OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Safety Research is 31. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Safety assurance for automated systems in transport: A collective case study of real-world fatal crashes	127
Comparing the perceptions of ethnic minority construction workers and management staff on the factors affecting safety communications	79
Crisis communication in construction: Organizational strategies for worksite fatalities	69
Trust but verify: The biasing effects of witness opinions and background knowledge in workplace investigations	69
Differences between managers’ and safety professionals’ perceptions of upwards influence attempts within safety practice	64
Sport participation and injury rates in high school students: A Canadian survey of 2029 adolescents	63
A multinomial logit model: Safety risk analysis of interchange area based on aggregate driving behavior data	55
A biomechanical evaluation of firefighters’ musculoskeletal loads when carrying self-contained breathing apparatus in walking and running	55
Improving the usability of large emergency 911 data reporting systems: A machine learning case study using emergency incident descriptions	53
Are out-of-state drivers more seatbelt compliant than in-state drivers in the United States?	52
Do employees’ work schedules put them at-risk? The role of shift scheduling and holidays in predicting near miss and incident likelihood	51
Exploring the association between quantified road safety target attributes and their success: An empirical analysis from OECD countries using panel data	48
Assessing the relationship between driving skill, driving stress, and driving behavior	47
Inclusion of phone use while driving data in predicting distraction-affected crashes	45
Statistical analysis of the severity of occupational accidents in the mining sector	44
Vehicle-Pedestrian near miss analysis at signalized mid-block crossings	43
Risky scenario identification in a risk perception scale for construction workers in Thailand	41
Assessing the determinants of crash propensity using structural equation modeling: Role of distractions caused by fellow drivers	40
Analyzing the factors influencing speeding behavior based on quasi-induced exposure and random parameter logit model with heterogeneity in means	39
Traumatic workplace injuries: A cross-sectional analysis of OSHA severe injury reports, including the impacts of seasonality and COVID-19 from 2015 to 2022	39
Assessment of different pedestrian communication strategies for improving driver behavior at marked crosswalks on free channelized right turns	39
It’s not a hard and fast rule: A qualitative investigation into factors influencing speeding among young drivers	38
Fall- and collision-related injuries among pedestrians in road traffic environment – A Swedish national register-based study	38
Seasonal variation in fall-related emergency department visits by location of fall – United States, 2015	36
Analysis of prevention through design studies in construction: A subject review	36

Editorial Board	34
Unraveling the drivers of spatial (in)equity in bicycle crashes across four U.S. cities	33
Exploring parental risk perception regarding childhood unintentional home injuries: A cross-sectional study	32
The effect of punishment and feedback on correcting erroneous behavior	32
Investigating the factors behind cellphone-distracted crashes: Assessing injury severity among distracted drivers in states with and without cell phone bans	31
Prediction and interpretation of crash severity using machine learning based on imbalanced traffic crash data	31
A review of research on driving distraction based on bibliometrics and co-occurrence: Focus on driving distraction recognition methods	31