OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements	66
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume	52
GAMBUT field measurement of emissions from a tropical peatland fire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression	41
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers	40
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia	32
Influence of fuel structure on gorse fire behaviour	32
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland	31
Systematising experts’ understanding of traditional burning in Portugal: a mental model approach	29
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia	29
Fuelling future fires: predicting variation in fuel hazard and availability across an environmental gradient	27
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning	25
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	25
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires	25
Special issue editorial team	24
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States	23
Understanding variability in heat yields of wet sclerophyll forest fuels	22
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios	21
The Missing Wind in Wildfire Science	21
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public	21
The US Forest Service Life First safety initiative: exploring unnecessary exposure to risk	20
The Duff Moisture Code and the limits of sustainable combustion: examining the evidence for a widely used threshold	20
Effects of the wildfires in August 2021 on the air quality of Athens through a numerical simulation	19
LPG stored at the wildland–urban interface: recent events and the effects of jet fires and BLEVE	18
Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System†	17
Comparing gas composition from fast pyrolysis of live foliage measured in bench-scale and fire-scale experiments	17

Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger	17
Effects of fuel bed structure on heat transfer mechanisms within and above porous fuel beds in quiescent flame spread scenarios	17
A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada	17
Shifting conflict into collaboration: peatland fires mitigation in the biosphere conservation transition zone in Sumatra, Indonesia	17
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2†	16
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?	16
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present	16
Addressing firefighter concerns: unraveling the complexities of bushfire smoke composition and toxicity	16
Comprehensive methodology for tracking burning firebrands in a vertical wind tunnel using multi-view video analysis	16
Sand and fire: applying the sandpile model of self-organised criticality to wildfire mitigation†	16
Evaluating wildfire vulnerability of Mediterranean dwellings using fuzzy logic applied to expert judgement	15
BARA: cellular automata simulation of multidimensional smouldering in peat with horizontally varying moisture contents	15
Evaluating the relationships between wildfires and drought using machine learning	15
Wildfire aerial thermal image segmentation using unsupervised methods: a multilayer level set approach	14
Fire severity and plant productivity recovery in a mixed grass prairie wildfire driven by extreme winds	14
The role of helicity and fire–atmosphere turbulent energy transport in potential wildfire behaviour	14
Firebrand burning under wind: an experimental study	14
Table of Contents	14
Containment lines, PODs and suppression success: A case study of the 2021 Schneider Springs Fire	14
Calculating fire danger of cured grasslands in temperate climates – the elements of the Grassland Fire Index (GLFI)	14
Impact of fire suppressant on seed germination and seedling emergence of native and introduced flora from a Western Australian eucalypt woodland	13
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: special issue introduction (Part 4)	13
Interaction between two parallel fire fronts under different wind conditions	13
Between a rock and a hot place: do surface shelters facilitate survivable conditions for small vertebrates during prescribed fire?	13
Restoring fire management to Australian deserts: progress after a decade of burning	13
Field-based generic empirical flame length–fireline intensity relationships for wildland surface fires	13
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes†	13
Exploring the influence of the Keetch–Byram Drought Index and McArthur’s Drought Factor on wildfire incidence in Victoria, Australia	13
Characterising spatial clusters of forest fire activity in the Western Himalayan region of India: implications for conservation and management	13
Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021	13
Review of thermal behaviour of firebrands and their role in fuel bed and structure ignition	13
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 1)	13
The response of reptiles and mammals to fire-driven vegetation succession in semi-arid Triodia-mallee woodlands	12
Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems	12
Australian Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype†	12
Modelling chamise fuel moisture content across California: a machine learning approach	11
Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area	11
An evaluation of empirical and statistically based smoke plume injection height parametrisations used within air quality models	11
The 1986 Annaburroo experimental grassland fires: data	11
Can the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS)-1978 of the United States be effective in other regions? Israel as a case study	11
Predicting daily initial attack aircraft targets in British Columbia	11
Table of Contents	11
Table of Contents	11
Risk perceptions after wildfires: insights from Bijie, China and comparisons with other countries	11
