2026 Peter Reuter: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	65	22	22	19	19	343	18358

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award

Overview

Peter Reuter is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Sociology and Political Science, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. The scholar's work also covers Toxicology and Pharmacology as subfields of study.

The research topics addressed by Peter Reuter include:

Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Crime Patterns and Interventions
Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

Peter Reuter has contributed numerous research papers to leading academic journals. Some of their recent publications are:

"Heroin use cannot be measured adequately with a general population survey," 2021, published in Addiction
"Imagining a fentanyl future: Some consequences of synthetic opioids replacing heroin," 2021, published in International Journal of Drug Policy
"The dawn of a new synthetic opioid era: the need for innovative interventions," 2020, published in Addiction (co-authored by Bryce Pardo)
"Toward a "Post-Legalization" Criminology for Cannabis: A Brief Review and Suggested Agenda for Research Priorities," 2020, published in Contemporary Drug Problems (co-authored by Benedikt Fischer)
"Does heroin-assisted treatment reduce crime? A review of randomized-controlled trials," 2021, published in Addiction (co-authored by Rosanna Smart)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter Reuter include:

Jonathan P. Caulkins (12 joint publications)
Greg Midgette (6 joint publications)
Beau Kilmer (6 joint publications)
Bryce Pardo (5 joint publications)
Jirka Taylor (3 joint publications)

Publication venues where Peter Reuter has often published comprise:

International Journal of Drug Policy (7 publications)
Addiction (5 publications)
Crime and Justice (2 publications)
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (2 publications)
The British Journal of Criminology (2 publications)

Peter Reuter has also contributed to book publications, including the title "National Assessments of Money Laundering Risks," published as an eBook by the World Bank, Washington, DC, in 2022.

Best Publications

Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

Lawrence W. Sherman;Denise C. Gottfredson;Doris L. MacKenzie;John E. Eck

2311
Citations
Disorganized crime: The economics of the visible hand

Peter Reuter

872
Citations
Drug war heresies: learning from other vices, times and places.

Robert J. MacCoun;Peter Reuter

760
Citations
Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Research in Brief. National Institute of Justice.

Lawrence W. Sherman;Denise C. Gottfredson;Doris L. MacKenzie;John Eck

650
Citations
Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Anti-Money Laundering

Edwin Truman;Peter Reuter

620
Citations
Risks and Prices: An Economic Analysis of Drug Enforcement

Peter Reuter;Mark A. R. Kleiman

562
Citations
Money from crime: A study of the economics of drug dealing in Washington, D.C

Peter Reuter;Robert J. MacCoun;Patrick Murphy;Allan Abrahamse

511
Citations
Drug Policy and the Public Good

Thomas F. Babor;Jonathan P. Caulkins;Griffith Edwards;Benedikt Fischer

508
Citations
Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

Robin Room;Benedikt Fischer;Wayne Hall;Simon Lenton

424
Citations
Systemic violence in drug markets

Peter Reuter

394
Citations
What Price Data Tell Us about Drug Markets

Jonathan P. Caulkins;Peter Reuter

380
Citations
Labor markets and crime risk factors

Shawn D. Bushway;Peter Reuter

314
Citations
The Organization of High-Level Drug Markets: An Exploratory Study

Peter Reuter;John Haaga

293
Citations
The World Heroin Market: Can Supply Be Cut?

Letizia Paoli;Victoria A. Greenfield;Peter Reuter

278
Citations
Interpreting Dutch cannabis policy: reasoning by analogy in the legalization debate.

Robert J. MacCoun;Peter Reuter;Peter Reuter

274
Citations
The Organization of Illegal Markets: An Economic Analysis

Peter Reuter

261
Citations
Conspiracy among the Many: the Mafia in Legitimate Industries

Diego Gambetta;Peter Reuter

255
Citations
Chasing dirty money : the fight against money laundering

Peter Reuter;Edwin M. Truman

244
Citations
Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes

Robert MacCOUN;Peter Reuter

231
Citations
Assessing alternative drug control regimes

Robert J. MacCoun;Peter H. Reuter;Thomas Schelling

206
Citations
How Drug Enforcement Affects Drug Prices

Jonathan P. Caulkins;Peter Reuter

204
Citations
World drug report

Peter Reuter

195
Citations
Research on Drugs-Crime Linkages: The Next Generation

Robert J. MacCoun;Beau Kilmer;Peter Reuter

169
Citations
Can new psychoactive substances be regulated effectively? An assessment of the British Psychoactive Substances Bill

Peter Reuter;Bryce Pardo

162
Citations
Draining development? Controlling flows of illicit funds from developing countries

Peter Reuter

153
Citations
How well do international drug conventions protect public health

Robin Room;Peter Reuter

153
Citations
Setting goals for drug policy: harm reduction or use reduction?

Jonathan P. Caulkins;Peter Reuter

126
Citations
Design considerations for legalizing cannabis: lessons inspired by analysis of California's Proposition 19.

Jonathan P. Caulkins;Beau Kilmer;Robert J. MacCoun;Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

125
Citations
Drug Trafficking and Ethnic Minorities in Western Europe

Letizia Paoli;Peter Reuter

122
Citations
Drug War Heresies

Robert J. MacCoun;Peter H. Reuter

84
Citations
Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand.

Richard Blum;Peter Reuter

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan P. Caulkins Carnegie Mellon University

Robert J. MacCoun Stanford University

Beau Kilmer RAND Corporation

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula University of Southern California

Robin Room La Trobe University

David R. Foxcroft Oxford Brookes University

Ingeborg Rossow Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Harold A. Pollack University of Chicago

María Elena Medina-Mora National Autonomous University of Mexico

Shawn D. Bushway University at Albany, State University of New York

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