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Accident Analysis and Prevention
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Accident Analysis and Prevention

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 74 91 369 51

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 290
Documents by Best Scientists*: 581
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 201
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.007
Impact Factor: 6.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Accident Analysis & Prevention?

The journal facilitates discussions on Injury prevention, Occupational safety and health, Human factors and ergonomics, Transport engineering and Suicide prevention. Injury prevention research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Environmental health, Demography, Medical emergency, Risk assessment and Forensic engineering. Many of the studies tackled connect Occupational safety and health with a similar field of study like Seat belt.

Computer security, Social psychology, Applied psychology and Perception are some topics wherein Human factors and ergonomics research discussed in it have an impact. Accident Analysis & Prevention facilitates discussions on Transport engineering that incorporate concepts from other fields like Collision, Statistics and Truck. The research on Statistics discussed in the journal draws on the closely related field of Simulation.

  • Injury prevention (44.86%)
  • Occupational safety and health (37.84%)
  • Human factors and ergonomics (36.75%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Driving speed and the risk of road crashes: a review. (755 citations)
  • Thirty years of safety climate research: Reflections and future directions (677 citations)
  • Sensation seeking and risky driving: a review and synthesis of the literature (672 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Accident Analysis & Prevention:

The most cited articles generally zeroe in on subjects such as Injury prevention, Human factors and ergonomics, Occupational safety and health, Transport engineering and Suicide prevention. In addition to Injury prevention research, the most cited papers aim to explore topics under Pedestrian, Environmental health, Demography, Risk assessment and Forensic engineering. The study of Transport engineering in the journal publications encompasses disciplines such as Statistics, as well as fields such as Simulation and Econometrics, all of which overlap with one another.

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Accident Analysis & Prevention (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Mohamed Abdel-Aty (109 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Rune Elvik (91 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Allan F. Williams (47 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tarek Sayed (46 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Dominique Lord (45 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Accident Analysis & Prevention (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Queensland University of Technology (183 papers) published 27 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Monash University (153 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Michigan (138 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Central Florida (136 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (119 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 5.69% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.65% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.46% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.31% of all publications and 50.58% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • A review of surrogate safety measures and their applications in connected and automated vehicles safety modeling.

    Chen Wang;Yuanchang Xie;Helai Huang;Pan Liu

    (2021)
    388 Citations
  • Real-time crash risk prediction on arterials based on LSTM-CNN.

    Pei Li;Mohamed Abdel-Aty;Jinghui Yuan

    (2020)
    360 Citations
  • A systematic mapping review of surrogate safety assessment using traffic conflict techniques.

    Ashutosh Arun;Mazharul Haque;Ashish Bhaskar;Simon Washington

    (2021)
    262 Citations
  • A review of spatial approaches in road safety

    Apostolos Ziakopoulos;George Yannis

    (2020)
    221 Citations
  • Influence of traffic congestion on driver behavior in post-congestion driving.

    Guofa Li;Weijian Lai;Xiaoxuan Sui;Xiaohang Li

    (2020)
    209 Citations
  • Predicting real-time traffic conflicts using deep learning

    Nicolette Formosa;Mohammed Quddus;Stephen Ison;Mohamed Abdel-Aty

    (2020)
    195 Citations
  • The impact of the connected environment on driving behavior and safety: a driving simulator study

    Yasir Ali;Anshuman Sharma;Md. Mazharul Haque;Zuduo Zheng

    (2020)
    173 Citations
  • Exploratory analysis of automated vehicle crashes in California: A text analytics & hierarchical Bayesian heterogeneity-based approach.

    Alexandra M. Boggs;Behram Wali;Asad J. Khattak

    (2020)
    149 Citations
  • Cyber-attacks in the next-generation cars, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness and future directions.

    Shah Khalid Khan;Nirajan Shiwakoti;Peter Stasinopoulos;Yilun Chen

    (2020)
    146 Citations
  • Crash data augmentation using variational autoencoder.

    Zubayer Islam;Mohamed Abdel-Aty;Qing Cai;Jinghui Yuan

    (2021)
    129 Citations

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