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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysis of the regional distribution of road traffic mortality and associated factors in Japan	107
Adverse childhood experiences, child behavioral health needs, and family characteristics associated with the presence of a firearm in the home: a survey of parents in Chicago	38
Prevalence, risk factors and perceptions of caregivers on burns among children under 5 years in Kisenyi slum, Kampala, Uganda	28
Snakebites and resource utilization in pediatric urban and rural populations in the United States: 2016–2023	23
Understanding knowledge and approval for sociopolitical groups: results from the 2023 National Survey of Gun Policy	22
A firm recommendation: measuring the softness of infant sleep surfaces	18
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric dog bite injuries	17
A cross sectional study of non-medical use of prescription opioids and suicidal behaviors among adolescents	15
Relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and structural inequalities within the pediatric trauma population	14
Spatial de-concentration of fatal and nonfatal firearm violence in Boston, MA, 2007–2021	14
Changes in pediatric injuries sustained while engaged in activities where helmet usage is recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
The practice of lethal means restriction counseling in US emergency departments to reduce suicide risk: a systematic review of the literature	13
Child injuries in Lebanon: assessing mothers’ injury prevention knowledge attitude and practices	12
The influence of heatwaves on traffic safety in five cities across Québec with different thermal landscapes	11
ProjectDRIVE: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to improve driving practices of high-risk teen drivers with a traffic violation	11
Voluntary, temporary out-of-home firearm storage: a survey of law enforcement agencies in two states	11
Correction: A methodology for the public health surveillance and epidemiologic analysis of outdoor falls that require an emergency medical services response	11
Substance use in rural trauma patients admitted for motor vehicle injuries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Community partnership approaches to safe sleep (CPASS) program evaluation	11
Assessing improvements in emergency department referrals to a hospital-based violence intervention program	10
Individual, firearm, and purchasing characteristics associated with risk of firearm-related violent crime arrest: a nested case-control study	10
Stay-at-home, Safe at Home? A survey of parental home safety practices before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Pediatric patients with dog bites presenting to US children’s hospitals	10
Association of medical conditions and firearm suicide among legal handgun purchasers in California: a case–control study	10
Diabetes mellitus and hard braking events in older adult drivers	10

Cervical vertebral and spinal cord injuries in rollover occupants	9
Who discovers the firearm suicide decedent: an epidemiologic characterization of survivor-victims	9
Youth victim perspective: optimizing presentation of patient-reported outcomes in a violence intervention program	9
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	9
High peak drinking levels mediate the relation between impulsive personality and injury risk in emerging adults	8
Geography, rurality, and community distress: deaths due to suicide, alcohol-use, and drug-use among Colorado Veterans	8
Pivoting injury prevention efforts during a pandemic: results of an international survey	8
All-terrain vehicle exposure and the association of certified training on adolescent safety behaviors and crash experiences	8
State cannabis laws and cannabis positivity among fatally injured drivers	8
Racial and ethnic disparities of sudden unexpected infant death in large US cities: a descriptive epidemiological study	8
Measuring the hidden burden of violence: use of explicit and proxy codes in Minnesota injury hospitalizations, 2004–2014	8
Rural youth’s exposure to firearm violence and their attitudes regarding firearm safety measures	8
Two decades of nonfatal injury data: a scoping review of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program, 2001–2021	7
Trends in views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA, 2022–2024: findings from a nationally representative survey	7
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	7
Examining differences between mass, multiple, and single-victim homicides to inform prevention: findings from the National Violent Death Reporting System	7
Publisher Correction to: Time‑dependent suicide rates among Army soldiers returning from an Afghanistan/Iraq deployment, by military rank and component	7
Profiles of pregnant women encountering motor vehicle crashes in Taiwan, 2008–2017	7
Research needs related to firearm rights restoration	7
