OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Injury Epidemiology is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric dog bite injuries	31
Built and social environment characteristics associated with motorcyclist mortality in Latin American cities from the SALURBAL study	19
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	18
Understanding knowledge and approval for sociopolitical groups: results from the 2023 National Survey of Gun Policy	17
Firearm safe storage practices among firearm owners in rural and urban households	17
Snakebites and resource utilization in pediatric urban and rural populations in the United States: 2016–2023	16
Changes in pediatric injuries sustained while engaged in activities where helmet usage is recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Prevalence, risk factors and perceptions of caregivers on burns among children under 5 years in Kisenyi slum, Kampala, Uganda	14
Individual, firearm, and purchasing characteristics associated with risk of firearm-related violent crime arrest: a nested case-control study	14
Pediatric hospital visits for unintentional drowning in bathtubs in Central Texas, USA	13
The influence of heatwaves on traffic safety in five cities across Québec with different thermal landscapes	13
Substance use in rural trauma patients admitted for motor vehicle injuries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
ProjectDRIVE: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to improve driving practices of high-risk teen drivers with a traffic violation	12
Correction: A methodology for the public health surveillance and epidemiologic analysis of outdoor falls that require an emergency medical services response	12
Community partnership approaches to safe sleep (CPASS) program evaluation	12
Spatial de-concentration of fatal and nonfatal firearm violence in Boston, MA, 2007–2021	11
Relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and structural inequalities within the pediatric trauma population	11
Child injuries in Lebanon: assessing mothers’ injury prevention knowledge attitude and practices	11
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
Stay-at-home, Safe at Home? A survey of parental home safety practices before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Voluntary, temporary out-of-home firearm storage: a survey of law enforcement agencies in two states	10
Injury patterns and seat belt effectiveness in pregnant motor vehicle occupants: evidence from US crash data, 1998–2021	10
The impact of COVID-19 and public health measures on homicide and suicide trends in Botswana using an interrupted time series analysis	10
The status of drowning prevention and control in the region of the Americas	9

Who discovers the firearm suicide decedent: an epidemiologic characterization of survivor-victims	9
All-terrain vehicle exposure and the association of certified training on adolescent safety behaviors and crash experiences	9
Youth victim perspective: optimizing presentation of patient-reported outcomes in a violence intervention program	9
Racial and ethnic disparities of sudden unexpected infant death in large US cities: a descriptive epidemiological study	8
Pivoting injury prevention efforts during a pandemic: results of an international survey	8
Geography, rurality, and community distress: deaths due to suicide, alcohol-use, and drug-use among Colorado Veterans	8
Cervical vertebral and spinal cord injuries in rollover occupants	8
High peak drinking levels mediate the relation between impulsive personality and injury risk in emerging adults	8
Trends in views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA, 2022–2024: findings from a nationally representative survey	8
Can place of death at home be used as a proxy for suicide at home? A record linkage study	8
Patterns and characteristics of firearm thefts from vehicles in San Antonio, Texas	8
Measuring the hidden burden of violence: use of explicit and proxy codes in Minnesota injury hospitalizations, 2004–2014	8
Nonfatal injury emergency department visits and inpatient hospitalizations among persons under age 65 with an intellectual and developmental disability or deaf or hard of hearing disability	8
Publisher Correction to: Time‑dependent suicide rates among Army soldiers returning from an Afghanistan/Iraq deployment, by military rank and component	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
Military community engagement to prevent firearm-related violence: adaptation of project safe guard for service members	7
State cannabis laws and cannabis positivity among fatally injured drivers	7
Two decades of nonfatal injury data: a scoping review of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program, 2001–2021	7
Profiles of pregnant women encountering motor vehicle crashes in Taiwan, 2008–2017	7
Research needs related to firearm rights restoration	7
Safe at home: prevention of pediatric unintentional injuries	6
Vehicle traffic as a determinant of community firearm violence	6
A joinpoint analysis examining trends in firearm injuries at six us trauma centers from 2016 to 2022	6
Geospatial estimates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt prevalence in the U.S. veteran population (2022)	6
R2DRV: study protocol for longitudinal assessment of driving after mild TBI in young drivers	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
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
The association between remoteness of injury and in-hospital mortality for motor vehicle collision major trauma patients: evidence of survivor bias in an analysis of registry data	6
Perceived neighborhood crime and gun carrying behavior: examining the role of a history of traumatic brain injury	5
Extortion experiences of recent adult immigrants from Latin America: self-reported prevalence, associated costs, and current mental health	5
Neighborhood predictors of suicide and firearm suicide in Detroit, Michigan	5
Impact of standardization on racial and socioeconomic disparities in non-accidental trauma evaluations in infants in a pediatric emergency department	5
Pediatric lawn mower-related injuries and contributing factors for bystander injuries	5
Pre- and postnatal safe sleep knowledge and planned as compared to actual infant sleep practices	5
Extreme risk protection order use in six US states: a descriptive study	5
A multicenter evaluation of pediatric emergency department injury visits during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Evolution of the risk of death and hospitalisation in drivers involved in road crashes in spain, 1993–2020: an age-period-cohort analysis	5
Fatal and non-fatal firearm-related injuries in Canada, 2016–2020: a population-based study using three administrative databases	5
Storage of firearms in vehicles: findings from a sample of firearm owners in nine U.S. states	5
Association of prior criminal charges and convictions with subsequent violent and firearm-related crime: a retrospective cohort study	5
Caregiver water safety knowledge and views of toddler water competency	5
A multi-state evaluation of extreme risk protection orders: a research protocol	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
Research utility and limitations of textual data in the National Violent Death Reporting System: a scoping review and recommendations	5
Development and implementation of an injury and illness surveillance system for team USA	5
Pediatric firearm injury epidemiology at a level 1 trauma center from 2019 to 2021: including time of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Opioid-related polysubstance use and its effect on mortality and health resource utilization among trauma patients	5

Rural adolescent attitudes and use of bicycle helmets in Iowa