OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Injury Prevention is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Motor vehicle collision (MVC) emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic	53
Intimate partner violence and suicide mortality: a cross-sectional study using machine learning and natural language processing of suicide data from 43 states	46
Leveraging computer vision for predicting collision risks: a cross-sectional analysis of 2019–2021 fatal collisions in the USA	42
Ankle sprains in male Israeli infantry soldiers during training: prevalence and risk factors	31
WISQARS Cost of Injury for public health research and practice	31
Non-reporting of sport-related concussion symptoms: a cross-sectional study of community rugby league players in the UK	24
Patterns and determinants of intentional and unintentional drowning mortality in Michigan: 2006–2024	21
Social determinants of health, driving time to trauma hospitals, racial composition, and firearm violence in South Carolina	20
Firearm homicides among hispanics and white non-hispanics: measuring disparities	18
Effect of a new concussion substitute rule on medical assessment of head collision events in Premier League football	17
Estimating the ratio of fatal to non-fatal overdoses involving all drugs, all opioids, synthetic opioids, heroin or stimulants, USA, 2010–2020	15
False positive paradox in survey research: examples from gun studies	15
Child safety seat checks in Salt Lake County: protective and risk factors	15
Military spouse and key stakeholder perspectives of effective messaging for US service members on secure storage of personal firearms: a qualitative study	14
Combinations of substances contributing to death among overdose decedents in Maryland (2020–2021)	14
Pregnancy-associated homicide, suicide and unintentional opioid-involved overdose deaths, North Carolina 2018–2019	14
Development and validation of the domestic violence scale for ever-married women in India	14
Insufficient sleep, impaired sleep and medically treated injury in Canadian adolescents: a national cross-sectional study	13
Economic modelling of fall prevention interventions delivered by community emergency medical services: a decision-tree analysis	11
Knowledge, mobility and the built environment: assessing risk factors for road traffic incidents during children’s school journeys in urban Blantyre, Malawi – an observational study	11
Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on paediatric injury patterns due to wheeled recreational vehicles in New South Wales, Australia: a cross-sectional study	11
Tackling sport-related concussion: effectiveness of lowering the maximum legal height of the tackle in amateur male rugby – a cross-sectional analytical study	11
Spatiotemporal crash outliers are also noteworthy: evidence from 13 years of pedestrian-vehicle crashes in North Carolina	11
Alcohol and cannabis use in traffic-related injuries in Mexico City	11
Adults’ exposure to adverse childhood experiences in the United States nationwide and in each state: modeled estimates from 2019-2020	10

Head and neck injuries from personal motorised vehicles in the United States	10
Deaths of despair in the USA, 1999–2023: a decomposition analysis	10
Impact of school closures and reopenings on paediatric fracture incidence during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series analysis in Japan	10
Elevated drug overdose mortality among Americans who visit Florida, 2003–2020	10
Rear-facing child safety seat effectiveness: evidence from motor vehicle crash data	9
Coastal mortality burden on school holidays 2004–2021: an Australian perspective	9
Development of a Modifiable Fall Risk Score for evaluating changes in fall risk over time	9
Honor ideology and private firearm ownership in US active-duty soldiers	9
Bullying victimisation and perpetration of foster and kinship youth in the USA	9
Using the NEISS database to understand pressure cooker related injuries in the USA	9
Comparing radiologically evident injuries among cisgender and transgender women	9
Connections Lab: a case study exploring a web-based innovation designed to advance shared risk and protective factor approaches to preventing injuries and violence	9
Antenatal and early childhood exposures associated with non-fatal infant injury: evidence from a longitudinal birth cohort in New Zealand	9
Incidents and patterns of commotio cordis among athletes in the USA from 1982 to 2023	8
Frequency and mechanism of injury for unintentional paediatric femoral fractures associated with consumer products over a 10-year period in the USA	8
Psychosocial challenges among the ocular injury survivors in the July 2024 mass uprising in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional assessment	8
Prehospital transport of police officers after firearm injury across US cities	8
Examining injury-related mortality disparities for American Indians/Alaskan Natives in rural Wisconsin	8
Trends in alcohol, MDMA, methylamphetamine and THC in injured and deceased motor vehicle drivers and motorcyclists over a decade (2010–2019) in Victoria, Australia	8
Evaluation of road safety policies and their enforcement in Mexico City, 2015–2019: an interrupted time-series study	8
Assessing progress of road safety legislation globally: criteria, methodology and evolution 2015–2023	8
Injuries from falling out of bed in infants under 1 year of age: a systematic review	8
Intimate partner violence during pregnancy against adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review	8
Productivity losses from non-fatal traumatic brain injuries in the United States	7
Community emergency medical services approaches to fall prevention: a systematic review	7
Predictors of ATF inspections of FFLs and subsequent violations	7
