Injury Prevention
is an online-only, peer reviewed journal covering content on all injury prevention in all contexts.
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Citescore: 5.3
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Authors
Injury Prevention considers unsolicited submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, systematic reviews, and methodology articles.
The Author Information section provides provides general guidelines as well as requirements for specific article types.
Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.
All manuscripts should be submitted online.
Latest Articles
Special feature:
Potential for advances in data linkage and data science to support injury prevention research3 October 2024
Special feature:
Answering the call for better science: an update on SAVIRs efforts to advance antiracism in injury and violence research2 October 2024
Short report:
Bullying victimisation and perpetration of foster and kinship youth in the USA2 October 2024
Original research:
Population-level effects on crime of recovering firearms from armed prohibited persons: intention-to-treat analysis of a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial in California cities2 October 2024
Original research:
Consumer product-related female genital injuries in the USA from 2013 to 20222 October 2024
Most Read Articles
Original research:
Trends and patterns of violence-related mortality in Nigeria: evidence from a 16-year analysis of secondary data27 November 2023
Original research:
Sport-related major trauma incidence in young people and adults in England and Wales: a national registry-based study25 January 2024
Original research:
Estimating the ratio of fatal to non-fatal overdoses involving all drugs, all opioids, synthetic opioids, heroin or stimulants, USA, 2010–202020 March 2024
Original research:
Sleep characteristics and adolescent physical activity-related injuries in sports clubs, leisure time and schools20 March 2024
Abstracts: Safety 2024
Injury Prevention was the official journal of Safety 2024, the 15th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, which took place 2nd-4th September 2024 in New Delhi, India.
Current Issue
State of the art review:
Intersection of adverse childhood experiences, suicide and overdose prevention1 October 2024
Systematic review:
Interventions that address interpersonal violence experienced by adolescents globally: a systematic review of reviews1 October 2024
Original research:
Lifetime non-fatal overdose experiences among at-risk adolescents and young adults in the emergency department with past-year opioid use in the USA1 October 2024
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Injury Prevention - Our Full Story
Listen to Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Caroline Finch, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the advice she has for authors thinking about submitting to the journal, what the journal has to offer to readers and what the journal has planned for 2024.
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