OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Injury Epidemiology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Adverse childhood experiences, child behavioral health needs, and family characteristics associated with the presence of a firearm in the home: a survey of parents in Chicago	29
Snakebites and resource utilization in pediatric urban and rural populations in the United States: 2016–2023	24
Firearm safe storage practices among firearm owners in rural and urban households	22
Understanding knowledge and approval for sociopolitical groups: results from the 2023 National Survey of Gun Policy	18
A firm recommendation: measuring the softness of infant sleep surfaces	17
Changes in pediatric injuries sustained while engaged in activities where helmet usage is recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Analysis of the regional distribution of road traffic mortality and associated factors in Japan	16
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric dog bite injuries	15
Prevalence, risk factors and perceptions of caregivers on burns among children under 5 years in Kisenyi slum, Kampala, Uganda	14
Substance use in rural trauma patients admitted for motor vehicle injuries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Correction: A methodology for the public health surveillance and epidemiologic analysis of outdoor falls that require an emergency medical services response	13
Pediatric hospital visits for unintentional drowning in bathtubs in Central Texas, USA	13
The influence of heatwaves on traffic safety in five cities across Québec with different thermal landscapes	13
Spatial de-concentration of fatal and nonfatal firearm violence in Boston, MA, 2007–2021	13
Community partnership approaches to safe sleep (CPASS) program evaluation	11
Voluntary, temporary out-of-home firearm storage: a survey of law enforcement agencies in two states	11
Individual, firearm, and purchasing characteristics associated with risk of firearm-related violent crime arrest: a nested case-control study	11
ProjectDRIVE: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to improve driving practices of high-risk teen drivers with a traffic violation	11
Association of medical conditions and firearm suicide among legal handgun purchasers in California: a case–control study	10
Child injuries in Lebanon: assessing mothers’ injury prevention knowledge attitude and practices	10
Pediatric patients with dog bites presenting to US children’s hospitals	10
Stay-at-home, Safe at Home? A survey of parental home safety practices before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and structural inequalities within the pediatric trauma population	10
Assessing improvements in emergency department referrals to a hospital-based violence intervention program	10
Diabetes mellitus and hard braking events in older adult drivers	10

The practice of lethal means restriction counseling in US emergency departments to reduce suicide risk: a systematic review of the literature	10
All-terrain vehicle exposure and the association of certified training on adolescent safety behaviors and crash experiences	9
Youth victim perspective: optimizing presentation of patient-reported outcomes in a violence intervention program	9
Who discovers the firearm suicide decedent: an epidemiologic characterization of survivor-victims	9
The impact of COVID-19 and public health measures on homicide and suicide trends in Botswana using an interrupted time series analysis	9
Cervical vertebral and spinal cord injuries in rollover occupants	9
Racial and ethnic disparities of sudden unexpected infant death in large US cities: a descriptive epidemiological study	9
Nonfatal injury emergency department visits and inpatient hospitalizations among persons under age 65 with an intellectual and developmental disability or deaf or hard of hearing disability	8
High peak drinking levels mediate the relation between impulsive personality and injury risk in emerging adults	8
Publisher Correction to: Time‑dependent suicide rates among Army soldiers returning from an Afghanistan/Iraq deployment, by military rank and component	8
Geography, rurality, and community distress: deaths due to suicide, alcohol-use, and drug-use among Colorado Veterans	8
Pivoting injury prevention efforts during a pandemic: results of an international survey	8
Rural youth’s exposure to firearm violence and their attitudes regarding firearm safety measures	8
Measuring the hidden burden of violence: use of explicit and proxy codes in Minnesota injury hospitalizations, 2004–2014	8
The status of drowning prevention and control in the region of the Americas	8
Trends in views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA, 2022–2024: findings from a nationally representative survey	7
Profiles of pregnant women encountering motor vehicle crashes in Taiwan, 2008–2017	7
Two decades of nonfatal injury data: a scoping review of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program, 2001–2021	7
State cannabis laws and cannabis positivity among fatally injured drivers	7
Research needs related to firearm rights restoration	7
Military community engagement to prevent firearm-related violence: adaptation of project safe guard for service members	7
