OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Injury Epidemiology 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study	79
Neighborhood disadvantage and firearm injury: does shooting location matter?	26
Medication use and driving patterns in older drivers: preliminary findings from the LongROAD study	20
The role of domestic violence in fatal mass shootings in the United States, 2014–2019	20
Patterns of alcohol and drug utilization in trauma patients during the COVID-19 pandemic at six trauma centers	17
Large-scale evaluation of interventions designed to reduce childhood Drownings in rural Bangladesh: a before and after cohort study	15
The changing epidemiology of dog bite injuries in the United States, 2005–2018	15
Impact of ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM coding transition on trauma hospitalization trends among young adults in 12 states	14
The color of risk protection orders: gun violence, gun laws, and racial justice	14
National survey of home injuries during the time of COVID-19: who is at risk?	13
Extreme risk protection orders in King County, Washington: the epidemiology of dangerous behaviors and an intervention response	12
The mechanism and pattern of injuries of undocumented immigrants crossing the Texas-Mexico border along the Rio Grande Valley	12
The burden of injuries in Ethiopia from 1990-2017: evidence from the global burden of disease study	12
The practice of lethal means restriction counseling in US emergency departments to reduce suicide risk: a systematic review of the literature	11
Epidemiology of traumatic cervical spinal fractures in a general Norwegian population	11
Characteristics of traumatic brain injury patients with abnormal neuroimaging in Southeast Norway	11
Are high school girls’ lacrosse players at increased risk of concussion because they are not allowed to wear the same helmet boys’ lacrosse players are required to wear?	10
Examining differences between mass, multiple, and single-victim homicides to inform prevention: findings from the National Violent Death Reporting System	10
Experiences of violence in daily life among adults in California: a population-representative survey	10
Athlete availability and incidence of overuse injuries over an athletics season in a cohort of elite Swedish athletics athletes - a prospective study	10
US children of minority race are less likely to be admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit after traumatic injury, a retrospective analysis of a single pediatric trauma center	10
Epidemiology of sudden death in organized school sports in Japan	10
Risk of suicide among U.S. veterans who deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn	9
Associations between biomechanical and clinical/anthropometrical factors and running-related injuries among recreational runners: a 52-week prospective cohort study	9
Trends in deaths from road injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, January to September 2020	8

An emergency department medical record review for adolescent intentional self-harm injuries	8
Factors contributing to longer length of stay in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children hospitalised for burn injury	8
Barriers to recruitment, retention and intervention delivery in a randomized trial among patients with firearm injuries	8
COVID-19-related violence trend data challenges & a resource for injury researchers	8
Non-fatal senior pickleball and tennis-related injuries treated in United States emergency departments, 2010–2019	8
An epidemiologic comparison of acute and overuse injuries in high school sports	8
Burn injuries related to E-cigarettes reported to poison control centers in the United States, 2010–2019	7
Cellphone laws and teens’ calling while driving: analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019	7
Characteristics and patterns of older adult homicides in the United States	7
Rideshare use among parents and their children	7
Racial and ethnic disparities of sudden unexpected infant death in large US cities: a descriptive epidemiological study	7
Direct and indirect effects of marijuana use on the risk of fatal 2-vehicle crash initiation	7
Measuring gun violence in police data sources: transitioning to NIBRS	6
Firework-related injuries treated at emergency departments in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 compared to 2018–2019	6
Colorado’s first year of extreme risk protection orders	6
Attitudes and perceived barriers to firearm safety anticipatory guidance by pediatricians: a statewide perspective	6
Clinical strategies for reducing firearm suicide	6
Mild traumatic brain injury/concussion and female sexuality, a scoping review of the literature	6
The effect of the lockdown executive order during the COVID-19 pandemic in recent trauma admissions in Puerto Rico	6
Efficacy of a mobile technology-based intervention for increasing parents’ safety knowledge and actions: a randomized controlled trial	6
A pilot QI primary care practice program to help reduce infant mortality risks	6
Prevalence and predictors of psychological distress following injury: findings from a prospective cohort study	6
