OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Fire Safety Journal is 26. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A systematic review focused on the identification and assessment of fire financial costs in buildings	71
The role of smoldering in the ignition of Pinus palustris needles	69
Numerical modelling of composite steel and concrete double-skin and double-tube square cross-section columns subjected to fire	58
A two-zone subgrid flame model for predicting radiant emission from fires	48
Shear Behavior of Lapped Connections Bolted by thread-fixed one-side bolts at elevated temperatures	43
Analysis of Chinese fire statistics during the period 1997–2017	41
Strength of thin-walled steel beams under non-uniform temperature: Analytical and machine learning models	40
Deep-learning-based data loss reconstruction for spatiotemporal temperature in piloti structures: Enhancing applicability with limited datasets	40
Flame heights and charring on a particle board – An experimental study	39
On the use of natural and forced convection correlations in predictive CFD simulations of liquid pool fires	39
Exploring single-line walking in immersive virtual reality	38
Inverse modelling of pyrolization kinetics with ensemble learning methods	37
Assessment of a PAH-based soot production model in laminar coflow methane diffusion flames doped by gasoline surrogate fuels	37
Containment and suppression of compartment fires using specialized liquid compositions	35
A pre-evacuation study using data from evacuation drills and false alarm evacuations in a university library	33
A study of the characteristics of smoke stratification in lateral point smoke exhaust tunnel	33
Laypeople in fire protection: Their motivation, their emotions, their value	32
High-performance real-time fire detection and forecasting framework for industrial cables	32
Fire propagation in a mechanically ventilated multi-compartment facility: OECD/NEA project PRISME 3	32
Generalization framework for varying characteristics of the firebrand generation and transport from structural fire source	31
Fire hazards of PMMA-based composites combined with expandable graphite and multi-walled carbon nanotubes: A comprehensive study	31
First responders' perceived and actual competence in tunnel fire safety	31
Online experiments and regression analysis of evacuation decisions in response to fire alarms	30
IAFSS workshop on education 2023 – Perspectives on the need for competence in fire safety engineering	29
Numerical design calculation of bolted lap joints at elevated temperatures	29

The response of diagrid structures to fire	27
Development of a fire prediction model at the urban planning stage: Ordinary least squares regression analysis of the area of urban land use and fire damage data in South Korea	26
Numerical analysis of the behaviour of a concrete floor in a steel-framed structure subject to a traveling fire	26
Effect of wind speed and direction on facade fire spread in an isolated rectangular building	26