Multi-site medical record review for validation of intentional self-harm coding in emergency departments	7
Social network size and endorsement of political violence in the US	7
Evolution of the risk of death and hospitalisation in drivers involved in road crashes in spain, 1993–2020: an age-period-cohort analysis	6
Neighborhood collective efficacy and environmental exposure to firearm homicide among a national sample of adolescents	6
A joinpoint analysis examining trends in firearm injuries at six us trauma centers from 2016 to 2022	6
Research utility and limitations of textual data in the National Violent Death Reporting System: a scoping review and recommendations	6
Safe at home: prevention of pediatric unintentional injuries	6
R2DRV: study protocol for longitudinal assessment of driving after mild TBI in young drivers	6
Cost-effectiveness analysis of a large-scale crèche intervention to prevent child drowning in rural Bangladesh	6
Extortion experiences of recent adult immigrants from Latin America: self-reported prevalence, associated costs, and current mental health	6
An intervention to improve safe firearm storage for adolescents presenting with suicide ideation or attempt in a pediatric emergency department	6
Fatal and non-fatal firearm-related injuries in Canada, 2016–2020: a population-based study using three administrative databases	6
The association between county ordinances allowing off-road vehicles on public roads and crash rates	6
An epidemiological study of unintentional pediatric firearm fatalities in the USA, 2009–2018	6
Impact of standardization on racial and socioeconomic disparities in non-accidental trauma evaluations in infants in a pediatric emergency department	6
They built this city—construction workers injured in Delhi, India: cross-sectional analysis of First Information Reports of the Delhi Police 2016–2018	6
A multicenter evaluation of pediatric emergency department injury visits during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The association between remoteness of injury and in-hospital mortality for motor vehicle collision major trauma patients: evidence of survivor bias in an analysis of registry data	6
Geospatial estimates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt prevalence in the U.S. veteran population (2022)	6
Development and implementation of an injury and illness surveillance system for team USA	5
Neighborhood predictors of suicide and firearm suicide in Detroit, Michigan	5
What factors impact pedestrian and cyclist fatalities? A state level analysis	5
Caregiver water safety knowledge and views of toddler water competency	5
Drowning is fast, silent, and preventable: a Texas example of research in action	5
Storage of firearms in vehicles: findings from a sample of firearm owners in nine U.S. states	5
A multi-state evaluation of extreme risk protection orders: a research protocol	5
Pre- and postnatal safe sleep knowledge and planned as compared to actual infant sleep practices	5
Association of prior criminal charges and convictions with subsequent violent and firearm-related crime: a retrospective cohort study	5
Pediatric lawn mower-related injuries and contributing factors for bystander injuries	5

Pediatric firearm injury epidemiology at a level 1 trauma center from 2019 to 2021: including time of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Perceived neighborhood crime and gun carrying behavior: examining the role of a history of traumatic brain injury	5
Extreme risk protection order use in six US states: a descriptive study	5
Opioid-related polysubstance use and its effect on mortality and health resource utilization among trauma patients	5
Rural adolescent attitudes and use of bicycle helmets in Iowa	5
CHASE (Children’s Housing Assessment for a Safe Environment): a protocol for the inspection and modification of injury risks in children’s homes	5
Survivor perspectives on research priorities for assessing mental health outcomes after school shootings: a qualitative study	4
Connecticut providers knowledge and attitudes towards use of extreme risk protection orders	4
Racial and incident discrepancies in news media reporting of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID)	4
Self-harm emergency department visits in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a sentinel surveillance system	4
Effect of orthopaedic resident education on screening for intimate partner violence	4
Repeat self-harm hospitalizations in Canada: a survival analysis	4
“You wished the ground would open and swallow you up”: Expert opinions on shame, the collective, and other cultural considerations for suicide prevention among Asian American and Pacific Islander vete	4
Pediatric outdoor recreational injuries: another hidden concern during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Impact of cable lock distribution on firearm securement after emergent mental health evaluation: a randomized controlled trial	4
Ambient air pollution and the risk of violence in primary and secondary school settings: a cross-sectional study	4
Changes in suicide in California from 2017 to 2021: a population-based study	4
The epidemiology of firework-related injuries in the US, 2012–2022	4