The risks of warm nights and wet days in the context of climate change: assessing road safety outcomes in Boston, USA and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	6
Guns, violence, politics: the gyre widens	6
Pediatric patients with dog bites presenting to US children’s hospitals	6
Sports and non-sports-related concussions among Medicaid-insured children: health care utilization before and after Ohio’s concussion law	6
Disparities in triage and management of the homeless and the elderly trauma patient	5
Expansion of a multi-pronged safe sleep quality improvement initiative to three children’s hospital campuses	5
Racial disparities in mortality after severe traumatic brain injury in childhood: mediators identified by Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of trauma registry data	5
Life experiences associated with change in perpetration of domestic violence	5
Neighborhood variation in unsolved homicides: a retrospective cohort study in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2007–2017	5
Parental attitudes and family helmet use for all-terrain vehicles and bicycles	5
Evaluating an urban pediatric hospital’s scald burn prevention program	5
Associations between state intimate partner violence-related firearm policies and injuries among women and men who experience intimate partner violence	5
Measuring the effectiveness of a car seat program in an urban, level one pediatric trauma center	5
Evaluating the effectiveness of traumatic brain injury state laws among high school athletes	5
Bike helmets prevent pediatric head injury in serious bicycle crashes with motor vehicles	5
Effect of lock boxes and education on safe storage of medications	5
Absolute versus relative socioeconomic disadvantage and homicide: a spatial ecological case–control study of US zip codes	5
Analysis of the regional distribution of road traffic mortality and associated factors in Japan	5
Geospatial characteristics of non-motor vehicle and assault-related trauma events in greater Phoenix, Arizona	5
A comparison and analysis of seven gun law permissiveness scales	5
Descriptive epidemiology of injuries in Japanese collegiate men’s basketball: 2013/2014 to 2019/2020	5
Interrupted time series design to evaluate ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM coding changes on trends in Colorado emergency department visits related to traumatic brain injury	5
Optimizing smoke alarm signals: Testing the effectiveness of children’s smoke alarms for sleeping adults	5
Public health critical race praxis at the intersection of traffic stops and injury epidemiology	5
The dark side of nighttime all-terrain vehicle use	5
Ghost guns: spookier than you think they are	4
A methodology for the public health surveillance and epidemiologic analysis of outdoor falls that require an emergency medical services response	4
Using hospitalization data for injury surveillance in agriculture, forestry and fishing: a crosswalk between ICD10CM external cause of injury coding and The Occupational Injury and Illness Classificat	4

Application of data linkage techniques to Pacific Northwest commercial fishing injury and fatality data	4
Recreational off-highway vehicle crashes resulting in victims being treated at a regional trauma center: mechanisms and contributing factors	4
Pediatric trauma burden in Tanzania: analysis of prospective registry data from thirteen health facilities	4
Prevalence, risk factors and perceptions of caregivers on burns among children under 5 years in Kisenyi slum, Kampala, Uganda	4
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pediatric emergency department: a single institution experience	4
Associations between traumatic event experiences, psychiatric disorders, and suicidal behavior in the general population of Afghanistan: findings from Afghan National Mental Health Survey	4
The association between weather and the number of daily shootings in Chicago (2012–2016)	4
Pediatric suicide by violent means: a cry for help and a call for action	4
Time-dependent suicide rates among Army soldiers returning from an Afghanistan/Iraq deployment, by military rank and component	4
Multi-site medical record review for validation of intentional self-harm coding in emergency departments	4
Driving contradictions: behaviors and attitudes regarding handheld and hands-free cellphone use while driving among young drivers	4
Cohort study of medical cannabis authorization and motor vehicle crash-related healthcare visits in 2014–2017 in Ontario, Canada	4
Estimating the health burden of road traffic injuries in Malawi using an individual-based model	4
Furniture and television tip-over injuries to children treated in United States emergency departments	4
They built this city—construction workers injured in Delhi, India: cross-sectional analysis of First Information Reports of the Delhi Police 2016–2018	4
Epidemiology of traumatic falls after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico	3
Perceptions of health providers towards the use of standardised trauma form in managing trauma patients: a qualitative study from Tanzania	3
