OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Classifying safe following distance for motorcycles to prevent rear-end collisions	111
Prospective examination of self-harm up to three years after contact with Child Protective Services (CPS)	26
Risk exposure factors influencing the frequency of road crashes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. A negative binomial spatial regression model	26
A hybrid clustering and random forest model to analyse vulnerable road user to motor vehicle (VRU-MV) crashes	25
Pedestrians injuries in the north east region of Jamaica: a cross sectional study	24
Methods of strategic road safety management: a systematic review	23
A comparative assessment of subjective experience in simulator and on-road driving under normal and time pressure driving conditions	23
Violence against children: multifaceted approaches to a complex problem	22
Assessing the interdependence of rider fault-status and injury severity in motorcycle rear-end crashes: insights from bivariate probit and XGBoost-SHAP models	21
Factors explaining pedestrian-involved fatality crashes on National Highways in India	19
List of reviewers (2022–2023)	19
Evaluating overtaking and filtering maneuver of motorcyclists and car drivers using advanced trajectory data analysis	14
Associations between having been threatened or injured with a weapon and substance use and mental health among high school students in the United States	13
Childhood burn injury in the ger districts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: an analysis of parent narratives	13
Data-driven crash prediction by injury severity using a recurrent neural network model based on Keras framework	13
Traffic risk for children and young adults: research challenges for meeting the global target for road traffic fatality reduction	12
Child pedestrian, drowning and burn mortality in Johannesburg	11
Which factors contribute to road crashes in non-commercial and commercial vehicles? An examination of administrative data from motorways in Pakistan	10
Exploring safety effects on urban expressway diverging areas: crash risk estimation considering extreme conflict types	10
Investigating the effect of road condition and vacation on crash severity using machine learning algorithms	9
The applicability of Smeed’s Law in an evaluation of national road safety management systems: Montenegro versus Great Britain	9
Random forest models for motorcycle accident prediction using naturalistic driving based big data	9
Traffic crashes in Dhaka, Bangladesh: analysing crashes involving unconventional modes, pedestrians and public transit	8
Protecting the vulnerable by design – a tribute to Dinesh Mohan(1945–2021)	8
Safety and security perceptions in informal transport: the case of Tunisia	8

Enhancing safety of construction workers in Korea: an integrated text mining and machine learning framework for predicting accident types	8
A study of the factors affecting driving risk perception using the Bivariate Ordered Probit model	8
Bicycle crash frequency modeling across different crash severities using a random-forest-based Shapley Additive explanations approach	8
The prevalence of helmet use in motorcyclists around the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 5,006,476 participants	8
Injury severity analysis of e-bike riders in China based on the in-vehicle recording video crash data: a random parameter ordered logit model	7
Using unsupervised learning to investigate injury-associated factors of animal-vehicle crashes	7
Estimating lives saved and serious injuries reduced by bicycle helmet use in Colorado, 2006–2014	7
Impact of urban form and street infrastructure on pedestrian-motorist collisions	6
Mediating role of emotional suppression in the relationship between psychological factors and intimate partner violence among couples with mixed-romantic orientations	6
Safety assessment of coordinated signalized intersections in a connected vehicle environment: a microsimulation approach	6
Proactive pedestrian safety evaluation at urban road network level, an experience in Kolkata City, India	6
Lessons learned from characteristics of extraordinarily severe traffic crashes in China, 2004–2019	6
Clinician guide to motorcycle helmet safety	6
Child maltreatment, suicidal ideation, and in-home firearm availability in the U.S.: findings from the longitudinal studies of child abuse and neglect	6
Analysis of contributory factors of fatal pedestrian crashes by mixed logit model and association rules	5
Systems-thinking-based road safety research: the way forward	5
Newspaper framing of motor vehicle crashes and road safety in Argentina	5
Prevalence and risk factors of cooking-related burn injury among under-five-years old children in a resource-limited setting: a community-based cross-sectional study in Northwest Ethiopia	5
Performance of a Likert adaptation of the SRQ-20 scale among women victims of intimate partner violence in Colombia: an exploratory study	5
Advancing youth transportation safety in North Carolina through addressing alcohol-related motor vehicle collisions	5
A comparative analysis of factors influencing the injury severity of daytime and nighttime crashes on a mountainous expressway in China	5
Professor Emeritus Dr Leif O. Svanström, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 30 October 1943 – 29 January 2023	5
Structural equation modeling of pedestrian behavior at footbridges in Ghana	5
Analyzing the factors affecting the crash severity level at urban roundabouts in non-lane-based heterogeneous traffic	5
Developing a national database of police-reported fatal road traffic crashes for road safety research and management in India	5
Seatbelt use among bus passengers in Ghana: observed versus self-reported measures	5
Hot spot analysis and evaluation of influencing factors on regional road crash safety and severity indices: insights from Iran	5
Applying count time series to assess 13-year pedestrian mortality trend caused by traffic accidents in East-Azerbaijan province, Iran	5
Interpretable machine learning for evaluating risk factors of freeway crash severity	5
Impact of socioeconomic and transport indicators on road safety during the crisis period in Europe	5
Impact of Roadside Design Compliance and Hazard Offset on the Risk of Single-Vehicle, Run-Off-Road Crash Fatalities	5
Examining fatal and non-fatal injuries of drivers in single-vehicle-involved crashes on urban roadways using random parameter logit model	5
