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Thomas K. Greenfield

Thomas K. Greenfield

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
73
Citations
21171
World Ranking
632
National Ranking
303

Overview

Thomas K. Greenfield is affiliated with the Alcohol Research Group in the United States. Their published work primarily focuses on medicine, with a special emphasis on epidemiology, general health professions, pathology and forensic medicine, physiology, and pharmacology. The majority of their research integrates topics related to substance abuse treatment and outcomes, alcohol consumption and health effects, homelessness and social issues, smoking behavior and cessation, cannabis and cannabinoid research, behavioral health and interventions, and health disparities and outcomes.

Greenfield has contributed extensively to the scientific literature with over a hundred publications centered in medicine. Within their field of study, epidemiology is the most prolific subfield, followed by general health professions and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their recent papers include:

  • Improving Knowledge that Alcohol Can Cause Cancer is Associated with Consumer Support for Alcohol Policies: Findings from a Real-World Alcohol Labelling Study, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Testing Alcohol Labels as a Tool to Communicate Cancer Risk to Drinkers: A Real-World Quasi-Experimental Study, 2020, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
  • The role of alcohol use in the aetiology and progression of liver disease: A narrative review and a quantification, 2021, Drug and Alcohol Review
  • Longitudinal assessment of drinking changes during the pandemic: The 2021 COVID-19 follow-up study to the 2019 to 2020 National Alcohol Survey, 2022, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Mental health and drinking to cope in the early COVID period: Data from the 2019-2020 US National Alcohol Survey, 2022, Addictive Behaviors

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe (27 collaborations)
  • William C. Kerr (24 collaborations)
  • Deidre Patterson (14 collaborations)
  • Yu Ye (11 collaborations)
  • Nina Mulia (11 collaborations)

Thomas K. Greenfield has published regularly in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (10 publications)
  • Drug and Alcohol Review (6 publications)
  • Addictive Behaviors (6 publications)
  • Alcohol and Alcoholism (5 publications)
  • Addiction (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Quality of life and satisfaction with outcome among prostate-cancer survivors.

    Martin G. Sanda;Rodney L. Dunn;Jeff Michalski;Howard M. Sandler

  • Gender differences in alcohol consumption and adverse drinking consequences: cross‐cultural patterns

    R W Wilsnack;N D Vogeltanz;S C Wilsnack;T R Harris

  • Screening for depression in primary care clinics: the CES-D and the BDI.

    Jane M. Zich;C. Clifford Attkisson;Thomas K. Greenfield

  • The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together

    Bruce Taylor;H. M. Irving;Fotis Kanteres;Robin Room;Robin Room

  • Disparities in Alcohol-related Problems among White, Black and Hispanic Americans

    Nina Mulia;Yinjiao Ye;Thomas K. Greenfield;Sarah E. Zemore

  • Average Volume of Alcohol Consumption, Patterns of Drinking, and All-Cause Mortality: Results from the US National Alcohol Survey

    Jürgen Rehm;Thomas K. Greenfield;John D. Rogers

  • Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunities.

    Thomas K. Greenfield;William C. Kerr

  • The UCSF Client Satisfaction Scales: I. The Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-8.

    C. Clifford Attkisson;Thomas K. Greenfield

  • Alcohol-Attributable Cancer Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost in the United States

    David E. Nelson;Dwayne W. Jarman;Jürgen Rehm;Thomas K. Greenfield

  • Ways of measuring drinking patterns and the difference they make: experience with graduated frequencies

    Tom K. Greenfield

  • Effects of telephone versus face-to-face interview modes on reports of alcohol consumption.

    Thomas K. Greenfield;Lorraine T. Midanik;John D. Rogers

  • Social disadvantage, stress, and alcohol use among black, Hispanic, and white Americans: findings from the 2005 U.S. National Alcohol Survey.

    Nina Mulia;Yinjiao Ye;Sarah E. Zemore;Thomas K. Greenfield

  • Predictors of Violence in Civilly Committed Acute Psychiatric Patients

    Dale E. McNiel;Renée L. Binder;Thomas K. Greenfield

  • Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-8 and Service Satisfaction Scale-30.

    C. Clifford Attkisson;Thomas K. Greenfield

  • Are Lifetime Abstainers the Best Control Group in Alcohol Epidemiology? On the Stability and Validity of Reported Lifetime Abstention

    Jürgen T. Rehm;Hyacinth Irving;Yinjiao Ye;William C. Kerr

  • Risk functions for alcohol-related problems in a 1988 US national sample

    Lorraine T. Midanik;Tammy W. Tam;Thomas K. Greenfield;Raul Caetano

  • Ethnic disparities in clinical severity and services for alcohol problems: results from the National Alcohol Survey.

    Laura A. Schmidt;Yu Ye;Thomas K. Greenfield;Jason Bond

  • Who drinks most of the alcohol in the US? The policy implications.

    T K Greenfield;J D Rogers

  • Assessment methods for alcohol consumption, prevalence of high risk drinking and harm: a sensitivity analysis.

    Jürgen Rehm;Thomas K Greenfield;Gordon Walsh;Xiaodi Xie

  • A 10-year national trend study of alcohol consumption, 1984-1995: is the period of declining drinking over?

    T K Greenfield;L T Midanik;J D Rogers

  • Unequal treatment: racial and ethnic disparities in alcoholism treatment services.

    Laura Schmidt;Thomas Greenfield;Nina Mulia

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Bond
Jason Bond Alcohol Research Group
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Lorraine T. Midanik
Lorraine T. Midanik University of California, Berkeley
Norman Giesbrecht
Norman Giesbrecht Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Sharon C. Wilsnack
Sharon C. Wilsnack University of North Dakota
Lee Ann Kaskutas
Lee Ann Kaskutas University of California, Berkeley
Kathryn Graham
Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
David Hammond
David Hammond University of Waterloo
Kim Bloomfield
Kim Bloomfield Aarhus University

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