Recreational cannabis legalization and pediatric exposures in Massachusetts, United States	7
Achieving gains in state and local child safety systems and workforce development: application of the framework for quality improvement and innovation in child safety	7
Effects of state opioid prescribing laws on rates of fatal crashes in the USA	7
Pedestrians’ perceptions of the role of the built environment towards pedestrian safety in Kampala city, Uganda: a phenomenological study	7
Financial barriers and facilitators to secure firearm and medication storage among veterans with elevated suicide risk: a qualitative study	7
Piloting pond fencing for child drowning prevention: a process evaluation in rural India	7
Whistleblower: the front line and critical facilitator for injury prevention policy?	7
Self-harm in adolescence and risk of crash: a 13-year cohort study of novice drivers in New South Wales, Australia	7
Prevalence and reporting of sexual harassment and sexual assault at live music events in the USA	7
Associations between experiencing violence, owning a firearm for protection and firearm storage: a nationally representative analysis of US caregivers of teens	7
Development, dissemination and survey evaluation of layered education for healthcare professionals to support implementation of firearm injury and mortality prevention strategies in emergency care set	7
Rates of serious injury from falls in children and adolescents: 10-year retrospective review of data from Ontario, Canada	7
Joint effects of heat-humidity compound events on drowning mortality in Southern China	7
Unrealised potential of pool fencing and life jackets to prevent US drownings	7
School bullying prevention and intervention strategies in the United Arab Emirates: a scoping review	6
Trends in mortality after emergency department presentation for suicidal behaviour in California	6
Youth suicidality and adverse experiences: assessing the protective role of social support systems	6
Exploratory qualitative study of firearm storage practices among surgeons in the USA: contexts and motivations	6
Prevalence of indications of alcohol and drug use among patients treated for injurious falls by Emergency Medical Services in the USA	6
Cannabinoid home storage practices among a national Qualtrics panel of adult users of cannabinoid products in the USA	6
Epidemiology of cruciate ligament injuries in New Zealand: exploring differences by ethnicity and socioeconomic status	6
Examining the protective effects of social capital and social support on the perpetration of violence among a national sample of adolescents	6
Impact of Sources of Strength on adolescent suicide deaths across three randomized trials	6
Burden of fatal drowning in California, 2005–2019	5

Replication of a local record keeping method for collecting road crash data in low resource settings: lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal	5
Paths and their implications of parents’ health literacy on road traffic injuries in children aged 0–6 years in China: a mixed methods approach	5
Motor vehicle crash death rates among passenger vehicle occupants and pedestrians by county-level social vulnerability and urbanicity: the USA, 2019	5
Understanding non-fatal drowning in Victoria, Australia: a 20-year analysis of hospital admission data	5
Suicide by suffocation among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Veterans in the USA (2012–2018)	5
Relationship between family history of mandatory boarding school experiences and suicide risk in US reservation-based Native American youth: a cross-sectional analysis	5
Timing patterns of interpersonal violence, mental health and school attack tips submitted by youth to a statewide anonymous reporting system	5
Influence of cannabis and alcohol on motor vehicle injury severity in Canadian trauma centres: a prospective study	5
Risk factors of falls in rural elderly of Ningxia in China: a prospective cohort study	5
Sociocultural determinants of injury risk among Indigenous peoples in Canada: a population-based study of heterogeneous effects	5
Burden of road traffic injuries in Iran: a national and subnational perspective, 1990−2019	5
Concussion education for youth athletes using Pre-Game Safety Huddles: a cluster-randomised controlled trial	5
Investigating the 2016 surge in firearm violence in Illinois, USA, through community-based organisations: a qualitative study	5
How state firework restrictions affect the incidence of paediatric firework injuries in the USA	5
Global, regional and national burdens of occupational injuries, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019	5
Locked and loaded: correlates of in-home firearm storage beliefs and behaviours	5
Work-related road traffic accidents: emergence of new modes of personal journey – analysis based on data from a register of road traffic accidents in France	5
System-level interventions for fall risk assessment, fall prevention and fall injury prevention in long-term care facilities: a scoping review	5
Addressing a gap: a qualitative analysis of Scotland’s Drowning and Incident Review process	5
Understanding parent and caregiver perceptions of paediatric vehicular hyperthermia: implications for public health messaging from a pilot study	5
Paediatric cervical spinal cord injuries in motor vehicle crashes: a national study of injury patterns and restraint use	5
Non-fatal drug overdose surveillance using hospital discharge data: a comparison between the Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DOSE) system and the Healthcare Cost and Utilisation Project,	5
Effect of psychosocial interventions on risky driving behaviours among offender drivers by using simulated and real driving: study protocol for a non-randomised controlled trial	5
Dads also matter: paternal and maternal factors associated with infant injury mortality	4
