OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Injury Prevention is 3. 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
Ankle sprains in male Israeli infantry soldiers during training: prevalence and risk factors	59
Motor vehicle collision (MVC) emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic	38
Social determinants of health, driving time to trauma hospitals, racial composition, and firearm violence in South Carolina	37
Effect of a new concussion substitute rule on medical assessment of head collision events in Premier League football	28
Leveraging computer vision for predicting collision risks: a cross-sectional analysis of 2019–2021 fatal collisions in the USA	27
WISQARS Cost of Injury for public health research and practice	27
Firearm homicides among hispanics and white non-hispanics: measuring disparities	24
Non-reporting of sport-related concussion symptoms: a cross-sectional study of community rugby league players in the UK	23
Estimating the ratio of fatal to non-fatal overdoses involving all drugs, all opioids, synthetic opioids, heroin or stimulants, USA, 2010–2020	20
Intimate partner violence and suicide mortality: a cross-sectional study using machine learning and natural language processing of suicide data from 43 states	20
Head and neck injuries from personal motorised vehicles in the United States	18
Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on paediatric injury patterns due to wheeled recreational vehicles in New South Wales, Australia: a cross-sectional study	17
Development and validation of the domestic violence scale for ever-married women in India	14
Insufficient sleep, impaired sleep and medically treated injury in Canadian adolescents: a national cross-sectional study	14
Child safety seat checks in Salt Lake County: protective and risk factors	14
Pregnancy-associated homicide, suicide and unintentional opioid-involved overdose deaths, North Carolina 2018–2019	14
Spatiotemporal crash outliers are also noteworthy: evidence from 13 years of pedestrian-vehicle crashes in North Carolina	14
Alcohol and cannabis use in traffic-related injuries in Mexico City	14
Economic modelling of fall prevention interventions delivered by community emergency medical services: a decision-tree analysis	12
Combinations of substances contributing to death among overdose decedents in Maryland (2020–2021)	12
Military spouse and key stakeholder perspectives of effective messaging for US service members on secure storage of personal firearms: a qualitative study	11
Elevated drug overdose mortality among Americans who visit Florida, 2003–2020	11
Tackling sport-related concussion: effectiveness of lowering the maximum legal height of the tackle in amateur male rugby – a cross-sectional analytical study	10
Knowledge, mobility and the built environment: assessing risk factors for road traffic incidents during children’s school journeys in urban Blantyre, Malawi – an observational study	10
Honor ideology and private firearm ownership in US active-duty soldiers	9

Impact of school closures and reopenings on paediatric fracture incidence during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series analysis in Japan	9
Connections Lab: a case study exploring a web-based innovation designed to advance shared risk and protective factor approaches to preventing injuries and violence	9
Adults’ exposure to adverse childhood experiences in the United States nationwide and in each state: modeled estimates from 2019-2020	9
Injury patterns in competitive and recreational surfing: a systematic review	9
Comparing radiologically evident injuries among cisgender and transgender women	9
Trends in alcohol, MDMA, methylamphetamine and THC in injured and deceased motor vehicle drivers and motorcyclists over a decade (2010–2019) in Victoria, Australia	9
Bullying victimisation and perpetration of foster and kinship youth in the USA	8
Rear-facing child safety seat effectiveness: evidence from motor vehicle crash data	8
Antenatal and early childhood exposures associated with non-fatal infant injury: evidence from a longitudinal birth cohort in New Zealand	8
Incidents and patterns of commotio cordis among athletes in the USA from 1982 to 2023	8
Using the NEISS database to understand pressure cooker related injuries in the USA	8
Intimate partner violence during pregnancy against adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review	8
Coastal mortality burden on school holidays 2004–2021: an Australian perspective	8
Development of a Modifiable Fall Risk Score for evaluating changes in fall risk over time	8
Evaluation of road safety policies and their enforcement in Mexico City, 2015–2019: an interrupted time-series study	8
Assessing progress of road safety legislation globally: criteria, methodology and evolution 2015–2023	7
Predictors of ATF inspections of FFLs and subsequent violations	7
Rates of serious injury from falls in children and adolescents: 10-year retrospective review of data from Ontario, Canada	7
Whistleblower: the front line and critical facilitator for injury prevention policy?	7
Psychosocial challenges among the ocular injury survivors in the July 2024 mass uprising in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional assessment	7
Injuries from falling out of bed in infants under 1 year of age: a systematic review	7
Effects of state opioid prescribing laws on rates of fatal crashes in the USA	7
Frequency and mechanism of injury for unintentional paediatric femoral fractures associated with consumer products over a 10-year period in the USA	7
Examining injury-related mortality disparities for American Indians/Alaskan Natives in rural Wisconsin	7
