OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Safety Science is 50. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Facing the “During” phase in crisis management: An incremental adaptive launching process	144
A comparative study of management safety justice in Sub-Sahara Africa	113
Modelling a major maritime disaster scenario using the universal modelling framework for sequential decisions	112
Private entity perspective in cost-benefit analysis of safety interventions for passenger ships and the importance of indirect costs – A critical literature review	109
Effectiveness of OHSAS 18001 in reducing accidents at work. A follow-up study of 13,102 workplaces	108
Enhanced safety in complex socio-technical systems via safety-in-cohesion	107
Safety through engaged workers: The link between Safety-II and work engagement	105
Co-creation of risk in evacuation settings A risk governance approach to natural hazards risks	98
Mineworkers’ perspective of fatigue: A study of the Ghanaian mining industry	94
Experimental study of pedestrian movement characteristics on stairways under flooding emergencies	85
Integrated management of safety and security (IMSS) in the nuclear industry – Organizational culture perspective	84
A case study on the Industrial Risk Management (IRM) post-master academic education program of MINES Paris PSL University	82
Applying evidential reasoning extended SPAR-H modelling to analyse human reliability on crude oil tanker cargo operation	80
Risk perception and safety behaviors in high-risk workers: A systematic literature review	79
Bi-objective rescue path selection optimization for mine fires based on quantitative risk assessment	79
A general method to combine environmental and life-safety consequences of Arctic ship accidents	78
Analysis of the main components precursors of occupational accidents in the construction industry in Spain (2003–2022)	76
Digital technology enhanced situation awareness for construction safety: Systematic review and future research directions	72
Determining prominent factors across system hierarchies to improve road safety in LMICs: A case study of Bangladesh	72
A systematic review on roundabout safety incorporating the safety assessment methodologies, data collection techniques, and driver behavior	72
Biogas plants accidents: Analyzing occurrence, severity, and associations between 1990 and 2023	70
Systems theoretic accident model and process (STAMP): A literature review	69
Explaining unsafe pedestrian road crossing behaviours using a Psychophysics-based gap acceptance model	68
Exploring the impact of taboo and stigma on rail suicide prevention in Australasia: A grounded theory and systems analysis approach	68
Exploring the impact of truck traffic on road segment-based severe crash proportion using extensive weigh-in-motion data	67

Working hour patterns and risk of occupational accidents. An optimal matching analysis in a hospital employee cohort	67
Influence of social networks and opportunities for social support on evacuation destination decision-making	66
Validating the polish version of the psychosocial safety climate PSC-12 scale (PSC-12-PL): a multisample and multilevel study	65
Analyst behaviour and team processes during hazard analysis: The development of an observation protocol and initial results from evaluating HAZOP sessions	64
Safety climate in small construction companies: The relationship with burnout, anxiety, and depression among workers	62
Editorial Board	61
Effect of S-shaped guardrails on pedestrian crowd flows in bottleneck areas	60
Estimating hourly work schedule risk in railway traffic controllers	60
Editorial Board	59
A multicriteria approach to integrating occupational safety & health performance and industry systems productivity in the context of aging workforce: A case study	58
Occupational noise-related perception and personal protection behavior among Chinese construction workers	58
Crime prevention through environmental design in public school career and technical education facilities: Principals’ perceptions of security enhancement	57
Enhancing safety training engagement through immersive storytelling: A case study in the residential construction	57
Occupational physical activity and mortality risk among 756 377 adults: A prospective cohort register-based study with 13 years follow-up	56
Using Action Design Research for Developing and Implementing a Method for Risk Assessment and Continuity Management	56
An incident reporting and learning system to understand cycling incident causation in Australia: A 12-month implementation of CRIT	56
Trajectory-based analysis on pedestrian turning movement on a stair landing	56
The safety actions of surfers in Victoria, Australia: Assessing the impact of water safety and first aid training	56
Management practices that promote preventive measures compliance: A comparative analysis between hospital healthcare workers and teachers	55
Sustainability, business responsibility and occupational health, safety and wellbeing in the future of work	55
Investigation of risk factors in university Laboratories: An improved fuzzy based FMEA approach	54
Workplace incivility: A retrospective review and future research agenda	52
Work-related determinants of workplace wellbeing for women and marginalised groups in the European Union: A scoping review	51
Investigating the relationship between human and organisational factors, maintenance, and accidents. The case of chemical process industry in South Africa	51
How fatigue affects the safety behaviour intentions of construction workers an empirical study in Hunan, China	51
The mediating influence of local cultures on the relationship between factors of safety risk perception and Risk-Taking behavioural intention of construction site workers	50
Safety not guaranteed: Investigating employees’ safety performance during a global pandemic	50
The effect of risk communication on consumers’ risk perception, risk tolerance and utility of smart and non-smart home appliances	50
Integrating diminished quality of life with virtual reality for occupational health and safety training	50