Handgun purchasing characteristics and firearm suicide risk: a nested case–control study	3
Child passenger safety education in the emergency department: teen driving, car seats, booster seats, and more	3
The Advancing Understanding of Transportation Options (AUTO) study: design and methods of a multi-center study of decision aid for older drivers	3
An epidemiological study of unintentional pediatric firearm fatalities in the USA, 2009–2018	3
Trends in shaken baby syndrome diagnosis codes among young children hospitalized for abuse	3
Serious sports-related injury in England and Wales from 2012-2017: a study protocol	3
Health care utilisation for treatment of injuries among immigrants in Norway: a nationwide register linkage study	3
Impact of COVID-related policies on gunshot wound assault hospitalizations in the United States: a statewide time series analysis	3
Personal protective eyewear usage among industrial workers in small-scale enterprises	3
Temporal trend of research related to gun violence from 1981 to 2018 in the United States: a bibliometric analysis	3
Effect of wearing a helmet on the occurrence of head injuries in motorcycle riders in Benin: a case-control study	3
Defensive gun use: What can we learn from news reports?	3
Mechanisms of accidental fall injuries and involved injury factors: a registry-based study	3
Playground equipment-related extremity fractures in children presenting to US emergency departments, 2006–2016	3
Epidemiology of adult trauma injuries in Malawi: results from a multisite trauma registry	3
Mapping disparities in homicide trends across Brazil: 2000–2014	3
Effect of Stay-at-Home orders and other COVID-related policies on trauma hospitalization rates and disparities in the USA: a statewide time-series analysis	3
Protect Our Kids: a novel program bringing hemorrhage control to schools	2
Time to definitive care among severely injured farmers compared to other work-related injuries in a Midwestern state	2
Patterns of handgun divestment among handgun owners in California	2
Using Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES) to examine injury in front vs. rear-seated infants and children involved in a motor vehicle crash in New York State	2
Epidemiology of pediatric trauma in the Kingdom of Bahrain: a national pediatric trauma registry pilot study	2
The descriptive epidemiology of brand-specific gun ownership in the US: results from the 2019 National Lawful Use of Guns Survey	2
An intervention to improve safe firearm storage for adolescents presenting with suicide ideation or attempt in a pediatric emergency department	2
Changes in pediatric injuries sustained while engaged in activities where helmet usage is recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Hand and wrist injuries among collegiate athletes vary with athlete division	2
The time is now: why we must identify and address health disparities in sport and recreation injury	2
The contributions of injury deaths to the gender gap in life expectancy and life disparity in Eastern Mediterranean Region	2
Rural youth’s exposure to firearm violence and their attitudes regarding firearm safety measures	2
Differentiating Black and Hispanic: outcome differences of segregated communities and police shootings in the USA, 2015–2020	2
Criminal charge history, handgun purchasing, and demographic characteristics of legal handgun purchasers in California	2
A web-based prospective cohort study of home, leisure, school and sports injuries in France: a descriptive analysis	2
Characterization of fatal injuries in oil and gas industry-related helicopter accidents in the Gulf of Mexico, 2004–2014	2
Substance use in rural trauma patients admitted for motor vehicle injuries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Educational achievement and youth homicide mortality: a City-wide, neighborhood-based analysis	2
National Estimates of hospital emergency department visits due to acute injuries associated with hookah smoking, United States, 2011–2019	2
Perceptions of implementation of Massachusetts sports concussion regulations: results of a survey of athletic directors	2
Self-harm emergency department visits in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a sentinel surveillance system	2
Measuring the hidden burden of violence: use of explicit and proxy codes in Minnesota injury hospitalizations, 2004–2014	2
Development of a scale to measure expected concussion reporting behavior	2
Characteristics of criminal cases against physicians charged with opioid-related offenses reported in the US news media, 1995–2019	2
Assessing improvements in emergency department referrals to a hospital-based violence intervention program	2
Impact of caregiver swimming capability on perceptions of swimming pool supervision of toddlers	2
Evaluation of a mobile safety center's impact on pediatric home safety knowledge and device use	2
Oral contraceptive use and anterior cruciate ligament injury: comparison of active comparator new user cohort and case-control study designs	2
Approaching community priorities in youth sports injury prevention research	2