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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Medicine D-index 88 Citations 24,760 331 World Ranking 8482 National Ranking 265

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Substance abuse

His primary areas of study are Psychiatry, Heroin, Substance abuse, Injury prevention and Psychopathology. His Psychiatry research incorporates elements of Cohort and Clinical psychology. His studies deal with areas such as Anxiety, Cognition and Comorbidity as well as Clinical psychology.

His Heroin research includes elements of Methadone, Epidemiology, Intervention, Emergency medicine and Public health. His Substance abuse research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Illicit drug and Validity. In his research, Occupational safety and health is intimately related to Suicide prevention, which falls under the overarching field of Injury prevention.

His most cited work include:

  • The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS): psychometric properties of the SDS in English and Australian samples of heroin, cocaine and amphetamine users. (952 citations)
  • Self-report among injecting drug users: A review (938 citations)
  • Major physical and psychological harms of methamphetamine use (448 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Shane Darke mainly investigates Psychiatry, Heroin, Injury prevention, Clinical psychology and Suicide prevention. His research in Psychopathology, Substance abuse, Drug, Heroin users and Methadone maintenance are components of Psychiatry. His Drug study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Internal medicine and Cannabis.

His research in Heroin intersects with topics in Methadone, Cohort, Treatment outcome, Addiction and Depression. His work in Cohort addresses subjects such as Mental health, which are connected to disciplines such as Public health. The various areas that Shane Darke examines in his Injury prevention study include Cause of death, Medical emergency, Drug overdose, Human factors and ergonomics and Occupational safety and health.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Psychiatry (60.36%)
  • Heroin (40.24%)
  • Injury prevention (19.22%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Psychiatry (60.36%)
  • Heroin (40.24%)
  • Injury prevention (19.22%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of investigation include Psychiatry, Heroin, Injury prevention, Cohort and Suicide prevention. As part of his studies on Psychiatry, Shane Darke often connects relevant subjects like Disease. In the field of Heroin, his study on Heroin overdose overlaps with subjects such as Opioid overdose.

Shane Darke interconnects Conduct disorder, Mortality rate, Internal medicine, Human factors and ergonomics and Occupational safety and health in the investigation of issues within Injury prevention. As part of one scientific family, Shane Darke deals mainly with the area of Cohort, narrowing it down to issues related to the Treatment outcome, and often Heroin users and Longitudinal cohort. His Depression research includes themes of Suicidal ideation, Glasgow Coma Scale and Clinical psychology.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders. (82 citations)
  • Long-term mortality, remission, criminality and psychiatric comorbidity of heroin dependence: 11-year findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study. (59 citations)
  • Rates, characteristics and circumstances of methamphetamine-related death in Australia: a national 7-year study. (55 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Disease

Shane Darke spends much of his time researching Psychiatry, Injury prevention, Heroin, Suicide prevention and Depression. Psychiatry is often connected to Disease in his work. The study incorporates disciplines such as Mortality rate, Occupational safety and health and Human factors and ergonomics in addition to Injury prevention.

The concepts of his Heroin study are interwoven with issues in Anesthesia, Addiction and Cohort. Cannabis and Young adult is closely connected to Odds ratio in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Suicide prevention. Shane Darke focuses mostly in the field of Depression, narrowing it down to matters related to Suicidal ideation and, in some cases, Suicide attempt.

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Best Publications

Self-report among injecting drug users: A review

Shane Darke.
Drug and Alcohol Dependence (1998)

1548 Citations

The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS): psychometric properties of the SDS in English and Australian samples of heroin, cocaine and amphetamine users.

Michael Gossop;Shane Darke;Paul Griffiths;Julie Hando.
Addiction (1995)

1484 Citations

Major physical and psychological harms of methamphetamine use

Shane Darke;Sharlene Kaye;Rebecca McKetin;Johan Duflou;Johan Duflou.
Drug and Alcohol Review (2008)

712 Citations

Development and validation of a multidimensional instrument for assessing outcome of treatment among opiate users: the Opiate Treatment Index

Shane Darke;Wayne Hall;Alex Wodak;Nick Heather.
Addiction (1992)

591 Citations

Fatal heroin ‘overdose’: a review

Shane Darke;Deborah Zador.
Addiction (1996)

576 Citations

A review of drug use and driving: epidemiology, impairment, risk factors and risk perceptions

Erin Kelly;Shane Darke;Joanne Ross.
Drug and Alcohol Review (2004)

554 Citations

Heroin overdose: causes and consequences

Matthew Warner-Smith;Shane Darke;Michael Lynskey;Wayne Hall.
Addiction (2001)

456 Citations

Overdose among heroin users in Sydney, Australia: I. Prevalence and correlates of non‐fatal overdose

Shane Darke;Joanne Ross;Wayne Hall.
Addiction (1996)

445 Citations

Suicide among heroin users: rates, risk factors and methods

Shane Darke;Joanne Ross.
Addiction (2002)

405 Citations

Heroin overdose: Research and evidence-based intervention

Shane Darke;Wayne Hall.
Journal of Urban Health-bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine (2003)

398 Citations

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