OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Prospective examination of self-harm up to three years after contact with Child Protective Services (CPS)	28
A hybrid clustering and random forest model to analyse vulnerable road user to motor vehicle (VRU-MV) crashes	27
A comparative assessment of subjective experience in simulator and on-road driving under normal and time pressure driving conditions	25
Accident severity prediction on arterial roads via multilayer perceptron neural network	25
Methods of strategic road safety management: a systematic review	25
Risk exposure factors influencing the frequency of road crashes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. A negative binomial spatial regression model	23
Classifying safe following distance for motorcycles to prevent rear-end collisions	19
Pedestrians injuries in the north east region of Jamaica: a cross sectional study	15
Violence against children: multifaceted approaches to a complex problem	15
List of reviewers (2022–2023)	14
Assessing the interdependence of rider fault-status and injury severity in motorcycle rear-end crashes: insights from bivariate probit and XGBoost-SHAP models	14
Factors explaining pedestrian-involved fatality crashes on National Highways in India	13
Childhood burn injury in the ger districts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: an analysis of parent narratives	11
Evaluating overtaking and filtering maneuver of motorcyclists and car drivers using advanced trajectory data analysis	11
Exploring safety effects on urban expressway diverging areas: crash risk estimation considering extreme conflict types	10
Which factors contribute to road crashes in non-commercial and commercial vehicles? An examination of administrative data from motorways in Pakistan	10
Child pedestrian, drowning and burn mortality in Johannesburg	10
Data-driven crash prediction by injury severity using a recurrent neural network model based on Keras framework	10
Traffic risk for children and young adults: research challenges for meeting the global target for road traffic fatality reduction	10
Associations between having been threatened or injured with a weapon and substance use and mental health among high school students in the United States	10
Random forest models for motorcycle accident prediction using naturalistic driving based big data	10
Bicycle crash frequency modeling across different crash severities using a random-forest-based Shapley Additive explanations approach	9
Investigating the effect of road condition and vacation on crash severity using machine learning algorithms	9
A study of the factors affecting driving risk perception using the Bivariate Ordered Probit model	9
Forecasting road traffic accidents in India: a SARIMAX approach incorporating COVID-19 effects	8

The applicability of Smeed’s Law in an evaluation of national road safety management systems: Montenegro versus Great Britain	8
Data as evidence: research on the impacting mechanisms of dual prevention mechanism construction in Chinese coal enterprise based on SEM	8
Injury severity analysis of e-bike riders in China based on the in-vehicle recording video crash data: a random parameter ordered logit model	7
The prevalence of helmet use in motorcyclists around the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 5,006,476 participants	7
Estimating lives saved and serious injuries reduced by bicycle helmet use in Colorado, 2006–2014	7
Enhancing safety of construction workers in Korea: an integrated text mining and machine learning framework for predicting accident types	7
Assessing the impact of demographic and contextual factors on cyclist safety at midblock locations and intersections	7
Systematic review and meta-analysis exploring safety performance measures of work zone	7
Lessons learned from characteristics of extraordinarily severe traffic crashes in China, 2004–2019	6
Proactive pedestrian safety evaluation at urban road network level, an experience in Kolkata City, India	6
Safety risk assessment for intersection rear-end conflicts based on collision risk force indicator	6
Safety and security perceptions in informal transport: the case of Tunisia	6
Safety assessment of coordinated signalized intersections in a connected vehicle environment: a microsimulation approach	6
Child maltreatment, suicidal ideation, and in-home firearm availability in the U.S.: findings from the longitudinal studies of child abuse and neglect	6
Using unsupervised learning to investigate injury-associated factors of animal-vehicle crashes	6
Impact of urban form and street infrastructure on pedestrian-motorist collisions	6
Analysis of contributory factors of fatal pedestrian crashes by mixed logit model and association rules	6
Prevalence and risk factors of cooking-related burn injury among under-five-years old children in a resource-limited setting: a community-based cross-sectional study in Northwest Ethiopia	5
Performance of a Likert adaptation of the SRQ-20 scale among women victims of intimate partner violence in Colombia: an exploratory study	5
Analyzing the factors affecting the crash severity level at urban roundabouts in non-lane-based heterogeneous traffic	5
Professor Emeritus Dr Leif O. Svanström, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 30 October 1943 – 29 January 2023	5
Mediating role of emotional suppression in the relationship between psychological factors and intimate partner violence among couples with mixed-romantic orientations	5
Newspaper framing of motor vehicle crashes and road safety in Argentina	5
Advancing youth transportation safety in North Carolina through addressing alcohol-related motor vehicle collisions	5
Examining fatal and non-fatal injuries of drivers in single-vehicle-involved crashes on urban roadways using random parameter logit model	5
Systems-thinking-based road safety research: the way forward	5
Developing a national database of police-reported fatal road traffic crashes for road safety research and management in India	5
Structural equation modeling of pedestrian behavior at footbridges in Ghana	5
A new data-driven model for vehicle and pedestrian safety: statistical approach based on spatial decision-making	5
Seatbelt use among bus passengers in Ghana: observed versus self-reported measures	5
A call for action on alarming road traffic injuries in Africa	5
Interpretable machine learning for evaluating risk factors of freeway crash severity	5
A comparative analysis of factors influencing the injury severity of daytime and nighttime crashes on a mountainous expressway in China	5
Applying count time series to assess 13-year pedestrian mortality trend caused by traffic accidents in East-Azerbaijan province, Iran	5
Investigating effective factors on rural crash severity at marginal areas around cities in Iran: a partial proportional odds modelling approach	4