An analysis of occupational illness and injuries of the industrial workers in slums	5
A call for action on alarming road traffic injuries in Africa	5
Traffic safety, injuries and the end of COVID 19 pandemic	4
The effect of different mobile uses on crash frequency among young drivers: application of statistical models and clustering analysis	4
Bivariate ordered probit modelling of motorcycle riders and pillion passengers’ injury severities relationship and associated risk factors	4
Cluster analysis of the spatial distribution of pedestrian deaths and injuries by parishes in Kampala city, Uganda	4
Factors associated with physical violence against children in Haiti: a national population-based cross-sectional survey	4
The challenge of meeting global targets for road traffic fatality reduction	4
Investigating injury severity interaction between urban and urban-rural fringe areas: a grouped random parameters seemingly unrelated bivariate probit approach	4
Advancing road traffic injury measures in the WANA region towards road safety specific SDGs	4
Identifying the causal effects of driver distraction on hazardous actions at intersections based on propensity score weighting	4
Investigating effective factors on rural crash severity at marginal areas around cities in Iran: a partial proportional odds modelling approach	4
Investigating and modeling the influence of PET-types on crossing conflicts at urban unsignalized intersections in India	4
Socio-cultural context of road safety in youth: a scoping review	3
The safety impacts of paved shoulder width in Indian four-lane rural highways	3
Characterizing the effects of contributing factors on crash severity involving e-bicycles: a study based on police-reported data	3
The epidemiology and characteristics of injuries to under 5’s in a secondary city in Uganda: a retrospective review of hospital data	3
Rear-seat seatbelt use in urban Southeast Asia: results from Bandung and Bangkok	3

Road safety status during COVID-19 pandemic: exploring public and road safety expert’s opinions	3
Violence and non-fatal injuries among Vietnamese in-school adolescents: national prevalence estimates and associated factors	3
Injury severity analysis of two-vehicle crashes at unsignalized intersections using mixed logit models	3
Defining machine learning algorithms as accident prediction models for Italian two-lane rural, suburban, and urban roads	3
Home injuries in British Columbia: patterns across the deprivation spectrum	3
How do drunk-driving events escalate into drunk-driving crashes? An empirical analysis of Beijing from a spatiotemporal perspective	3
List of reviewers (2020-2021)	3
Can job stress, health status and risky driving behaviours predict the crash risk level of taxi drivers? New evidence from China	3
Factors associated with under- fives unintentional injuries in Kgalagadi South, Botswana	3
Analysis of driver-injury severity: a comparison between speeding and non-speeding driving crash accounting for temporal and unobserved effects	3
Speed heterogeneity and accident reduction in mixed traffic	3
Cell phone distraction behavior of young pedestrians: evidence from China	3
Co-location analysis of pedestrian accident attributes for Ankara	2
Pattern of road traffic fatalities in India: a case study of Chhattisgarh State	2
The effect of intervention programs on road traffic injury prevention among adolescents and young people: a systematic review	2
Meeting the challenge of the second decade of road safety: evidence supported by quality research	2
Hazardous traffic scenarios for motorcyclists in Indonesia: a comprehensive insight from police accident data and self-reports	2
Interventions to prevent road traffic injuries among pedestrians: a systematic review	2
Evaluation of the effectiveness of addition of road humps as a road safety intervention	2
The influence of childhood and early adult adversities on substance use behaviours in racial/ethnically diverse young adult women: a latent class analysis	2
Injury severity prediction of traffic crashes with ensemble machine learning techniques: a comparative study	2
The COVID-19 pandemic and changes in spatio-temporal patterns of suicide: monthly variations among localities in Argentina	2
Pedestrians safety perceptions on midblock crosswalk utilization along urban corridors of developing countries	2
Evaluating the crash risk of powered two-wheelers in urban mixed traffic environments: a conflict threshold perspective	2
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on road safety in Tamil Nadu, India	2
Construction of injury process from Japanese consumer product narrative injury data using an ontology-based method	2
Characteristics of pediatric emergency department visits for youth 10-15 years old with injuries due to interpersonal violence	2
Examining factors affecting driver injury severity in speeding-related crashes: a comparative study across driver age groups	2
A matched case–control approach to identify the risk factors of fatal pedestrian crashes on a six-lane rural highway in India	2
Motorcycle risky behaviours and road accidents among adolescents in Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	2
Injury, violence, and crime prevention at cultural male initiation schools in Giyani and Malamulele in Limpopo Province, South Africa	2
Clinical outcomes of patients with crush syndrome in the Kahramanmaras earthquake	2
Development of crash prediction models by assessing the role of perpetrators and victims: a comparison of ANN & logistic model using historical crash data	2
Fidelity of implementation of the building bridges mentoring intervention to prevent violence among youth in low income settings	2
Modeling crashes involving children, finite mixture cumulative link mixed model	2
Road traffic mortality in Iran: longitudinal trend and seasonal analysis, March 2011-February 2020	2
Factors affecting severe pedestrian crash percentages at intersections in Colorado 2006–2018	2
Monitoring road accident and injury using indeterminacy based Shewhart control chart using multiple dependent state repetitive sampling	2
Population-level estimate of bicycle use and fatality risk in a data-poor setting	2
Prevalence and patterns of helmet use among motorized two-wheelers: findings from a large observational study in an Indian metropolis	2
Renew global partnerships for addressing the risk to vulnerable road users and strengthening research institutions	2