OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements	55
Review of approaches and challenges for the validation of satellite-based active fire products in savannah ecosystems	41
The relationship between wind speed and satellite measurements of fire radiative power	39
Traditional use of field burning in Ireland: history, culture and contemporary practice in the uplands	38
Future regional increases in simultaneous large Western USA wildfires	30
Fire – the influence of an extreme habitat disturbance on a threatened population of Desmoulin’s whorl snail: a case study from Poland	26
Corrigendum to: Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021	26
Book Review	26
Tree spatial pattern and mortality prediction in burned patches of Dahurian larch (	23
A dynamic and evidence-based approach to mapping burn potential	23
IJWF Outstanding Associate Editor Award 2021: Marc-André Parisien	22
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<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Integrating remotely sensed fuel variables into wildfire danger assessment for China	19
Recent change of burned area associated with summer heat extremes over Iberia	19
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Corrigendum to: Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype	16
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers	16
Prescribed burning on private land: reflections on recent law reform in Australia and California	15
Mapping the ethical landscape of wildland fire management: setting an agendum for research and deliberation on the applied ethics of wildland fire	15
Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires	15
Likelihood of implementing fuel reduction treatments on nonindustrial private forest lands	14
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States	14
‘Any prediction is better than none’? A study of the perceptions of fire behaviour analysis users in Australia	14
MODIS-based smoke detection shows that daily smoke cover dampens fire severity in initial burns but not reburns in complex terrain	14

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The potential of using magnetic susceptibility to identify past wildfires in Australia	14
Drivers of international fire management personnel deployed to the United States	14
Grasshopper abundance and offtake increase after prescribed fire in semi-arid grassland	14
Variability in wildland fuel patches following high-severity fire and post-fire treatments in the northern Sierra Nevada	14
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland	13
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia	13
FireFormer: an efficient Transformer to identify forest fire from surveillance cameras	13
Fire propensity in Amazon savannas and rainforest and effects under future climate change	13
An analysis of fatalities from forest fires in China, 1951–2018	12
A framework for defining fire danger to support fire management operations in Australia†	12
Effect of initial generating eddy height on formation and flame geometry of fire whirl	11
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†	11
Post-wildfire contamination of soils and sediments by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in north-central British Columbia, Canada	11
Interactions of non-intersecting oblique lines of fire burning in surface fuels in a combustion wind tunnel with and without wind	11
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!	11
Corrigendum to: Extending methods for assessing fuel hazard in temperate Australia to enhance data quality and consistency	11
GAMBUT field measurement of emissions from a tropical peatland fire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression	11
Mapping smouldering fire potential in boreal peatlands and assessing interactions with the wildland–human interface in Alberta, Canada	11
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning	10
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume	10
Fire whirls induced by a line fire on a windward slope: a laboratory-scale study	10
Systematising experts’ understanding of traditional burning in Portugal: a mental model approach	10
Influence of fuel structure on gorse fire behaviour	10
Vegetation phenology as a key driver for fire occurrence in the UK and comparable humid temperate regions	10
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public	10
Linking crown fire likelihood with post-fire spectral variability in Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems	10
Quantifying burned area of wildfires in the western United States from polar-orbiting and geostationary satellite active-fire detections	10
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia	9
Impacts of changing fire regimes on hollow-bearing trees in south-eastern Australia	9
Tree height is more important than bark thickness, leaf habit or habitat preference to survive fire in the cerrado of south-east Brazil	9
Observations of wildfire spread dynamics in southern Australian grasslands	9
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	9
Post-fire clumping of seedlings of Cape Proteaceae species: ecological, evolutionary and conservation implications	9
Pre-fire assessment of post-fire debris-flow hazards in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed	9
Spot ignition of a wildland fire and its transition to propagation	9
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update	9
Before the fire: predicting burn severity and potential post-fire debris-flow hazards to conservation populations of the Colorado River Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii pleuriticus)	9
