OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Crashworthiness is 2. 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
Development of impact characteristics response model for combined tube expansion axial splitting module	45
Crashworthy subfloor structure with shock absorbers using fixed-to-hinged transforming joints and inward-folding composite tube filled with foam	41
Correction	32
Vehicle collisions analysis on highways based on multi-user driving simulator and multinomial logistic regression model on US highways in Michigan	30
Crashworthiness performance of novel pre-deformation method applied square aluminum tubes	23
Dynamic response of large PEM fuel cell stacks to the impact load based on a novel simplified finite element model	22
Crash behavior and optimization of double tubes with different cross section	21
A non-linear and interaction effect analysis of various risk factors influencing mobile phone use while driving among long-haul truck drivers travelling across India	15
Pedestrian safety at urban intersections: lighting conditions is the question	15
How does the driver reaction behavior affect the safety benefit of intelligent safety systems?	15
Investigate the elastoplastic deformation behaviour of a motorcycle frame under different mechanical load configurations	15
A comparative analysis of factors affecting injury severity in speeding-related crashes on rural and urban roads	13
Prediction of extent of damage in vehicle during crash using improved XGBoost model	13
Angle-side impact velocity of the car based on impact deformation analysis	13
Crashworthiness analysis and uncertainty optimization of novel multi-wall tube	13
Product performance prediction and optimisation based on generative design: a case study of the collision of automotive front bumper beam	10
Correction	10
A machine learning based optimisation method to evaluate the crushing behaviours of square tubes with rectangular-hole-type initiators	10
Design and optimization of anti-climber device for light rail transit crash energy management system	9
Evaluation of risk injury in pedestrians’ head and chest region during collision with an autonomous bus	9
Effects of impact angles and shapes on CAI strength of composite honeycomb structure	9
Numerical study on the injury mechanism of blunt aortic rupture of the occupant in frontal and side-impact	9
An organized review of micromobility factors contributing to accidents, market and service trend, and related mishaps	9
Longitudinal collision instability behaviour of rail vehicles on long ramps	9
Effectiveness analysis of a foldable booster safety seat with integrated seatbelt buckle for reducing children’s vehicle accident injury risk	9

A comprehensive review of human body model in different crash scenarios: active and passive models	8
Improvements aiming at a safer living environment by analyzing crash severity through the use of boosting-based ensemble learning techniques	8
Evaluating bicycle lanes and stations safety in Barcelona: a Bayesian network approach to analyse injury severity	8
A numerical study on axial compression of double-walled cylinders with variable interior flat rings parameters	8
Air cargo container experimental characterisation and finite element modelling under crash related loads	8
Safety of children in commercial aircraft: a review	7
Road safety using time-series classification algorithms	7
Design principles of energy absorbing structures subjected to combined shear-compression loading	7
Network space analysis–based identification of road traffic accident hotspots: a case study	7
Pedestrian-ground contact injury protection method under the constraint of the vehicle-front end shape and its robust analysis	7
Study of thermal load-induced supersonic aeroelasticity in a foam-filled corrugated sandwich plate using refined shear deformation theory	7
In-plane crushing of a novel sinusoid-curved honeycomb under static and dynamic loadings	7
Road crash analysis and countermeasures on hilly roads in a developing country using iRAP	7
An improved XGBoost model to predict the injury severity of person in road crash	7
Analyzing factors and interaction terms affecting urban fatal crash types based on a hybrid framework of econometric model and machine learning approaches	7
Crashworthiness performance of thin-walled structures towards design configuration in vehicle crash boxes application: a review	7
Optimisation of crashworthy passenger train seat structure to reduce injury risks	7
Cork/aluminium double-layer sandwich panels under impact loading for lightweight ship structures	6
Performance design, development and verification of honeycomb aluminium barrier for vehicle side impact	6
A study on the cyclist lower extremity injury risk by using German in-depth accident data	6
