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Injury Epidemiology and Prevention

Injury Epidemiology and Prevention is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the global burden of unintentional injuries among children and adolescents, with a particular emphasis on drowning, helmet efficacy, parental supervision, and the role of socioeconomic factors. It covers epidemiological studies, injury prevention strategies, behavioral risk factors, and the impact of various interventions.

  • Child Injury
  • Unintentional Injuries
  • Drowning
  • Injury Prevention
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Helmet Efficacy
  • Parental Supervision
  • Epidemiology
  • Behavioral Risk Factors
  • Global Burden
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Injury Epidemiology and Prevention research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (1.7k and 668 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 Brazil 668 works
  3. 3 China 386 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 350 works
  5. 5 Australia 323 works
  6. 6 India 312 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 246 works
  8. 8 Canada 244 works
  9. 9 Iran 135 works
  10. 10 Japan 133 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 37.7%Brazil: 14.9%China: 8.6%United Kingdom: 7.8%6 others listed: 31.1%38%largest
United States1,692 · 37.7%Brazil668 · 14.9%China386 · 8.6%United Kingdom350 · 7.8%6 others listed1,395 · 31.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Injury Epidemiology and Prevention research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Injury Epidemiology and Prevention research, followed by Johns Hopkins University and United States Department of Health and Human Services.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 43 works
  2. 2 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 36 works
  3. 3 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 34 works
  4. 4 Monash UniversityAustralia 31 works
  5. 5 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 31 works
  6. 6 University of WashingtonUnited States 30 works
  7. 7 UNSW SydneyAustralia 29 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 27 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 27 works
  10. 10 University of British ColumbiaCanada 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Injury Epidemiology and Prevention?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Injury Epidemiology and Prevention include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  5. 5 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  6. 6 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  7. 7 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  8. 8 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  9. 9 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  10. 10 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Injury Epidemiology and Prevention?

The most cited paper in Injury Epidemiology and Prevention is "Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010" (Christopher J L Murray et al., 2012), with 9,055 citations. Next come "Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015" (7,466) and "Risk Factors for Falls among Elderly Persons Living in the Community" (6,593).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 Christopher J L Murray et al. · The Lancet Open access362 authors Dec 2012 9,055
2 Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 Theo Vos et al. · The Lancet Open access637 authors Oct 2016 7,466
3 Risk Factors for Falls among Elderly Persons Living in the Community Mary E. Tinetti, Mark R. Speechley, Sandra F. Ginter · New England Journal of Medicine 29 Dec 1988 6,593
4 Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Theo Vos et al. · The Lancet Open access679 authors 7 Jun 2015 6,558
5 Determinants of disparities between perceived and physiological risk of falling among elderly people: cohort study. Kim Delbaere, Jacqueline Close, Henry Brodaty et al. · PubMed Open access 18 Aug 2010 5,433
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Where is Injury Epidemiology and Prevention research done?

The largest centres of Injury Epidemiology and Prevention research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 88 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 81 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 74 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 66 works
  5. 5 SydneyAustralia 66 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 64 works
  7. 7 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 58 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 55 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 54 works
  10. 10 AtlantaUnited States 50 works
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Where is the best place to study Injury Epidemiology and Prevention?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Central Florida, Harvard University and UNSW Sydney score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Centra…University of Washin…Harvard UniversityUNSW Sydney
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Central FloridaUnited States 63.941.4%4.9×10 +53.0%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 57.816.2%2.3×43 -10.8%
3UNSW SydneyAustralia 57.614.8%5.5×29 -0.1%
4University of WashingtonUnited States 55.116.4%4.6×30 -6.9%
5Southeast UniversityChina 52.932.5%1.2×11 +53.0%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 51.110.2%4.1×36 -11.6%
7Monash UniversityAustralia 50.615.1%5.5×31 -27.4%
8Medical College of WisconsinUnited States 48.928.1%8.7×14 +59.0%
9Virginia TechUnited States 48.321.1%4.5×15 +32.1%
10Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 46.831.5%5.9×12 -44.3%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, country by country

Is Injury Epidemiology and Prevention research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Injury Epidemiology and Prevention as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Injury Epidemiology and Prevention0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Injury Epidemiology and Prevention over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Injury Epidemiology and Prevention10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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