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Sanjurjo-De-No ACorresponding AuthorArenas-Ramirez BAuthorMira JAuthorAparicio-Izquierdo FAuthorDriver liability assessment in vehicle collisions in Spain
Publicated to:International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health. 18 (4): 1475-18 - 2021-02-01 18(4), DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18041475
Authors: Sanjurjo-de-No, Almudena; Arenas-Ramirez, Blanca; Mira, Jose; Aparicio-Izquierdo, Francisco
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Abstract
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. An accurate estimation of exposure is essential for road collision rate estimation, which is key when evaluating the impact of road safety measures. The quasi-induced exposure method was developed to estimate relative exposure for different driver groups based on its main hypothesis: the not-at-fault drivers involved in two-vehicle collisions are taken as a random sample of driver populations. Liability assignment is thus crucial in this method to identify not-at-fault drivers, but often no liability labels are given in collision records, so unsupervised analysis tools are required. To date, most researchers consider only driver and speed offences in liability assignment, but an open question is if more information could be added. To this end, in this paper, the visual clustering technique of self-organizing maps (SOM) has been applied to better understand the multivariate structure in the data, to find out the most important variables for driver liability, analyzing their influence, and to identify relevant liability patterns. The results show that alcohol/drug use could be influential on liability and further analysis is required for disability and sudden illness. More information has been used, given that a larger proportion of the data was considered. SOM thus appears as a promising tool for liability assessment.
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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel
The work has been published in the journal International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.65, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)
Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-14, the following number of citations:
- WoS: 4
- Scopus: 5
- Europe PMC: 2
Impact and social visibility
Leadership analysis of institutional authors
There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (SANJURJO DE NO, MARIA ALMUDENA) and Last Author (APARICIO IZQUIERDO, FRANCISCO).
the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been SANJURJO DE NO, MARIA ALMUDENA.