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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric dog bite injuries	31
Built and social environment characteristics associated with motorcyclist mortality in Latin American cities from the SALURBAL study	19
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	18
Understanding knowledge and approval for sociopolitical groups: results from the 2023 National Survey of Gun Policy	17
Firearm safe storage practices among firearm owners in rural and urban households	17
Snakebites and resource utilization in pediatric urban and rural populations in the United States: 2016–2023	16
Changes in pediatric injuries sustained while engaged in activities where helmet usage is recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Individual, firearm, and purchasing characteristics associated with risk of firearm-related violent crime arrest: a nested case-control study	14
Prevalence, risk factors and perceptions of caregivers on burns among children under 5 years in Kisenyi slum, Kampala, Uganda	14
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
Substance use in rural trauma patients admitted for motor vehicle injuries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
ProjectDRIVE: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to improve driving practices of high-risk teen drivers with a traffic violation	12
Correction: A methodology for the public health surveillance and epidemiologic analysis of outdoor falls that require an emergency medical services response	12
Community partnership approaches to safe sleep (CPASS) program evaluation	12
Spatial de-concentration of fatal and nonfatal firearm violence in Boston, MA, 2007–2021	11
Relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and structural inequalities within the pediatric trauma population	11
Child injuries in Lebanon: assessing mothers’ injury prevention knowledge attitude and practices	11
Association of medical conditions and firearm suicide among legal handgun purchasers in California: a case–control study	10
Diabetes mellitus and hard braking events in older adult drivers	10
Stay-at-home, Safe at Home? A survey of parental home safety practices before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Voluntary, temporary out-of-home firearm storage: a survey of law enforcement agencies in two states	10
Injury patterns and seat belt effectiveness in pregnant motor vehicle occupants: evidence from US crash data, 1998–2021	10
The impact of COVID-19 and public health measures on homicide and suicide trends in Botswana using an interrupted time series analysis	10
Youth victim perspective: optimizing presentation of patient-reported outcomes in a violence intervention program	9

The status of drowning prevention and control in the region of the Americas	9
Who discovers the firearm suicide decedent: an epidemiologic characterization of survivor-victims	9
All-terrain vehicle exposure and the association of certified training on adolescent safety behaviors and crash experiences	9
Can place of death at home be used as a proxy for suicide at home? A record linkage study	8
Patterns and characteristics of firearm thefts from vehicles in San Antonio, Texas	8
Measuring the hidden burden of violence: use of explicit and proxy codes in Minnesota injury hospitalizations, 2004–2014	8
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
Racial and ethnic disparities of sudden unexpected infant death in large US cities: a descriptive epidemiological study	8
Pivoting injury prevention efforts during a pandemic: results of an international survey	8
Geography, rurality, and community distress: deaths due to suicide, alcohol-use, and drug-use among Colorado Veterans	8
Cervical vertebral and spinal cord injuries in rollover occupants	8
High peak drinking levels mediate the relation between impulsive personality and injury risk in emerging adults	8
Trends in views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA, 2022–2024: findings from a nationally representative survey	8
Research needs related to firearm rights restoration	7
Publisher Correction to: Time‑dependent suicide rates among Army soldiers returning from an Afghanistan/Iraq deployment, by military rank and component	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
Military community engagement to prevent firearm-related violence: adaptation of project safe guard for service members	7
State cannabis laws and cannabis positivity among fatally injured drivers	7
Two decades of nonfatal injury data: a scoping review of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program, 2001–2021	7
Profiles of pregnant women encountering motor vehicle crashes in Taiwan, 2008–2017	7
Safe at home: prevention of pediatric unintentional injuries	6
Vehicle traffic as a determinant of community firearm violence	6
A joinpoint analysis examining trends in firearm injuries at six us trauma centers from 2016 to 2022	6
Geospatial estimates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt prevalence in the U.S. veteran population (2022)	6
R2DRV: study protocol for longitudinal assessment of driving after mild TBI in young drivers	6
An intervention to improve safe firearm storage for adolescents presenting with suicide ideation or attempt in a pediatric emergency department	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
Neighborhood collective efficacy and environmental exposure to firearm homicide among a national sample of adolescents	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
They built this city—construction workers injured in Delhi, India: cross-sectional analysis of First Information Reports of the Delhi Police 2016–2018	5
Research utility and limitations of textual data in the National Violent Death Reporting System: a scoping review and recommendations	5
Development and implementation of an injury and illness surveillance system for team USA	5
Pediatric firearm injury epidemiology at a level 1 trauma center from 2019 to 2021: including time of the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Perceived neighborhood crime and gun carrying behavior: examining the role of a history of traumatic brain injury	5
Extortion experiences of recent adult immigrants from Latin America: self-reported prevalence, associated costs, and current mental health	5
Neighborhood predictors of suicide and firearm suicide in Detroit, Michigan	5
Impact of standardization on racial and socioeconomic disparities in non-accidental trauma evaluations in infants in a pediatric emergency department	5
Pediatric lawn mower-related injuries and contributing factors for bystander injuries	5
Pre- and postnatal safe sleep knowledge and planned as compared to actual infant sleep practices	5
Extreme risk protection order use in six US states: a descriptive study	5