Correction: Views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA: findings from a nationally representative survey	4
Protocolized abuse screening to decrease provider bias and increase capture of potential events	3
Principles of musculoskeletal sport injuries for epidemiologists: a review	3
Characteristics and neighborhood-level opportunity of assault-injured children in Milwaukee	3
Trends in firearm death among middle and high-school aged rural and urban adolescents from 2001 to 2022	3
Rural adolescent attitudes and use of helmets while riding ATVs, motorcycles and dirt bikes	3
Impact of COVID-related policies on gunshot wound assault hospitalizations in the United States: a statewide time series analysis	3
Occupational burn injuries in Finland 2011–2015	3
Accuracy of the national violent death reporting system in identifying unintentional firearm deaths to children by children	3
Firearm locking device preferences among firearm owners in the USA: a systematic review	3
A descriptive and comparative analysis of injuries reported in USA Cycling-sanctioned competitive road cycling events	3
Epidemiology of adult trauma injuries in Malawi: results from a multisite trauma registry	3
The dark side of nighttime all-terrain vehicle use	3
Epidemiology of traumatic cervical spinal fractures in a general Norwegian population	3
Using data fusion with multiple imputation to correct for misclassification in self-reported exposure: a case-control study of cannabis use and homicide victimization	3
Redlining, reinvestment, and racial segregation: a bayesian spatial analysis of mortgage lending trajectories and firearm-related violence	3
Structural racism and intimate partner violence perpetration among racially diverse men transitioning into fatherhood: an anti-racist approach to IPV prevention	3
Recreational off-highway vehicle exposure, safety behaviors and crash experiences among adolescents	3
Psychological distress 12 years following injury in New Zealand: findings from the Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study-10 years on (POIS-10)	2
Ghost guns and crime: a tale of two California cities	2
Using EMS data to explore community-level factors associated with firearm violence in North Carolina	2
Women Veterans’ experiences discussing household firearms with their intimate partners: collaborative, devalued, and deferential relational types	2
Reducing fall injuries with better data	2
Evaluation of a prison violence prevention program: impacts on violent and non-violent prison infractions	2
Importance of categories of crime for predicting future violent crime among handgun purchasers in California	2
Clinical strategies for reducing firearm suicide	2
A content analysis of the Orbeez® Gel Blaster injury challenge on TikTok	2
Effects of implementing permissive campus carry laws on rates of major violence at public colleges and universities	2
Injury and illness: an analysis of team USA athletes at the 2024 winter youth olympic games	2
Unlicensed driving among young drivers in North Carolina: a quasi-induced exposure analysis	2
Utilizing Haddon matrix to assess nonfatal commercial fishing injury factors in Oregon and Washington	2
Bayesian methods for estimating injury rates in sport injury epidemiology	2
Colorado’s first year of extreme risk protection orders	2
Weapon use during the index offense: a study among forensic psychiatry patients in Ontario, Canada	2
Evaluating an urban pediatric hospital’s scald burn prevention program	2
Single-year change in views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA: findings from a 2023 nationally representative survey	2
Factors associated with discharge destination from acute care after moderate-to-severe traumatic injuries in Norway: a prospective population-based study	2
Pediatric trauma burden in Tanzania: analysis of prospective registry data from thirteen health facilities	2
Functional limitations and firearm purchases among low-income U.S. military veterans	2
Firework-related injuries treated at emergency departments in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 compared to 2018–2019	2
Understanding co-production of injury research in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: a comprehensive scoping review	2
Therapeutic errors involving diabetes medications reported to United States poison centers	2
The contributions of injury deaths to the gender gap in life expectancy and life disparity in Eastern Mediterranean Region	2
Expectations of and perceived need for civil war in the USA: findings from a 2023 nationally representative survey	2
American Indian and Alaska Native violence prevention efforts: a systematic review, 1980 to 2018	2
Protect Our Kids: a novel program bringing hemorrhage control to schools	2
Age-related mortality risk in cycling trauma: analysis of the National Trauma Databank 2017–2023	2
Gun violence and the voices of youth on community safety in the time of COVID-19 in East Harlem, NY: a youth participatory action research cross-sectional study	2
A systematic review of demographic and background factors associated with the development of children’s aquatic competence	2
Epidemiology of maxillofacial injury among adults in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	2