. Johnston;P. M. O’Malley;J. G. Bachman;J. E. Schulenberg

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2019: Volume II, college students and adults ages 19-60

    John Schulenberg;Lloyd Johnston;Patrick O'Malley;Jerald Bachman

  • Getting drunk and growing up: trajectories of frequent binge drinking during the transition to young adulthood

    John Schulenberg;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman;Katherine N. Wadsworth

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2012. Volume II: College students and adults ages 19-50.

    L. D. Johnston;P. M. O’Malley;J. G. Bachman;J. E. Schulenberg

  • The generality of deviance in late adolescence and early adulthood.

    D. Wayne Osgood;Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Racial/Ethnic differences in smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use among American high school seniors, 1976-89.

    Jerald G. Bachman;John M. Wallace Jr.;Patrick M. O'Malley;Lloyd D. Johnston

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2019: Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Richard A. Miech;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Monitoring the Future: National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2007. Volume I, Secondary School Students. NIH Publication No. 08-6418A.

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman;John E. Schulenberg

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2010. Volume II: College students and adults ages 19-50

    L. D. Johnston;P. M. O’Malley;J. G. Bachman;J. E. Schulenberg

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2012. Volume I: Secondary school students

    L. D. Johnston;P. M. O’Malley;J. G. Bachman;J. E. Schulenberg

  • Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2017: Volume II, college students and adults ages 19-55

    J.E. Schulenberg;L.D. Johnston;P.M. O'Malley;J.G. Bachman

  • Monitoring the Future National Results on Adolescent Drug Use: Overview of Key Findings, 2001.

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Monitoring the Future: National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2006. Volume II: College Students & Adults Ages 19-25. NIH Publication No. 07-6206.

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman;John E. Schulenberg

  • Cigarette smoking among adults — United States, 1988

    Jerald G. Bachman;Lloyd D. Johnston;P. M. O'Malley

  • Monitoring the Future. National Results on Adolescent Drug Use: Overview of Key Findings, 2009. NIH Publication Number 10-7583.

    Lloyd D. Johnston;Patrick M. O'Malley;Jerald G. Bachman;John E. Schulenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick M. O'Malley
Patrick M. O'Malley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jerald G. Bachman
Jerald G. Bachman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John E. Schulenberg
John E. Schulenberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Megan E. Patrick
Megan E. Patrick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath
Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula University of Southern California
Matthew C. Farrelly
Matthew C. Farrelly RTI International
Philippa Clarke
Philippa Clarke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jamie F. Chriqui
Jamie F. Chriqui University of Illinois at Chicago
Brian R. Flay
Brian R. Flay Boise State University

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