Development, dissemination and survey evaluation of layered education for healthcare professionals to support implementation of firearm injury and mortality prevention strategies in emergency care set	7
Unrealised potential of pool fencing and life jackets to prevent US drownings	7
Trends in mortality after emergency department presentation for suicidal behaviour in California	6
Prevalence of indications of alcohol and drug use among patients treated for injurious falls by Emergency Medical Services in the USA	6
Community emergency medical services approaches to fall prevention: a systematic review	6
Financial barriers and facilitators to secure firearm and medication storage among veterans with elevated suicide risk: a qualitative study	6
Pedestrians’ perceptions of the role of the built environment towards pedestrian safety in Kampala city, Uganda: a phenomenological study	6
Motor vehicle crash death rates among passenger vehicle occupants and pedestrians by county-level social vulnerability and urbanicity: the USA, 2019	6
Burden of road traffic injuries in Iran: a national and subnational perspective, 1990−2019	6
Examining the protective effects of social capital and social support on the perpetration of violence among a national sample of adolescents	6
Concussion education for youth athletes using Pre-Game Safety Huddles: a cluster-randomised controlled trial	6
Prevalence and reporting of sexual harassment and sexual assault at live music events in the USA	6
Associations between experiencing violence, owning a firearm for protection and firearm storage: a nationally representative analysis of US caregivers of teens	6
Exploratory qualitative study of firearm storage practices among surgeons in the USA: contexts and motivations	6
Understanding non-fatal drowning in Victoria, Australia: a 20-year analysis of hospital admission data	6
Youth suicidality and adverse experiences: assessing the protective role of social support systems	6
Achieving gains in state and local child safety systems and workforce development: application of the framework for quality improvement and innovation in child safety	6
Recreational cannabis legalization and pediatric exposures in Massachusetts, United States	6
Productivity losses from non-fatal traumatic brain injuries in the United States	6
Joint effects of heat-humidity compound events on drowning mortality in Southern China	6
System-level interventions for fall risk assessment, fall prevention and fall injury prevention in long-term care facilities: a scoping review	6
Self-harm in adolescence and risk of crash: a 13-year cohort study of novice drivers in New South Wales, Australia	5
Suicide by suffocation among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Veterans in the USA (2012–2018)	5
Relationship between family history of mandatory boarding school experiences and suicide risk in US reservation-based Native American youth: a cross-sectional analysis	5
Understanding parent and caregiver perceptions of paediatric vehicular hyperthermia: implications for public health messaging from a pilot study	5
Sociocultural determinants of injury risk among Indigenous peoples in Canada: a population-based study of heterogeneous effects	5

Non-fatal drug overdose surveillance using hospital discharge data: a comparison between the Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DOSE) system and the Healthcare Cost and Utilisation Project,	5
Epidemiology of cruciate ligament injuries in New Zealand: exploring differences by ethnicity and socioeconomic status	5
Impact of Sources of Strength on adolescent suicide deaths across three randomized trials	5
Paths and their implications of parents’ health literacy on road traffic injuries in children aged 0–6 years in China: a mixed methods approach	5
Risk factors of falls in rural elderly of Ningxia in China: a prospective cohort study	5
How state firework restrictions affect the incidence of paediatric firework injuries in the USA	5
Comparing estimates of road traffic deaths and non-fatal road traffic injuries in Cambodia	5
Replication of a local record keeping method for collecting road crash data in low resource settings: lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal	5
Cannabinoid home storage practices among a national Qualtrics panel of adult users of cannabinoid products in the USA	5
Work-related road traffic accidents: emergence of new modes of personal journey – analysis based on data from a register of road traffic accidents in France	5
School bullying prevention and intervention strategies in the United Arab Emirates: a scoping review	5
Addressing a gap: a qualitative analysis of Scotland’s Drowning and Incident Review process	5
Burden of fatal drowning in California, 2005–2019	5
Shock-absorbing effect of flooring-adopted mechanical metamaterial technology and its influence on the gait and balance of older adults	5
Verbal autopsy instruments for ‘causes and circumstances’ surrounding drowning deaths in low– and middle–income countries: a scoping review	4
Rising burden of fall-related fractures: insights from the global burden of disease study	4
Child pedestrian and cyclist injuries, and the built and social environment across Canadian cities: the Child Active Transportation Safety and the Environment Study (CHASE)	4
Assessment of Danish surf lifeguards’ skills using in situ simulation: a retrospective cohort study	4
In memoriam: Leif Svanström (1943–2023)	4
National estimates of emergency department visits for medication-related self-harm: United States, 2016–2019	4
