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Matthew Hickman

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Medicine

D-Index
89
Citations
34181
World Ranking
12558
National Ranking
1185

Matthew Hickman publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

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

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 380 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Matthew Hickman D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Matthew Hickman is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a substantial focus on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions, and Hepatology.

Their main topics of study include:

  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Notable recent papers authored by Matthew Hickman include:

  • "Opioid use disorder," 2020, published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • "Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts," 2020, published in The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Association of Opioid Agonist Treatment With All-Cause Mortality and Specific Causes of Death Among People With Opioid Dependence," 2021, published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders," 2020, published in Addiction
  • "Epidemiology of injecting drug use, prevalence of injecting-related harm, and exposure to behavioural and environmental risks among people who inject drugs: a systematic review," 2023, published in The Lancet Global Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Matthew Hickman are:

  • Peter Vickerman
  • Louisa Degenhardt
  • Jon Heron
  • Isabel Oliver
  • Jack Stone

Matthew Hickman regularly publishes in several academic journals, with a presence in:

  • Addiction
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • BMC Public Health

Best Publications

  • Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs: a systematic review

    Bradley M Mathers;Louisa Degenhardt;Louisa Degenhardt;Benjamin Phillips;Lucas Wiessing

  • Global prevalence of injecting drug use and sociodemographic characteristics and prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV in people who inject drugs: a multistage systematic review

    Louisa Degenhardt;Amy Peacock;Samantha Colledge;Janni Leung

  • Global statistics on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use: 2017 status report

    Amy Peacock;Amy Peacock;Janni Leung;Sarah Larney;Sarah Larney;Samantha Colledge

  • Mortality among regular or dependent users of heroin and other opioids: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies

    Louisa Degenhardt;Chiara Bucello;Bradley Mathers;Christina Briegleb

  • HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for people who inject drugs: a systematic review of global, regional, and national coverage.

    Bradley M Mathers;Louisa Degenhardt;Hammad Ali;Lucas Wiessing

  • Global patterns of opioid use and dependence: harms to populations, interventions, and future action.

    Louisa Degenhardt;Jason Grebely;Jack Stone;Matthew Hickman

  • Meningococcal carriage by age: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Hannah Christensen;Margaret May;Leah Bowen;Matthew Hickman

  • Addressing liver disease in the UK: A blueprint for attaining excellence in health care and reducing premature mortality from lifestyle issues of excess consumption of alcohol, obesity, and viral hepatitis

    Roger Williams;Richard Aspinall;Mark Bellis;Ginette Camps-Walsh

  • Hepatitis C Virus Treatment for Prevention Among People Who Inject Drugs: Modeling Treatment Scale-Up in the Age of Direct-Acting Antivirals

    Natasha K. Martin;Peter Vickerman;Jason Grebely;Margaret Hellard

  • Opiate substitution treatment and HIV transmission in people who inject drugs: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Georgina J MacArthur;Silvia Minozzi;Natasha Martin;Natasha Martin;Peter Vickerman;Peter Vickerman

  • Global overview of injecting drug use and HIV infection among injecting drug users.

    Carmen Aceijas;Gerry V. Stimson;Matthew Hickman;Tim Rhodes

  • Prevention of HIV infection for people who inject drugs: why individual, structural, and combination approaches are needed

    Louisa Degenhardt;Bradley Mathers;Peter Vickerman;Peter Vickerman;Tim Rhodes;Tim Rhodes

  • Are needle and syringe programmes associated with a reduction in HIV transmission among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Esther J Aspinall;Dhanya Nambiar;David J Goldberg;Matthew Hickman

  • Global, regional, and country-level coverage of interventions to prevent and manage HIV and hepatitis C among people who inject drugs: a systematic review

    Sarah Larney;Amy Peacock;Janni Leung;Samantha Colledge

  • Association Between Cannabis and Psychosis: Epidemiologic Evidence

    Suzanne H. Gage;Matthew Hickman;Stanley Zammit

  • The impact of needle and syringe provision and opiate substitution therapy on the incidence of hepatitis C virus in injecting drug users: pooling of UK evidence.

    Katy Turner;Sharon Hutchinson;Peter Vickerman;Vivian Hope;Vivian Hope

  • Needle and syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy for preventing HCV transmission among people who inject drugs: findings from a Cochrane Review and meta-analysis.

    Lucy Platt;Silvia Minozzi;Jennifer Reed;Peter Vickerman

  • Interventions to prevent HIV and Hepatitis C in people who inject drugs: A review of reviews to assess evidence of effectiveness

    Georgina J. MacArthur;Eva van Velzen;Norah Palmateer;Jo Kimber

  • Risk of death during and after opiate substitution treatment in primary care: prospective observational study in UK General Practice Research Database

    Rosie Cornish;John Macleod;John Strang;Peter Vickerman;Peter Vickerman

  • Opiate substitution treatment and HIV transmission in people who inject drugs

    Georgie J MacArthur;Silvia Minozzi;Natasha Martin;Peter Vickerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Vickerman
Peter Vickerman University of Bristol
Jon Heron
Jon Heron University of Bristol
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
Rona Campbell
Rona Campbell University of Bristol
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
Jason Grebely
Jason Grebely University of New South Wales
Glyn Lewis
Glyn Lewis University College London
Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell University of New South Wales
Alan Brennan
Alan Brennan University of Sheffield
Tim Rhodes
Tim Rhodes London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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