A multicenter evaluation of pediatric emergency department injury visits during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Evolution of the risk of death and hospitalisation in drivers involved in road crashes in spain, 1993–2020: an age-period-cohort analysis	5
Fatal and non-fatal firearm-related injuries in Canada, 2016–2020: a population-based study using three administrative databases	5
Storage of firearms in vehicles: findings from a sample of firearm owners in nine U.S. states	5
Association of prior criminal charges and convictions with subsequent violent and firearm-related crime: a retrospective cohort study	5
Caregiver water safety knowledge and views of toddler water competency	5

A multi-state evaluation of extreme risk protection orders: a research protocol	5
Self-harm emergency department visits in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a sentinel surveillance system	4
Correction: Views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA: findings from a nationally representative survey	4
The epidemiology of firework-related injuries in the US, 2012–2022	4
Connecticut providers knowledge and attitudes towards use of extreme risk protection orders	4
Occupational burn injuries in Finland 2011–2015	4
Impact of cable lock distribution on firearm securement after emergent mental health evaluation: a randomized controlled trial	4
CHASE (Children’s Housing Assessment for a Safe Environment): a protocol for the inspection and modification of injury risks in children’s homes	4
Racial and incident discrepancies in news media reporting of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID)	4
Repeat self-harm hospitalizations in Canada: a survival analysis	4
Ambient air pollution and the risk of violence in primary and secondary school settings: a cross-sectional study	4
Drowning is fast, silent, and preventable: a Texas example of research in action	4
Pediatric outdoor recreational injuries: another hidden concern during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Survivor perspectives on research priorities for assessing mental health outcomes after school shootings: a qualitative study	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
Principles of musculoskeletal sport injuries for epidemiologists: a review	4
Accuracy of the national violent death reporting system in identifying unintentional firearm deaths to children by children	3
Trends in firearm death among middle and high-school aged rural and urban adolescents from 2001 to 2022	3
Recreational off-highway vehicle exposure, safety behaviors and crash experiences among adolescents	3
Epidemiology of traumatic cervical spinal fractures in a general Norwegian population	3
Redlining, reinvestment, and racial segregation: a bayesian spatial analysis of mortgage lending trajectories and firearm-related violence	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
Structural racism and intimate partner violence perpetration among racially diverse men transitioning into fatherhood: an anti-racist approach to IPV prevention	3
A descriptive and comparative analysis of injuries reported in USA Cycling-sanctioned competitive road cycling events	3
Changes in suicide in California from 2017 to 2021: a population-based study	3
Characteristics and neighborhood-level opportunity of assault-injured children in Milwaukee	3
Socioeconomic disparities and severity of gunshot injuries in Israel: a retrospective review of National Trauma Registry data from public hospitals 2019–2022	3
Rural adolescent attitudes and use of helmets while riding ATVs, motorcycles and dirt bikes	3
Firearm locking device preferences among firearm owners in the USA: a systematic review	3
Protocolized abuse screening to decrease provider bias and increase capture of potential events	3
Safe system approach to preventing cyclist fatalities: safety by design for urban and rural environments	2
Impact of COVID-related policies on gunshot wound assault hospitalizations in the United States: a statewide time series analysis	2
Women Veterans’ experiences discussing household firearms with their intimate partners: collaborative, devalued, and deferential relational types	2
Evaluation of a prison violence prevention program: impacts on violent and non-violent prison infractions	2
Age-related mortality risk in cycling trauma: analysis of the National Trauma Databank 2017–2023	2
Probabilistic data linkage to study the epidemiology of unintentional fatal drowning in a large metropolitan region	2
A content analysis of the Orbeez® Gel Blaster injury challenge on TikTok	2
Functional limitations and firearm purchases among low-income U.S. military veterans	2
Epidemiology of maxillofacial injury among adults in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review	2
Utilizing Haddon matrix to assess nonfatal commercial fishing injury factors in Oregon and Washington	2
The contributions of injury deaths to the gender gap in life expectancy and life disparity in Eastern Mediterranean Region	2
Epidemiology of adult trauma injuries in Malawi: results from a multisite trauma registry	2
Expectations of and perceived need for civil war in the USA: findings from a 2023 nationally representative survey	2
Therapeutic errors involving diabetes medications reported to United States poison centers	2
Pediatric trauma burden in Tanzania: analysis of prospective registry data from thirteen health facilities	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
Ghost guns and crime: a tale of two California cities	2
Bayesian methods for estimating injury rates in sport injury epidemiology	2
Firework-related injuries treated at emergency departments in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 compared to 2018–2019	2
American Indian and Alaska Native violence prevention efforts: a systematic review, 1980 to 2018	2
Fine particulate matter exposure and risk of scooter collisions among older adults	2
Psychological distress 12 years following injury in New Zealand: findings from the Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study-10 years on (POIS-10)	2
Weapon use during the index offense: a study among forensic psychiatry patients in Ontario, Canada	2
Reducing fall injuries with better data	2
Using EMS data to explore community-level factors associated with firearm violence in North Carolina	2
A systematic review of demographic and background factors associated with the development of children’s aquatic competence	2
Importance of categories of crime for predicting future violent crime among handgun purchasers in California	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
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
Understanding co-production of injury research in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: a comprehensive scoping review	2
Unlicensed driving among young drivers in North Carolina: a quasi-induced exposure analysis	2