Head and neck injury risk resulting from impact with small unmanned aerial vehicles: effect of impact speed, angle, and location	6
Predictive analysis of injury severity of person across angle crashes using machine learning models	6
Experimental and numerical comparative crashworthiness analysis of innovative renewable hybrid barrier with conventional roadside barriers	6
Optimization of multiple collision characteristics using an innovative crashworthiness diagram	6
Improved whale optimization algorithm and its application in vehicle structural crashworthiness	6
Developing a crash severity model based on multi objective evolutionary feature selection approaches	6
Design and evaluation of compressive properties of 3D-printed PLA stochastic open-cell foam	5
How does the safety performance of different vehicle types and weights affect the severity of a driver’s injury?	5
Controlling aeroplane crashing through aviation infrastructure using multi-agent technology	5
Application of a deep neural network for the response characteristics of a hydrostatic buffer	5
Investigating the impact of pavement condition and weather characteristics on road accidents (Review paper)	5
A novel adaptive dynamic weight distribution (ADWD) strategy applied to support vector regression (SVR)-based framework for dynamic load identification problems	5
An integrated energy absorbing module for battery protection of electric vehicle under lateral pole impact	5
Risk of head and neck injuries to passengers in rollover crashes of military armoured vehicles	5
From crash data to a ”virtual injury assessment”	5
Impact resistance and structural optimization of POZD coated composite plates	5
Axial crashworthiness of double-hat beams with various ribs	5
An empirical analysis on the effects of alcohol-impairment in injury severities of motorcyclists	5
On the response of re-entrant auxetic structures under dynamic crushing: analytical approach and finite element simulations	5
Experimental study on the impact resistance of hollow thin-walled aluminum alloy tubes and foam-filled aluminum tubes (6063-T5)	5
Optimization of vehicle pulse index parameters based on validated vehicle-occupant finite element model	5
Crashworthiness design of additively manufactured lattice-reinforced sandwich tube	5
Multi-objective optimization design of post-soil system for enhanced W-beam guardrail containment performance	5
Incorporating risky driving behaviour in the injury severity analysis of at-fault and not-at-fault novice driver involved crashes: a correlated random parameters logit model with heterogeneity in mean	5
Differences in society’s acceptance of automobile intelligent protection technologies for pedestrians/occupants and the influence of empathy	5
An efficient material selection method driven by structural crashworthiness for lightweight design of vehicle parts	5
Safety of active pre-collision seat rotation strategies for autonomous vehicles: injury risk evaluation of occupant’s neck	4
Driving choices and behaviours of young male drivers at strategic and tactical levels	4
Using automatically generated submodels in vehicle body crash optimization	4
Impact of traffic and road infrastructural design variables on road user safety – a systematic literature review	4

Comparison of human injury differences in vehicle-riding/pushing bicycle accidents	4
Evaluating constitutive models of smoothed particle hydrodynamics for bird-strike simulation	4
The multi-objective reliability-based design optimisation of buffering characteristics of airbag seat in manned airdrop	4
Comparison of injury severity level involving drivers with and without commercial driver’s licence involved in small vehicle crashes	4
Experimental study on the crashworthiness performance of rectangular and square tubes with and without bio-inspired ribs	4
Evaluation of a novel head and neck restraint for harness-restrained children	4
Identifying snowplow truck crash hotspots and spatial analysis of crashes in the mountainous roadways	4
Role of ABS and EPS foams in determining the performance of motorcyclist helmet during impact loading	4
Investigation of powder mixing methods on the energy absorption performance of graphene-reinforced cylindrical composite tubes	4
Prediction of pedestrian injuries in motorcycle-pedestrian crashes using THUMS FE-HBM	4
Numerical simulation and experimental validation of human head thermoregulation under motorbike helmet	4
Verification test of the structural integrity of an external fuel tank for aircraft under slosh and vibration conditions	3
Correction	3
Impact responses and injury analyses of a three-year-old occupant seating in forward and rearward facing CRSs using different computational models	3
Optimization of the crashworthiness design of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer bumper beam	3