Prevalence and predictors of psychological distress following injury: findings from a prospective cohort study	7
Military community engagement to prevent firearm-related violence: adaptation of project safe guard for service members	7
Multi-site medical record review for validation of intentional self-harm coding in emergency departments	7
Social network size and endorsement of political violence in the US	7
Safe at home: prevention of pediatric unintentional injuries	7
An epidemiological study of unintentional pediatric firearm fatalities in the USA, 2009–2018	6
Neighborhood collective efficacy and environmental exposure to firearm homicide among a national sample of adolescents	6
A multicenter evaluation of pediatric emergency department injury visits during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Research utility and limitations of textual data in the National Violent Death Reporting System: a scoping review and recommendations	6
R2DRV: study protocol for longitudinal assessment of driving after mild TBI in young drivers	6
A joinpoint analysis examining trends in firearm injuries at six us trauma centers from 2016 to 2022	6
Cost-effectiveness analysis of a large-scale crèche intervention to prevent child drowning in rural Bangladesh	6
An intervention to improve safe firearm storage for adolescents presenting with suicide ideation or attempt in a pediatric emergency department	6
The association between county ordinances allowing off-road vehicles on public roads and crash rates	6
Evolution of the risk of death and hospitalisation in drivers involved in road crashes in spain, 1993–2020: an age-period-cohort analysis	6
Extortion experiences of recent adult immigrants from Latin America: self-reported prevalence, associated costs, and current mental health	6
They built this city—construction workers injured in Delhi, India: cross-sectional analysis of First Information Reports of the Delhi Police 2016–2018	6
Impact of standardization on racial and socioeconomic disparities in non-accidental trauma evaluations in infants in a pediatric emergency department	5
Pediatric firearm injury epidemiology at a level 1 trauma center from 2019 to 2021: including time of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Fatal and non-fatal firearm-related injuries in Canada, 2016–2020: a population-based study using three administrative databases	5
Development and implementation of an injury and illness surveillance system for team USA	5
Caregiver water safety knowledge and views of toddler water competency	5
Pediatric lawn mower-related injuries and contributing factors for bystander injuries	5
Neighborhood predictors of suicide and firearm suicide in Detroit, Michigan	5
Epidemiology of sudden death in organized school sports in Japan	5
Opioid-related polysubstance use and its effect on mortality and health resource utilization among trauma patients	5
What factors impact pedestrian and cyclist fatalities? A state level analysis	5
Storage of firearms in vehicles: findings from a sample of firearm owners in nine U.S. states	5
A multi-state evaluation of extreme risk protection orders: a research protocol	5
Pediatric outdoor recreational injuries: another hidden concern during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
CHASE (Children’s Housing Assessment for a Safe Environment): a protocol for the inspection and modification of injury risks in children’s homes	4

Impact of cable lock distribution on firearm securement after emergent mental health evaluation: a randomized controlled trial	4
Principles of musculoskeletal sport injuries for epidemiologists: a review	4
Drowning is fast, silent, and preventable: a Texas example of research in action	4
Application of data linkage techniques to Pacific Northwest commercial fishing injury and fatality data	4
Self-harm emergency department visits in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a sentinel surveillance system	4
Survivor perspectives on research priorities for assessing mental health outcomes after school shootings: a qualitative study	4
Effect of orthopaedic resident education on screening for intimate partner violence	4
Pre- and postnatal safe sleep knowledge and planned as compared to actual infant sleep practices	4
The epidemiology of firework-related injuries in the US, 2012–2022	4
Racial and incident discrepancies in news media reporting of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID)	4
Changes in suicide in California from 2017 to 2021: a population-based study	4
Connecticut providers knowledge and attitudes towards use of extreme risk protection orders	3
Occupational burn injuries in Finland 2011–2015	3
A web-based prospective cohort study of home, leisure, school and sports injuries in France: a descriptive analysis	3
Psychological distress 12 years following injury in New Zealand: findings from the Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study-10 years on (POIS-10)	3