Effectiveness of systematically delivered evidence-based home safety promotion to improve child home safety practices: a controlled before-and-after study	4
Characteristics of injury deaths among homeless and non-homeless US veterans (2017–2021)	4
Influence of cannabis and alcohol on motor vehicle injury severity in Canadian trauma centres: a prospective study	4
Investigating the 2016 surge in firearm violence in Illinois, USA, through community-based organisations: a qualitative study	4
Global, regional and national burdens of occupational injuries, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019	4
Comparing road traffic injuries by types of road users among children and adolescents in South Korea, 2011–2021	4
‘From lab to lifesaving’: the evolution of a public health campaign to reduce drownings	4
Harms and Benefits Inventory (HBI): initial validation of a novel assessment of perceived harms and benefits of firearm policies and practices	4
Locked and loaded: correlates of in-home firearm storage beliefs and behaviours	4
Prediction of the mechanism of suicide among Minnesota residents using data from the Minnesota violent death reporting system (MNVDRS)	4
Trends in fatal paediatric unintentional injury: what is going on?	4
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us	4
Monetised estimated quality-adjusted life year (QALY) losses for non-fatal injuries	4
Barriers and facilitators in the implementation of a child restraint system discharge programme in Singapore: a qualitative study	4
Child restraint legislation and injury rate NSW 2001–2019: analysing hospital administration data	4
Implementation fidelity of the ‘Stay One Step Ahead’ home safety intervention: a mixed-methods analysis	4
Effect of psychosocial interventions on risky driving behaviours among offender drivers by using simulated and real driving: study protocol for a non-randomised controlled trial	4
Intentions and willingness to engage in risky driving behaviour among high school adolescents: evaluating the b streetsmart road safety programme	4
Agricultural work-related fatalities and injuries in Punjab (India)	4
Understanding three approaches to reporting sudden unexpected infant death in the USA	3
Protest-related injuries during the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone protest in Seattle, Washington, USA in 2020	3
Fatal and non-fatal civilian injuries sustained during law enforcement-reported encounters in California, 2016–2021	3
Supporting a community of injury prevention giants: past, present and future	3
Transforming injury prevention for youth (TrIPY): an intersectionality model for youth injury prevention	3
Barriers and opportunities of establishing an integrated prehospital emergency response system in North West Ethiopia: a qualitative study	3
Twenty-five year occupational homicide mortality trends in North Carolina: 1992–2017	3
Is legislation effective in reducing risks of all-terrain vehicle-related injuries? A systematic review	3
Community and multisector partner engagement in US Vision Zero plan development	3
Global Burden of Disease disability weights for the US National Electronic Injury Surveillance System – All Injury Program	3
Healthcare spending and factors associated with fall injury in Australia residential aged care: a cohort analysis	3
Association between mild cognitive impairment and falls among Chinese older adults: the mediating roles of balance capacity and depressive symptoms	3
Systematic review of dog bite prevention strategies	3
Hospital visit histories of suicide decedents: a study in Utah	3
Evaluating water competency attainment among young children	3
Dads also matter: paternal and maternal factors associated with infant injury mortality	3
Evaluation of a distribution, education and awareness intervention for child passenger safety in Lebanon: a low-income and middle-income country setting	3
Driving offences and risk of subsequent crash in novice drivers: the DRIVE cohort study 12-year follow-up	3
State firearm legislation and initiation of gun carrying in the USA	3
Identifying fatal poisonings using child fatality review, poison centre and death certificate data in the USA	3
Public support for logbooks during the supervised practice driving phase of graduated driver licensing: a national survey of teens and parents in the USA	3
Caregiver perceptions of child active transportation safety: a nested pre-post survey	3
Attitudes toward physician-provided gun safety counselling among current and prospective gun owners in the USA	3
Mechanisms of paediatric injury: an 11-year review of injury trends from the National Trauma Data Bank	3
State-wise economic burden of road traffic injuries in India	3
Addressing discrepancies in estimates of road traffic deaths and injuries in Ethiopia	3
Self-harm surveillance: an analysis of ICD-10-CM code R45.88, non-suicidal self-harm, with no co-occurring injury code	3
Femur Fractures in children under two related to consumer products and the home environment treated in United States emergency departments 2017-2021	3
Assault-related anoxia and neck injuries in US emergency departments	3
Maternal outcomes in association with motor vehicle crashes during pregnancy: a nationwide population-based retrospective study	3
Six suggestions for improving quantitative evaluations	3
Effect of different helmet types in head injuries: a case–control study in northern Ghana	3
Ambulance services for road traffic injury (RTI) victims in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study on the ground realities and the way forward	3
Skateboard parks: the time has come to develop policies to reduce injuries	3
Context of boat drowning in Ghana: a mixed qualitative research study	3