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Tony Butler publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tony Butler sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 237 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Tony Butler D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tony Butler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tony Butler is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including Social Sciences, Medicine, and Psychology, with a notable focus on Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science among other subfields. Their work covers topics related to Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Homelessness and Social Issues, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Intimate Partner and Family Violence, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, and Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints.

The scholar has published extensively, contributing to journals and venues such as BMJ Open, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Drug and Alcohol Review, International Journal of Prisoner Health, and the Journal of Criminology.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Covid-19, prison crowding, and release policies (2020), BMJ
  • Evaluation of hepatitis C treatment-as-prevention within Australian prisons (SToP-C): a prospective cohort study (2021), The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
  • Rates and causes of death after release from incarceration among 1,471,526 people in eight high-income and middle-income countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis (2024), The Lancet
  • The Prison and Transition Health (PATH) cohort study: Prevalence of health, social, and crime characteristics after release from prison for men reporting a history of injecting drug use in Victoria, Australia (2021), Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Hepatitis C Virus Reinfection Following Direct-Acting Antiviral Treatment in the Prison Setting: The SToP-C Study (2022), Clinical Infectious Diseases

Their frequent coauthors include David M. Greenberg, Ye In Hwang, Paul Simpson, Peter W. Schofield, and Jocelyn Jones.

In addition to journal articles, the researcher has contributed to books published by the Australian Institute of Criminology eBooks, including a forthcoming title in 2025 titled 'Treating' violence: An exploration of Mental Health Review Tribunal contact and community treatment order use in people with psychosis.

Best Publications

  • Mortality among clients of a state-wide opioid pharmacotherapy program over 20 years: risk factors and lives saved.

    Louisa Degenhardt;Deborah Randall;Wayne Hall;Matthew Law

  • Mental disorders in Australian prisoners: A comparison with a community sample.

    Tony Butler;Gavin Andrews;Stephen Allnutt;Chika Sakashita

  • The impact of opioid substitution therapy on mortality post-release from prison: retrospective data linkage study

    Louisa Degenhardt;Sarah Larney;Sarah Larney;Jo Kimber;Jo Kimber;Natasa Gisev

  • Extreme cause-specific mortality in a cohort of adult prisoners—1988 to 2002: a data-linkage study

    Azar Kariminia;Tony G. Butler;Simon P. Corben;Michael H. Levy

  • Mental disorder in the New South Wales prisoner population

    Tony Butler;Stephen Allnutt;David Cain;Dale Owens

  • Hepatitis B and C in New South Wales prisons: prevalence and risk factors.

    Tony G Butler;Kate A Dolan;Mark J Ferson;Linda M McGuinness

  • Mortality among homeless people with schizophrenia in Sydney, Australia: a 10-year follow-up.

    N. C. Babidge;N. Buhrich;T. Butler

  • MENTAL ILLNESS AMONG NEW SOUTH WALES PRISONERS

    Tony Butler;Stephen Allnutt

  • Where there's smoke, there's fire: high prevalence of smoking among some sub-populations and recommendations for intervention.

    Amanda Baker;Rowena G. Ivers;Jenny Bowman;Tony Butler

  • Co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder among Australian prisoners

    Tony Butler;Devon Indig;Stephen Allnutt;Hassan Mamoon

  • Suicide risk among recently released prisoners in New South Wales, Australia

    Azar Kariminia;Matthew G Law;Tony G Butler;Michael H Levy

  • Factors associated with mortality in a cohort of Australian prisoners.

    Azar Kariminia;Matthew G. Law;Tony G. Butler;Simon P. Corben

  • Traumatic brain injury among Australian prisoners: Rates, recurrence and sequelae

    Peter W. Schofield;Tony G. Butler;Stephanie J. Hollis;Nadine E. Smith

  • The relationship between exercise and hopelessness in prison.

    Andrew J Cashin;Emily Potter;Tony G Butler

  • Oral health status of prison inmates--New South Wales, Australia.

    M. Osborn;Tony Butler;P. Barnard

  • Tobacco in prisons: a focus group study

    Robyn Richmond;Tony Butler;Kay Wilhelm;Alex Wodak

  • Opioid agonist pharmacotherapy in New South Wales from 1985 to 2006: patient characteristics and patterns and predictors of treatment retention.

    Lucy Burns;Deborah Randall;Wayne D. Hall;Matthew Law

  • Are prisoners reliable survey respondents? A validation of self-reported traumatic brain injury (TBI) against hospital medical records.

    Peter Schofield;Tony Butler;Stephanie Hollis;Catherine D'Este

  • Covid-19, prison crowding, and release policies.

    Paul L Simpson;Tony G Butler

  • Does Traumatic Brain Injury Lead to Criminality? A Whole-Population Retrospective Cohort Study Using Linked Data.

    Peter W. Schofield;Eva Malacova;David B. Preen;Catherine D’Este

  • The 2004 Australian prison entrants' blood-borne virus and risk behaviour survey

    Tony Butler;Leng Boonwaat;Sue Hailstone;Tony Falconer

Frequent Co-Authors

Juliet Richters
Juliet Richters University of New South Wales
Kay Wilhelm
Kay Wilhelm University of Notre Dame
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
John M. Kaldor
John M. Kaldor University of New South Wales
Stuart A. Kinner
Stuart A. Kinner University of Melbourne
Andrew R. Lloyd
Andrew R. Lloyd University of New South Wales
Matthew Law
Matthew Law University of New South Wales
Anthony M. A. Smith
Anthony M. A. Smith La Trobe University
Mark Stoove
Mark Stoove Burnet Institute
Don Weatherburn
Don Weatherburn University of New South Wales

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