In memoriam: Leif Svanström (1943–2023)	4
Barriers and facilitators in the implementation of a child restraint system discharge programme in Singapore: a qualitative study	4
‘From lab to lifesaving’: the evolution of a public health campaign to reduce drownings	4
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us	4
National estimates of emergency department visits for medication-related self-harm: United States, 2016–2019	4
Intentions and willingness to engage in risky driving behaviour among high school adolescents: evaluating the b streetsmart road safety programme	4
Paediatric burn injury trends in Ontario, Canada: a population-based repeated cross-sectional study	4
Understanding three approaches to reporting sudden unexpected infant death in the USA	4
Implementation fidelity of the ‘Stay One Step Ahead’ home safety intervention: a mixed-methods analysis	4
Assessment of Danish surf lifeguards’ skills using in situ simulation: a retrospective cohort study	4
Risk profile of unintentional injuries among children and adolescents at elementary and high schools, respectively, in Shenzhen, China	4
Characteristics of injury deaths among homeless and non-homeless US veterans (2017–2021)	4
Rising burden of fall-related fractures: insights from the global burden of disease study	4
Effectiveness of systematically delivered evidence-based home safety promotion to improve child home safety practices: a controlled before-and-after study	4
Supporting a community of injury prevention giants: past, present and future	4
Harms and Benefits Inventory (HBI): initial validation of a novel assessment of perceived harms and benefits of firearm policies and practices	4
Comparing road traffic injuries by types of road users among children and adolescents in South Korea, 2011–2021	4
Child restraint legislation and injury rate NSW 2001–2019: analysing hospital administration data	4
Prediction of the mechanism of suicide among Minnesota residents using data from the Minnesota violent death reporting system (MNVDRS)	4
Verbal autopsy instruments for ‘causes and circumstances’ surrounding drowning deaths in low– and middle–income countries: a scoping review	4
Trends in fatal paediatric unintentional injury: what is going on?	4
Agricultural work-related fatalities and injuries in Punjab (India)	4
Maternal outcomes in association with motor vehicle crashes during pregnancy: a nationwide population-based retrospective study	3
Attitudes toward physician-provided gun safety counselling among current and prospective gun owners in the USA	3
Correlates of suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury in a large community sample of children	3
Public support for logbooks during the supervised practice driving phase of graduated driver licensing: a national survey of teens and parents in the USA	3
Using artificial intelligence to identify drowning risk and protective factors present in media reports in metropolitan Houston, Texas	3
Healthcare spending and factors associated with fall injury in Australia residential aged care: a cohort analysis	3
Fatal and non-fatal civilian injuries sustained during law enforcement-reported encounters in California, 2016–2021	3
Protest-related injuries during the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone protest in Seattle, Washington, USA in 2020	3
Self-harm surveillance: an analysis of ICD-10-CM code R45.88, non-suicidal self-harm, with no co-occurring injury code	3
Mechanisms of paediatric injury: an 11-year review of injury trends from the National Trauma Data Bank	3
Is legislation effective in reducing risks of all-terrain vehicle-related injuries? A systematic review	3
Context of boat drowning in Ghana: a mixed qualitative research study	3
Association between mild cognitive impairment and falls among Chinese older adults: the mediating roles of balance capacity and depressive symptoms	3
Twenty-five year occupational homicide mortality trends in North Carolina: 1992–2017	3
Six suggestions for improving quantitative evaluations	3
Assault-related anoxia and neck injuries in US emergency departments	3
Femur Fractures in children under two related to consumer products and the home environment treated in United States emergency departments 2017-2021	3
Skateboard parks: the time has come to develop policies to reduce injuries	3
Addressing discrepancies in estimates of road traffic deaths and injuries in Ethiopia	3
Transforming injury prevention for youth (TrIPY): an intersectionality model for youth injury prevention	3
Determining the impact of legislation on paediatric all-terrain vehicle trauma and outcomes	3
Global burden and trends of transport injuries from 1990 to 2019: an observational trend study	3
Community and multisector partner engagement in US Vision Zero plan development	3
Effect of different helmet types in head injuries: a case–control study in northern Ghana	3
Identifying fatal poisonings using child fatality review, poison centre and death certificate data in the USA	3
Evaluation of a distribution, education and awareness intervention for child passenger safety in Lebanon: a low-income and middle-income country setting	3
State firearm legislation and initiation of gun carrying in the USA	3
Key informant analysis of facilitators and barriers to implementing a hospital-based firearm violence intervention programme	3
Caregiver perceptions of child active transportation safety: a nested pre-post survey	3
State-wise economic burden of road traffic injuries in India	3
Evaluating water competency attainment among young children	3
Global Burden of Disease disability weights for the US National Electronic Injury Surveillance System – All Injury Program	3
Ambulance services for road traffic injury (RTI) victims in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study on the ground realities and the way forward	3