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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study	93
Neighborhood disadvantage and firearm injury: does shooting location matter?	39
The role of domestic violence in fatal mass shootings in the United States, 2014–2019	28
Patterns of alcohol and drug utilization in trauma patients during the COVID-19 pandemic at six trauma centers	21
The changing epidemiology of dog bite injuries in the United States, 2005–2018	21
Non-fatal senior pickleball and tennis-related injuries treated in United States emergency departments, 2010–2019	19
The mechanism and pattern of injuries of undocumented immigrants crossing the Texas-Mexico border along the Rio Grande Valley	19
Epidemiology of traumatic cervical spinal fractures in a general Norwegian population	17
Experiences of violence in daily life among adults in California: a population-representative survey	14
The burden of injuries in Ethiopia from 1990-2017: evidence from the global burden of disease study	14
National survey of home injuries during the time of COVID-19: who is at risk?	14
Impact of ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM coding transition on trauma hospitalization trends among young adults in 12 states	14
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	13
An epidemiologic comparison of acute and overuse injuries in high school sports	12
The practice of lethal means restriction counseling in US emergency departments to reduce suicide risk: a systematic review of the literature	12
Risk of suicide among U.S. veterans who deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn	11
Examining differences between mass, multiple, and single-victim homicides to inform prevention: findings from the National Violent Death Reporting System	11
Trends in deaths from road injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, January to September 2020	10
Descriptive epidemiology of injuries in Japanese collegiate men’s basketball: 2013/2014 to 2019/2020	10
Clinical strategies for reducing firearm suicide	10
Racial and ethnic disparities of sudden unexpected infant death in large US cities: a descriptive epidemiological study	10
An emergency department medical record review for adolescent intentional self-harm injuries	10
Colorado’s first year of extreme risk protection orders	10
Epidemiology of sudden death in organized school sports in Japan	10
COVID-19-related violence trend data challenges & a resource for injury researchers	9

Cellphone laws and teens’ calling while driving: analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019	9
Epidemiology of adult trauma injuries in Malawi: results from a multisite trauma registry	8
Attitudes and perceived barriers to firearm safety anticipatory guidance by pediatricians: a statewide perspective	8
Time-dependent suicide rates among Army soldiers returning from an Afghanistan/Iraq deployment, by military rank and component	8
A methodology for the public health surveillance and epidemiologic analysis of outdoor falls that require an emergency medical services response	8
Barriers to recruitment, retention and intervention delivery in a randomized trial among patients with firearm injuries	8
Pediatric trauma burden in Tanzania: analysis of prospective registry data from thirteen health facilities	8
Rideshare use among parents and their children	8
Characteristics and patterns of older adult homicides in the United States	8
Pediatric patients with dog bites presenting to US children’s hospitals	8
Neighborhood variation in unsolved homicides: a retrospective cohort study in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2007–2017	8
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	8
Guns, violence, politics: the gyre widens	8
A comparison and analysis of seven gun law permissiveness scales	8
Multi-site medical record review for validation of intentional self-harm coding in emergency departments	7
Absolute versus relative socioeconomic disadvantage and homicide: a spatial ecological case–control study of US zip codes	7
Firework-related injuries treated at emergency departments in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 compared to 2018–2019	7
The effect of the lockdown executive order during the COVID-19 pandemic in recent trauma admissions in Puerto Rico	7
Sports and non-sports-related concussions among Medicaid-insured children: health care utilization before and after Ohio’s concussion law	7
The dark side of nighttime all-terrain vehicle use	7
Racial disparities in mortality after severe traumatic brain injury in childhood: mediators identified by Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of trauma registry data	7
Firearm locking device preferences among firearm owners in the USA: a systematic review	7
Associations between traumatic event experiences, psychiatric disorders, and suicidal behavior in the general population of Afghanistan: findings from Afghan National Mental Health Survey	6
Estimating the health burden of road traffic injuries in Malawi using an individual-based model	6
Prevalence and predictors of psychological distress following injury: findings from a prospective cohort study	6
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pediatric emergency department: a single institution experience	6
Efficacy of a mobile technology-based intervention for increasing parents’ safety knowledge and actions: a randomized controlled trial	6
Prevalence, risk factors and perceptions of caregivers on burns among children under 5 years in Kisenyi slum, Kampala, Uganda	6
Measuring the effectiveness of a car seat program in an urban, level one pediatric trauma center	6
Views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA: findings from a nationally representative survey	6
The burden of firearm injuries on the hospital system, 2000–2020	6
Measuring gun violence in police data sources: transitioning to NIBRS	6
The Advancing Understanding of Transportation Options (AUTO) study: design and methods of a multi-center study of decision aid for older drivers	5
Effect of wearing a helmet on the occurrence of head injuries in motorcycle riders in Benin: a case-control study	5
Ghost guns: spookier than you think they are	5
Rural youth’s exposure to firearm violence and their attitudes regarding firearm safety measures	5
Impact of COVID-related policies on gunshot wound assault hospitalizations in the United States: a statewide time series analysis	5
Factors associated with discharge destination from acute care after moderate-to-severe traumatic injuries in Norway: a prospective population-based study	5
Pediatric suicide by violent means: a cry for help and a call for action	5
Analysis of the regional distribution of road traffic mortality and associated factors in Japan	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
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	5
Size matters: How safety climate and downstream outcomes vary by fire department organization type	5
