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20667
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Stephen Crystal 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 Stephen Crystal sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 343 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen Crystal 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 Stephen Crystal sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stephen Crystal is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on public health, epidemiology, and pediatrics-related fields.

Their work spans several subfields of study including:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Emergency Medicine
  • General Health Professions

Stephen Crystal has contributed extensively to topics related to substance use and treatment, including:

  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

They have published numerous papers, with some recent notable works being:

  • "Impact Of Long-Term Buprenorphine Treatment On Adverse Health Care Outcomes In Medicaid," 2020, Health Affairs
  • "Suicide Risk in Medicare Patients With Schizophrenia Across the Life Span," 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Perspectives of opioid use disorder treatment providers during COVID-19: Adapting to flexibilities and sustaining reforms," 2021, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Buprenorphine and Extended-Release Naltrexone Filled Prescriptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • "Trends in Antipsychotic Medication Use in Young Privately Insured Children," 2020, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

The scientist has frequent collaborations with several researchers including:

  • Hillary Samples
  • Mark Olfson
  • Peter Treitler
  • E. Jennifer Edelman
  • Magdalena Cerdá

Stephen Crystal's work has appeared frequently in various academic journals, most notably in:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Innovation in Aging
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Health Services Research

Best Publications

  • Premature Mortality Among Adults With Schizophrenia in the United States

    Mark Olfson;Tobias Gerhard;Cecilia Huang;Stephen Crystal

  • Health-related quality of life in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection in the United States: results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study.

    Ron D Hays;Ron D Hays;William E Cunningham;Cathy D Sherbourne;Ira B Wilson

  • Cumulative Advantage, Cumulative Disadvantage, and Inequality Among Elderly People

    Stephen Crystal;Dennis Shea

  • Increased COPD among HIV-positive compared to HIV-negative veterans.

    Kristina Crothers;Adeel A. Butt;Cynthia L. Gibert;Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas

  • HIV infection and the risk of diabetes mellitus.

    Adeel A Butt;Kathleen McGinnis;Maria C Rodriguez-Barradas;Stephen Crystal

  • Access of Vulnerable Groups to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Persons in Care for HIV Disease in the United States

    R Andersen;S Bozzette;M Shapiro;P St Clair

  • Medical Expenditures during the Last Year of Life: Findings from the 1992–1996 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

    Donald R Hoover;Stephen Crystal;Rizie Kumar;Usha Sambamoorthi

  • Differential risk of death in older residents in nursing homes prescribed specific antipsychotic drugs: population based cohort study

    Krista F.g. Huybrechts;T Gerhard;S Crystal;M Olfson

  • HIV Status, Burden of Comorbid Disease, and Biomarkers of Inflammation, Altered Coagulation, and Monocyte Activation

    Kaku A. Armah;Kathleen McGinnis;Jason Baker;Cynthia Gibert

  • Diagnosis and treatment of depression in the elderly medicare population: predictors, disparities, and trends.

    Stephen Crystal;Usha Sambamoorthi;James T. Walkup;Ayşe Akincigil

  • Violence victimization after HIV infection in a US probability sample of adult patients in primary care.

    Sally Zierler;Sally Zierler;William E. Cunningham;Ron Andersen;Martin F. Shapiro

  • Broadened Use Of Atypical Antipsychotics: Safety, Effectiveness, And Policy Challenges

    Stephen Crystal;Mark Olfson;Cecilia Huang;Harold Pincus

  • Development and verification of a "virtual" cohort using the National VA Health Information System.

    Shawn L Fultz;Melissa Skanderson;Larry A Mole;Neel Gandhi

  • Trends in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder medication use: a retrospective observational study using population-based databases

    Sudha R. Raman;Kenneth K.C. Man;Shahram Bahmanyar;Anick Berard

  • HIV as an Independent Risk Factor for Incident Lung Cancer

    Keith Sigel;Juan Wisnivesky;Kirsha Gordon;Robert Dubrow

  • Risky business: the cultural construction of AIDS risk groups.

    Nina Glick Schiller;Stephen Crystal;Denver Lewellen

  • Trends in antipsychotic drug use by very young, privately insured children.

    Mark Olfson;Stephen Crystal;Cecilia Huang;Tobias Gerhard

  • Out-of-pocket health care costs among older Americans.

    Stephen Crystal;Richard W. Johnson;Jeffrey Harman;Usha Sambamoorthi

  • A temporal and dose-response association between alcohol consumption and medication adherence among veterans in care.

    R Scott Braithwaite;Kathleen A. McGinnis;Joseph Conigliaro;Stephen A. Maisto

  • Coping, Conflictual Social Interactions, Social Support, and Mood Among HIV‐Infected Persons

    John A. Fleishman;Cathy Donald Sherbourne;Stephen Crystal;Rebecca L. Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Olfson
Mark Olfson Columbia University
Amy C. Justice
Amy C. Justice Yale University
Usha Sambamoorthi
Usha Sambamoorthi West Virginia University
David A. Fiellin
David A. Fiellin Yale University
Martin F. Shapiro
Martin F. Shapiro Cornell University
David Rimland
David Rimland Emory University
Samuel A. Bozzette
Samuel A. Bozzette University of California, San Diego
Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas
Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas Baylor College of Medicine
Robert D. Kerns
Robert D. Kerns Yale University
Brandon D. L. Marshall
Brandon D. L. Marshall Brown University

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