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas. Part 2 – fire hazard assessment of the different land management scenarios	10
Developing an impact index for the Australian Fire Danger Rating System: predicting potential structure loss from wildfires	10
Burned vegetation recovery trajectory and its driving factors using satellite remote-sensing datasets in the Great Xing’An forest region of Inner Mongolia	10
Archetypes and change in wildfire risk perceptions, behaviours and intentions among adults in Tasmania, Australia	10
Quantifying the flammability of living plants at the branch scale: which metrics to use?	10
Detecting burnt severity and vegetation regrowth classes using a change vector analysis approach: a case study in the southern part of Sumatra, Indonesia	10

Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors	10
Review of approaches and challenges for the validation of satellite-based active fire products in savannah ecosystems	9
Corrigendum to : Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	9
Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires	9
Offsetting the noise: a framework for applying phenological offset corrections in remotely sensed burn severity assessments	9
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†	9
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!	9
A phenology-driven fire danger index for northern grasslands	9
Fire weather severity in southern Africa is increasing faster and more extensively in the late than in the early dry season	9
Sub-hourly forecasting of fire potential using machine learning on time series of surface weather variables	9
Impact of wildfire smoke, heat stress and sleep deprivation on the brain health of wildland firefighters	9
Tree spatial pattern and mortality prediction in burned patches of Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii Rupr.) forest that experienced a mixed-severity wildfire	9
Early forest flame and smoke detection based on improved feature extraction module with enhanced image processing inspired by YOLOV7	9
Decadal scale fire dynamics in savannas and forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India	9
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers	9
Future fire events are likely to be worse than climate projections indicate – these are some of the reasons why	9
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update	9
Pre-fire assessment of post-fire debris-flow hazards in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed	9
Social science to advance wildfire adaptation in the southwestern United States: a review and future research directions	8
A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants	8
Causal Analysis of Fire Regime Drivers in California	8
Fireline production rate of handcrews in wildfires of the Spanish Mediterranean region	8
Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm	8
Table of Contents	8
Roles and experiences of non-governmental organisations in wildfire response and recovery	8
Atmospheric turbulence and wildland fires: a review	8
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework	8
Assessing the suppression difficulty of Wildland fires for Initial Attack Response	8
Five Suns. A Fire History of Mexico	7
Table of Contents	7
Fatigue in wildland firefighting: relationships between sleep, shift characteristics, and cognitive function	7
Conifer encroachment increases foliar moisture content in a northwestern California oak woodland	7
Impact of fire return interval on pyrogenic carbon stocks in a tropical savanna, North Queensland, Australia	7
Table of Contents	7
Three fuel models for predicting urban fire spread – a stopgap for emergency management in the US	7
Do you CBI what I see? The relationship between the Composite Burn Index and quantitative field measures of burn severity varies across gradients of forest structure	7
Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change	7
A comment on the use of visually assessed fuel hazard ratings and scores for Australian fire management and research	7
A note on fire weather indices	7
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria	7
An evaluation of wildland fire simulators used operationally in Australia	7
Economic Efficiency of Fuel Treatments in Western U.S. Forests: A Methodological Framework	7
Assessing changes in high-intensity fire events in south-eastern Australia using Fourier Transform Infra-red (FITR) spectroscopy	6
Characterizing fire history on military land using machine learning and landsat imagery	6
Professional wildfire mitigation competency: a potential policy gap	6
Intermittent fireline behaviour over porous vegetative media in different crossflow conditions	6
Exploring the impact of airtanker drops on in-stand temperature and relative humidity	6
A comparison of smoke modelling tools used to mitigate air quality impacts from prescribed burning	6
Burning from the ground up: the structure and impact of Prescribed Burn Associations in the United States	6
Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem	6
Predicting immediate and delayed fire-induced mortality of Pinus monticola and Pseudotsuga menziesii saplings using a pyro-ecophysiology fire severity approach	6
A conservation-significant threatened mammal uses fire exclusions and shifts ranges in the presence of prescribed burning	6
Organisational influence on the co-production of fire science: overcoming challenges and realising opportunities	6
Reviewing Stephen J. Pyne’s To the Last Smoke series: putting the people in the pyrocene	6
Residual forest structure influences behaviour of Pacific marten (Martes caurina) on post-fire landscapes	6
Experimental and numerical fire behaviour analysis in Eucalyptus globulus trees	6
Strategies to reduce wildfire smoke in frequently impacted communities in south-western Oregon	6
Consistent, high-accuracy mapping of daily and sub-daily wildfire growth with satellite observations	6