Colorado’s first year of extreme risk protection orders	3
Expectations of and perceived need for civil war in the USA: findings from a 2023 nationally representative survey	3
Recreational off-highway vehicle exposure, safety behaviors and crash experiences among adolescents	3
Using data fusion with multiple imputation to correct for misclassification in self-reported exposure: a case-control study of cannabis use and homicide victimization	3
Protocolized abuse screening to decrease provider bias and increase capture of potential events	3
Non-fatal senior pickleball and tennis-related injuries treated in United States emergency departments, 2010–2019	3
Characteristics and neighborhood-level opportunity of assault-injured children in Milwaukee	3
Structural racism and intimate partner violence perpetration among racially diverse men transitioning into fatherhood: an anti-racist approach to IPV prevention	3
The Advancing Understanding of Transportation Options (AUTO) study: design and methods of a multi-center study of decision aid for older drivers	3
Women Veterans’ experiences discussing household firearms with their intimate partners: collaborative, devalued, and deferential relational types	3
Weapon use during the index offense: a study among forensic psychiatry patients in Ontario, Canada	3
Rural adolescent attitudes and use of helmets while riding ATVs, motorcycles and dirt bikes	3
A descriptive and comparative analysis of injuries reported in USA Cycling-sanctioned competitive road cycling events	3
Accuracy of the national violent death reporting system in identifying unintentional firearm deaths to children by children	3
Epidemiology of traumatic cervical spinal fractures in a general Norwegian population	3
Ambient air pollution and the risk of violence in primary and secondary school settings: a cross-sectional study	3
COVID-19-related violence trend data challenges & a resource for injury researchers	3
The contributions of injury deaths to the gender gap in life expectancy and life disparity in Eastern Mediterranean Region	3
Reducing fall injuries with better data	3
Epidemiology of adult trauma injuries in Malawi: results from a multisite trauma registry	3
Impact of COVID-related policies on gunshot wound assault hospitalizations in the United States: a statewide time series analysis	3
Firearm locking device preferences among firearm owners in the USA: a systematic review	3
The dark side of nighttime all-terrain vehicle use	3
“You wished the ground would open and swallow you up”: Expert opinions on shame, the collective, and other cultural considerations for suicide prevention among Asian American and Pacific Islander vete	3
Evaluation of a prison violence prevention program: impacts on violent and non-violent prison infractions	2
Using EMS data to explore community-level factors associated with firearm violence in North Carolina	2
Understanding co-production of injury research in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: a comprehensive scoping review	2
Effects of implementing permissive campus carry laws on rates of major violence at public colleges and universities	2
Functional limitations and firearm purchases among low-income U.S. military veterans	2
Gun violence and the voices of youth on community safety in the time of COVID-19 in East Harlem, NY: a youth participatory action research cross-sectional study	2
Clinical strategies for reducing firearm suicide	2
Protect Our Kids: a novel program bringing hemorrhage control to schools	2
Utilizing Haddon matrix to assess nonfatal commercial fishing injury factors in Oregon and Washington	2
Therapeutic errors involving diabetes medications reported to United States poison centers	2
A systematic review of demographic and background factors associated with the development of children’s aquatic competence	2
Evaluating an urban pediatric hospital’s scald burn prevention program	2
Unlicensed driving among young drivers in North Carolina: a quasi-induced exposure analysis	2
Gun violence against unhoused and unstably housed women: A cross-sectional study that highlights links to childhood violence	2
Pediatric trauma burden in Tanzania: analysis of prospective registry data from thirteen health facilities	2
Ghost guns and crime: a tale of two California cities	2
Driving contradictions: behaviors and attitudes regarding handheld and hands-free cellphone use while driving among young drivers	2
American Indian and Alaska Native violence prevention efforts: a systematic review, 1980 to 2018	2
Epidemiology of maxillofacial injury among adults in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	2
Firework-related injuries treated at emergency departments in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 compared to 2018–2019	2
A content analysis of the Orbeez® Gel Blaster injury challenge on TikTok	2
Factors associated with discharge destination from acute care after moderate-to-severe traumatic injuries in Norway: a prospective population-based study	2