Numerical modelling of different airbag folding patterns and their influence on occupant responses in frontal vehicle impact	3
Finite element modelling of a small-size motorcycle for frontal crashes	3
Identification of material parameters for the Vawter-Fung lung tissue constitutive model and assessment in human body model for impact loading	3
Application of machine learning techniques for driving errors analysis: systematic literature review	3
Effects of tube design on crashworthiness of CFRP thin-walled square beams filled with aluminium honeycomb under axial impact	3
Mechanical performance of multi-cell thin-walled tubes under static and dynamic axial loading	3
Artificially smart optimization of crash cushion device sustained by experimental and numerical study of re-entrant auxetic honeycomb	3
Research on the axial energy-absorbing characteristics of CFRP thin-walled tubes based on material modification	3
Optimization of crashworthiness of CFRP thin-walled beams filled with aluminium honeycomb based on surrogate model	3
A human body model based method for injury risk prediction considering occupant stature and posture	3
Optimisation of Occupant Restraint Systems for Autonomous Vehicles in Reclined Postures	3
Study of failure mode and failure load of a civil aircraft pylon double-layer fuse pin	3
Crashworthiness evaluation of urban air mobility vehicle configurations using a simplified finite element modelling approach	3
Combining Virtual CRASH and MADYMO to reconstruct motor vehicle collision dynamics and assess injury risk to occupants	3
Damage mechanisms and analytical model of CFRP laminate under low-velocity normal and oblique impacts	3
Development of a Crash Cushion Utilising Waste Tires as an Impact Absorber	3
Research on out-of-plane impact characteristics of self-similar gradient hierarchical quasi-honeycomb structure	3
Assessment of time allocated to pedestrian crossing: a study in pre-schoolers	2
Investigating the spatial heterogeneity of drunk-driving events in Beijing based on a hybrid method with LISA and GeoDetector	2
Lateral placement distribution of vehicles at horizontal curves on two-way undivided roads	2
Study on impact performance and optimisation of the CRH380 high-speed train traction converter cooling unit	2
Research on the cushioning and energy absorption characteristics of gradient sinusoidal negative Poisson’s ratio honeycomb structures	2
Tailoring the impact response of a spaceframe vehicle structure towards optimum crashworthiness	2
Experimental & numerical study on hybrid aluminium/GFRP thin-walled column under quasi-static axial loading	2
BConvLSTM: a deep learning-based technique for severity prediction of a traffic crash	2
Analysis of chest response characters for drivers in lateral and oblique automotive impact	2
Crashworthiness analysis and shape design optimization of corrugated tubes for railway application	2
The study of design and optimisation for CFRP combined pier anti-collision device	2
Prediction of full-scale crashworthiness performance based on component-level testing: application to bus structures	2
Interpretable ensemble-imbalance learning strategy on dealing with imbalanced vehicle-bicycle crash data: A case study of Ningbo, China	2
Inclined battery cells for mitigating damage in undercarriage collision	2
Comparative study of statistical and machine learning methods for streetcar incident duration analysis	2
Edgewise compression behaviour of 3D woven honeycomb composites	2
On the pacifying influence of an elastomeric foam core on the failure mechanism of sandwich composites with various skin layups	2
Alignment of highly resolved time-dependent experimental and simulated crash test data	2
Multi-objective crashworthiness optimization of square aluminum tubes with functionally graded BCC lattice structure filler	2
Energy absorption optimisation of an origami-shaped crash box under axial loading	2
Effect of riding postures on kinematic responses and head injuries of ETW child passengers	2
Optimising the tether angle of a head and neck restraint	2
Time series and forecasting analysis of road traffic crashes in Rwanda	2
Technology roadmap of risk identification and collision avoidance decision-making in autonomous vehicles for domestic animals	2
Study on the head and neck injury risk impacted by UAV: effect of impact velocity, angle, location, and mass	2
Ductile failure behaviour characterisation of HRT with GISSMO and crashworthiness optimisation design of VRB-HRT	2
Load-limiting in the lap belt reduces injury risks associated with new seating positions	2
Multi objective optimisation design of anti-chiral re-entrant honeycomb structure with low-speed impact resistance	2
Investigation of tissue injuries for rear-row children occupants during frontal crash	2
A method for analyzing accident reconstruction results under complex uncertain conditions	2