An exploratory analysis of forest fine fuel consumption and accumulation using forest inventory data and fire history	8
More smoke today for less smoke tomorrow? We need to better understand the public health benefits and costs of prescribed fire	8
Predicting terrain-induced wind turbulence for smokejumper parachute operations	8
Long-term post-fire succession of reptiles in an urban remnant in south-western Australia	8
Modelling initial attack success on forest fires suppressed by air attack in the province of Ontario, Canada	8
Factors influencing the development of violent pyroconvection. Part II: fire geometry and intensity	8
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires	8
Collective action for managing wildfire risk across boundaries in forest and range landscapes: lessons from case studies in the western United States	8
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers	8
Early forest flame and smoke detection based on improved feature extraction module with enhanced image processing inspired by YOLOV7	8
Delayed effect of thermal treatment on breaking physical seed dormancy: intrapopulation variation and implications for soil seed banks	8
Study on the ground fraction of air tankers	8

A phenology-driven fire danger index for northern grasslands	7
Physics-based modelling for mapping firebrand flux and heat load on structures in the wildland–urban interface	7
Dynamic simulation of fire propagation in forests and rangelands using a GIS-based cellular automata model	7
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Contemporary (1984–2020) fire history metrics for the conterminous United States and ecoregional differences by land ownership	7
Signs of resilience in resprouting	7
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada	7
Re-examining the assumption of dominant regional wind and fire spread directions	7
Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis	7
Australian Fire Danger Rating System Research Prototype: a climatology†	7
The US Forest Service Life First safety initiative: exploring unnecessary exposure to risk	7
Improved logistic models of crown fire probability in Canadian conifer forests	7
Rapid wind–terrain correction for wildfire simulations	7
An approach to integrated data management for three-dimensional, time-dependent fire behaviour model evaluation	7
Fires and their key drivers in Mexico	7
Deep peat fire persistently smouldering for weeks: a laboratory demonstration	7
Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 1	6
Pattern recognition and modelling of virulent wildfires in Spain	6
Slope effect on junction fire with two non-symmetric fire fronts	6
Automated classification of fuel types using roadside images via deep learning	6
Field and full-scale laboratory testing of prototype wildland fire shelters	6
QES-Fire: a dynamically coupled fast-response wildfire model	6
Predicting burn severity for integration with post-fire debris-flow hazard assessment: a case study from the Upper Colorado River Basin, USA	6
Extension of the Balbi fire spread model to include the field scale conditions of shrubland fires	6
Simulation-based high-resolution fire danger mapping using deep learning	6
Transitioning operational satellite grassland curing from MODIS to VIIRS	6
Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm	6
Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger	6
An efficient, multi-scale neighbourhood index to quantify wildfire likelihood	6
A high-fidelity ensemble simulation framework for interrogating wildland-fire behaviour and benchmarking machine learning models	6
Co-management during crisis: insights from jurisdictionally complex wildfires	6
The distributed strategy for asynchronous observations in data-driven wildland fire spread prediction	6
Factors influencing ember accumulation near a building	6
Objective identification of thunderstorm gust fronts in numerical weather prediction models for fire weather forecasting	6
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Using PODs to integrate fire and fuels planning	6
Development of a scale for recruitment of forest fire workers using confirmatory factor analysis	6
Bark charcoal reflectance may have the potential to estimate the heat delivered to tree boles by wildland fires	5
Improved laboratory method to test flammability metrics of live plants under dynamic conditions and future implications	5
Wildland fire prevention: the impact of the Modifying Industrial Operations Protocol on the growth of industrial forestry-caused wildland fires in Ontario, Canada	5
Simulating wildfire spread based on continuous time series remote sensing images and cellular automata	5
On the interaction of wind, fire intensity and downslope terrain with implications for building standards in wildfire-prone areas	5
Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	5
On the non-monotonic behaviour of fire spread	5
Fuel burning efficiency under various fire severities of a boreal forest landscape in north-east China	5
The Duff Moisture Code and the limits of sustainable combustion: examining the evidence for a widely used threshold	5
A multi-scale assessment of fire scar mapping in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia	5
The process of vegetation recovery and burn probability changes in post-burn boreal forests in northeast China	5
Disentangling the factors of spatio-temporal patterns of wildfire activity in south-eastern France	5
Towards a wildfire vulnerability index using expert judgement	5
Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 2	5