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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Risk exposure factors influencing the frequency of road crashes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. A negative binomial spatial regression model	38
Classifying safe following distance for motorcycles to prevent rear-end collisions	32
Methods of strategic road safety management: a systematic review	26
Accident severity prediction on arterial roads via multilayer perceptron neural network	23
A comparative assessment of subjective experience in simulator and on-road driving under normal and time pressure driving conditions	22
A hybrid clustering and random forest model to analyse vulnerable road user to motor vehicle (VRU-MV) crashes	21
Assessing the interdependence of rider fault-status and injury severity in motorcycle rear-end crashes: insights from bivariate probit and XGBoost-SHAP models	19
Pedestrians injuries in the north east region of Jamaica: a cross sectional study	18
List of reviewers (2022–2023)	16
A profile of abandoned fetal and neonatal remains admitted to the Diepkloof forensic pathology service medico-legal mortuary during the COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 periods	16
Data-driven crash prediction by injury severity using a recurrent neural network model based on Keras framework	15
Childhood burn injury in the ger districts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: an analysis of parent narratives	15
Evaluating overtaking and filtering maneuver of motorcyclists and car drivers using advanced trajectory data analysis	15
Helmet use among motorcyclists in Tamale, Ghana: prevalence and associated factors	14
Child pedestrian, drowning and burn mortality in Johannesburg	13
The impact of alcohol sale restrictions on unnatural deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in Johannesburg, South Africa	12
Exploring safety effects on urban expressway diverging areas: crash risk estimation considering extreme conflict types	12
Traffic risk for children and young adults: research challenges for meeting the global target for road traffic fatality reduction	12
Editorial	11
Data as evidence: research on the impacting mechanisms of dual prevention mechanism construction in Chinese coal enterprise based on SEM	10
Investigating the effect of road condition and vacation on crash severity using machine learning algorithms	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	10
Forecasting road traffic accidents in India: a SARIMAX approach incorporating COVID-19 effects	10
Assessing the impact of demographic and contextual factors on cyclist safety at midblock locations and intersections	9

Estimating lives saved and serious injuries reduced by bicycle helmet use in Colorado, 2006–2014	9
Addressing global health challenges: a comprehensive framework for determinants of health	9
Using unsupervised learning to investigate injury-associated factors of animal-vehicle crashes	9
Key factors in electrical safety within utility industries: a structural hierarchical approach	9
Safety and security perceptions in informal transport: the case of Tunisia	9
Systematic review and meta-analysis exploring safety performance measures of work zone	8
The impact of non-functioning traffic signals on pedestrian injury severity: evidence from a nationwide interpretable machine-learning study (Poland, 2015–2024)	8
Integrated regression and RII-based evaluation of rural road safety: a case study of Sinnar Taluka, Nashik district	8
A profile of deaths in children at the Diepkloof Forensic Pathology Services mortuary in Gauteng, South Africa from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020	8
Enhancing safety of construction workers in Korea: an integrated text mining and machine learning framework for predicting accident types	8
The prevalence of helmet use in motorcyclists around the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 5,006,476 participants	8
Impact of urban form and street infrastructure on pedestrian-motorist collisions	7
Lessons learned from characteristics of extraordinarily severe traffic crashes in China, 2004–2019	7
Pedestrian crash risk near bus stops in Delhi: development of safety performance functions	7
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
Safety risk assessment for intersection rear-end conflicts based on collision risk force indicator	7
Built environment characteristics and drowning mortality: a global satellite-based analysis of urbanisation, infrastructure, and water proximity	7
Impact of increase in penalties on alcohol and mobile-use related accidents in India: observations from the report on road accidents in India	6
Mediating role of emotional suppression in the relationship between psychological factors and intimate partner violence among couples with mixed-romantic orientations	6
Interpretable machine learning for evaluating risk factors of freeway crash severity	6
Unintentional Childhood injuries in Negev Bedouins: mechanisms, risks and strategies for prevention	6
Analysis of contributory factors of fatal pedestrian crashes by mixed logit model and association rules	6
Systems-thinking-based road safety research: the way forward	6
HAZOP for safety culture: a novel safety culture index	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	6
Professor Emeritus Dr Leif O. Svanström, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 30 October 1943 – 29 January 2023	6
A novel XGBoost method with entity embeddings for feature analysis and classification of traffic crash types	5
A new data-driven model for vehicle and pedestrian safety: statistical approach based on spatial decision-making	5
Developing a national database of police-reported fatal road traffic crashes for road safety research and management in India	5
Analyzing the factors affecting the crash severity level at urban roundabouts in non-lane-based heterogeneous traffic	5
Newspaper framing of motor vehicle crashes and road safety in Argentina	5