Traffic safety, injuries and the end of COVID 19 pandemic	4
Cluster analysis of the spatial distribution of pedestrian deaths and injuries by parishes in Kampala city, Uganda	4
Investigating injury severity interaction between urban and urban-rural fringe areas: a grouped random parameters seemingly unrelated bivariate probit approach	4
Investigating and modeling the influence of PET-types on crossing conflicts at urban unsignalized intersections in India	4
Factors associated with physical violence against children in Haiti: a national population-based cross-sectional survey	4
Advancing road traffic injury measures in the WANA region towards road safety specific SDGs	4
Identifying the causal effects of driver distraction on hazardous actions at intersections based on propensity score weighting	4
Bivariate ordered probit modelling of motorcycle riders and pillion passengers’ injury severities relationship and associated risk factors	4
The effect of different mobile uses on crash frequency among young drivers: application of statistical models and clustering analysis	4
List of reviewers (2020-2021)	4
An analysis of occupational illness and injuries of the industrial workers in slums	4
Hot spot analysis and evaluation of influencing factors on regional road crash safety and severity indices: insights from Iran	4
The challenge of meeting global targets for road traffic fatality reduction	4
Identifying factors affecting crash injury severity of pillion riders using interpretable machine learning techniques	4
Pickup truck crash severity analysis via machine learning: policy insights for developing countries	4

Learning from historical evidence to move forward in safety research: systematic reviews and vulnerable road users	4
Co-location analysis of pedestrian accident attributes for Ankara	3
A systematic literature review on road safety management: land use, budget and legislation	3
Analysis of driver-injury severity: a comparison between speeding and non-speeding driving crash accounting for temporal and unobserved effects	3
Violence and non-fatal injuries among Vietnamese in-school adolescents: national prevalence estimates and associated factors	3
Cell phone distraction behavior of young pedestrians: evidence from China	3
The epidemiology and characteristics of injuries to under 5’s in a secondary city in Uganda: a retrospective review of hospital data	3
Injury, violence, and crime prevention at cultural male initiation schools in Giyani and Malamulele in Limpopo Province, South Africa	3
Home injuries in British Columbia: patterns across the deprivation spectrum	3
Speed heterogeneity and accident reduction in mixed traffic	3
Road safety status during COVID-19 pandemic: exploring public and road safety expert’s opinions	3
Characterizing the effects of contributing factors on crash severity involving e-bicycles: a study based on police-reported data	3
Rear-seat seatbelt use in urban Southeast Asia: results from Bandung and Bangkok	3
Injury severity analysis of two-vehicle crashes at unsignalized intersections using mixed logit models	3
How do drunk-driving events escalate into drunk-driving crashes? An empirical analysis of Beijing from a spatiotemporal perspective	3
Can job stress, health status and risky driving behaviours predict the crash risk level of taxi drivers? New evidence from China	3
Clinical outcomes of patients with crush syndrome in the Kahramanmaras earthquake	3
Renew global partnerships for addressing the risk to vulnerable road users and strengthening research institutions	3
Socio-cultural context of road safety in youth: a scoping review	3
Defining machine learning algorithms as accident prediction models for Italian two-lane rural, suburban, and urban roads	3
Factors associated with under- fives unintentional injuries in Kgalagadi South, Botswana	3
The safety impacts of paved shoulder width in Indian four-lane rural highways	3
The influence of childhood and early adult adversities on substance use behaviours in racial/ethnically diverse young adult women: a latent class analysis	3
Evaluation of the effectiveness of addition of road humps as a road safety intervention	2
Examining factors affecting driver injury severity in speeding-related crashes: a comparative study across driver age groups	2
Characteristics of pediatric emergency department visits for youth 10-15 years old with injuries due to interpersonal violence	2
Motorcyclist injury severity analysis: a comparison of Artificial Neural Networks and random parameter model with heterogeneity in means and variances	2
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on road safety in Tamil Nadu, India	2
Modeling crashes involving children, finite mixture cumulative link mixed model	2
Hazardous traffic scenarios for motorcyclists in Indonesia: a comprehensive insight from police accident data and self-reports	2
Pedestrians safety perceptions on midblock crosswalk utilization along urban corridors of developing countries	2
The COVID-19 pandemic and changes in spatio-temporal patterns of suicide: monthly variations among localities in Argentina	2
Prevalence and patterns of helmet use among motorized two-wheelers: findings from a large observational study in an Indian metropolis	2
Interventions to prevent road traffic injuries among pedestrians: a systematic review	2
Evaluating the crash risk of powered two-wheelers in urban mixed traffic environments: a conflict threshold perspective	2
The effect of intervention programs on road traffic injury prevention among adolescents and young people: a systematic review	2
Fidelity of implementation of the building bridges mentoring intervention to prevent violence among youth in low income settings	2
Investigating the role of health belief model on seat belt use for front seat passengers on urban and rural roads	2
Exploring the speeding behavior among young motorcyclists in Lahore using extended theory of planned behavior: insights for road safety improvements	2
A matched case–control approach to identify the risk factors of fatal pedestrian crashes on a six-lane rural highway in India	2
Population-level estimate of bicycle use and fatality risk in a data-poor setting	2
Pattern of road traffic fatalities in India: a case study of Chhattisgarh State	2
Meeting the challenge of the second decade of road safety: evidence supported by quality research	2
Road traffic mortality in Iran: longitudinal trend and seasonal analysis, March 2011-February 2020	2
Construction of injury process from Japanese consumer product narrative injury data using an ontology-based method	2
Factors affecting severe pedestrian crash percentages at intersections in Colorado 2006–2018	2
Monitoring road accident and injury using indeterminacy based Shewhart control chart using multiple dependent state repetitive sampling	2