Public health critical race praxis at the intersection of traffic stops and injury epidemiology	5
They built this city—construction workers injured in Delhi, India: cross-sectional analysis of First Information Reports of the Delhi Police 2016–2018	5
An epidemiological study of unintentional pediatric firearm fatalities in the USA, 2009–2018	5
Self-harm emergency department visits in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a sentinel surveillance system	5
Differentiating Black and Hispanic: outcome differences of segregated communities and police shootings in the USA, 2015–2020	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

Defensive gun use: What can we learn from news reports?	4
Cohort study of medical cannabis authorization and motor vehicle crash-related healthcare visits in 2014–2017 in Ontario, Canada	4
Furniture and television tip-over injuries to children treated in United States emergency departments	4
Your neighborhood matters: an ecological social determinant study of the relationship between residential racial segregation and the risk of firearm fatalities	4
Driving contradictions: behaviors and attitudes regarding handheld and hands-free cellphone use while driving among young drivers	4
Application of data linkage techniques to Pacific Northwest commercial fishing injury and fatality data	4
Substance use in rural trauma patients admitted for motor vehicle injuries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The time is now: why we must identify and address health disparities in sport and recreation injury	4
Association between traumatic brain injury and mental health care utilization: evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey	4
Temporal trends in occupational injuries treated in US emergency departments, 2012–2019	4
Dual public health crises: the overlap of drug overdose and firearm injury in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2018–2020	4
Criminal charge history, handgun purchasing, and demographic characteristics of legal handgun purchasers in California	3
Musculoskeletal injuries sustained at the California, USA: Baja California, Mexico border	3
Voluntary, temporary out-of-home firearm storage: a survey of law enforcement agencies in two states	3
Interactions at the point of firearm purchase and subsequent use of locking devices	3
Trends in shaken baby syndrome diagnosis codes among young children hospitalized for abuse	3
Handgun purchasing characteristics and firearm suicide risk: a nested case–control study	3
The association between permit-to-purchase laws and shootings by police	3
Research utility and limitations of textual data in the National Violent Death Reporting System: a scoping review and recommendations	3
An intervention to improve safe firearm storage for adolescents presenting with suicide ideation or attempt in a pediatric emergency department	3
Hand and wrist injuries among collegiate athletes vary with athlete division	3
Epidemiology of maxillofacial injury among adults in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	3
Protect Our Kids: a novel program bringing hemorrhage control to schools	3
Development of a scale to measure expected concussion reporting behavior	3
Neighborhood risk factors for sports and recreational injuries: a systematic review of studies applying multilevel modeling techniques	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
Characterization of fatal injuries in oil and gas industry-related helicopter accidents in the Gulf of Mexico, 2004–2014	3
A systematic review of demographic and background factors associated with the development of children’s aquatic competence	3
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	3
Parental attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to firearm storage: a qualitative study	2
Measuring the hidden burden of violence: use of explicit and proxy codes in Minnesota injury hospitalizations, 2004–2014	2
Implementation and initial evaluation of falls risk reduction resources in a rural Native American Community	2
Pre- and postnatal safe sleep knowledge and planned as compared to actual infant sleep practices	2
Misclassification of firearm-related violent crime in criminal legal system records: challenges and opportunities	2
Assessing improvements in emergency department referrals to a hospital-based violence intervention program	2
Relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and structural inequalities within the pediatric trauma population	2
Impact of caregiver swimming capability on perceptions of swimming pool supervision of toddlers	2
Changes in pediatric injuries sustained while engaged in activities where helmet usage is recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Two decades of nonfatal injury data: a scoping review of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program, 2001–2021	2
The contributions of injury deaths to the gender gap in life expectancy and life disparity in Eastern Mediterranean Region	2
Patterns of handgun divestment among handgun owners in California	2
Health care utilisation for treatment of injuries among immigrants in Norway: a nationwide register linkage study	2
Evaluation of the national sobriety checkpoints program in Mexico: a difference-in-difference approach with variation in timing of program adoption	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
Child injuries in Lebanon: assessing mothers’ injury prevention knowledge attitude and practices	2
The effectiveness of value-based messages to engage gun owners on firearm policies: a three-stage nested study	2
Principles of musculoskeletal sport injuries for epidemiologists: a review	2
Purchaser, firearm, and retailer characteristics associated with crime gun recovery: a longitudinal analysis of firearms sold in California from 1996 to 2021	2
The epidemiology of firework-related injuries in the US, 2012–2022	2
Pediatric outdoor recreational injuries: another hidden concern during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Women Veterans’ experiences discussing household firearms with their intimate partners: collaborative, devalued, and deferential relational types	2
Opioid-related polysubstance use and its effect on mortality and health resource utilization among trauma patients	2
A web-based prospective cohort study of home, leisure, school and sports injuries in France: a descriptive analysis	2
Trauma-related falls in an urban geriatric population: predictive risk factors for poorer clinical outcomes	2
Cost-effectiveness analysis of a large-scale crèche intervention to prevent child drowning in rural Bangladesh	2
Perception and awareness of unintentional childhood injuries among primary caregivers of children in Vellore, South India: a community-based cross-sectional study using photo-elicitation method	2
Engaging stakeholders to develop a suicide prevention learning module for Louisiana firearm training courses	2