Epidemiology of road traffic injuries in Oman: insights from the Eastern Mediterranean region	5
The challenge of meeting global targets for road traffic fatality reduction	4
An analysis of occupational illness and injuries of the industrial workers in slums	4
A hybrid machine learning approach for predicting traffic accident collision severity	4
Children’s visual attention in street-crossing tasks: insights from virtual reality and eye tracking	4
Bivariate ordered probit modelling of motorcycle riders and pillion passengers’ injury severities relationship and associated risk factors	4
Restraints for young kids on motorcycles: potential harms likely outweigh the benefits	4
Examining fatal and non-fatal injuries of drivers in single-vehicle-involved crashes on urban roadways using random parameter logit model	4
Advancing youth transportation safety in North Carolina through addressing alcohol-related motor vehicle collisions	4
Safety of young children and other vulnerable road users in traffic	4
Investigating effective factors on rural crash severity at marginal areas around cities in Iran: a partial proportional odds modelling approach	4
Cluster analysis of the spatial distribution of pedestrian deaths and injuries by parishes in Kampala city, Uganda	4
Identifying factors affecting crash injury severity of pillion riders using interpretable machine learning techniques	4
Hot spot analysis and evaluation of influencing factors on regional road crash safety and severity indices: insights from Iran	4
Advancing road traffic injury measures in the WANA region towards road safety specific SDGs	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
Pickup truck crash severity analysis via machine learning: policy insights for developing countries	4
Epidemiology of player injuries in Europe’s top five professional football leagues: trends, risk factors and economic impact	3

A comparative assessment of road traffic injury patterns in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape before, during and after COVID-19 (2019–2023)	3
Factors and paths influencing multi-type crash risks on freeway curves: multilevel structural equation modelling	3
Syndemics, violence and injury: exploring historical relationships between infectious disease epidemics and violent crime in South Africa	3
Identifying the causal effects of driver distraction on hazardous actions at intersections based on propensity score weighting	3
The safety impacts of paved shoulder width in Indian four-lane rural highways	3
Post-pandemic social concentration of homicide victims in Peru: shifts in victim composition across social groups	3
Socio-cultural context of road safety in youth: a scoping review	3
Clinical outcomes of patients with crush syndrome in the Kahramanmaras earthquake	3
Learning from historical evidence to move forward in safety research: systematic reviews and vulnerable road users	3
Seatbelt and child restraint use in Accra, Ghana: results from multi-round observational studies (2015–2020)	3
Analysis of risk factors for DUI and DWI crashes considering the built environment	3
How do drunk-driving events escalate into drunk-driving crashes? An empirical analysis of Beijing from a spatiotemporal perspective	3
Factors associated with under- fives unintentional injuries in Kgalagadi South, Botswana	3
Can job stress, health status and risky driving behaviours predict the crash risk level of taxi drivers? New evidence from China	3
Cell phone distraction behavior of young pedestrians: evidence from China	2
Renew global partnerships for addressing the risk to vulnerable road users and strengthening research institutions	2
Silent crises in the COVID-19 pandemic shadow: a six-year medico-legal review of non-lethal intimate partner violence in Morocco	2
Road traffic mortality in Iran: longitudinal trend and seasonal analysis, March 2011-February 2020	2
Suicide in rural South Africa before and during COVID-19: evidence from forensic mortuary data in Limpopo Province	2
A matched case–control approach to identify the risk factors of fatal pedestrian crashes on a six-lane rural highway in India	2
Injury patterns in a national cohort of summer camps: insights for prevention efforts	2
Evaluation of the effectiveness of addition of road humps as a road safety intervention	2
A systematic literature review on road safety management: land use, budget and legislation	2
Home injuries in British Columbia: patterns across the deprivation spectrum	2
Prevalence and patterns of helmet use among motorized two-wheelers: findings from a large observational study in an Indian metropolis	2
Factors affecting severe pedestrian crash percentages at intersections in Colorado 2006–2018	2
Intelligent multimodal sensor fusion for early knee disorder detection and injury prevention using prosthetic gait control	2
Construction of injury process from Japanese consumer product narrative injury data using an ontology-based method	2
The COVID-19 pandemic and changes in spatio-temporal patterns of suicide: monthly variations among localities in Argentina	2
Examining factors affecting driver injury severity in speeding-related crashes: a comparative study across driver age groups	2
Co-location analysis of pedestrian accident attributes for Ankara	2
Driver behavioral and psychological traits as risk factors for traffic accidents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	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
Investigating the role of health belief model on seat belt use for front seat passengers on urban and rural roads	2
The effect of intervention programs on road traffic injury prevention among adolescents and young people: a systematic review	2
Modeling highway-rail grade crossing (HRGC) crash severity using statistical and machine learning methods	2
Exploring the speeding behavior among young motorcyclists in Lahore using extended theory of planned behavior: insights for road safety improvements	2
Population-level estimate of bicycle use and fatality risk in a data-poor setting	2
Speed heterogeneity and accident reduction in mixed traffic	2