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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of fuel structure on gorse fire behaviour	65
GAMBUT field measurement of emissions from a tropical peatland fire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression	46
Systematising experts’ understanding of traditional burning in Portugal: a mental model approach	45
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume	36
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements	35
Fuelling future fires: predicting variation in fuel hazard and availability across an environmental gradient	29
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires	29
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States	29
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public	28
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada	28
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning	28
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia	25
Understanding variability in heat yields of wet sclerophyll forest fuels	25
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia	25
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland	23
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers	22
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	21
An approach to integrated data management for three-dimensional, time-dependent fire behaviour model evaluation	21
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios	21
Shifting conflict into collaboration: peatland fires mitigation in the biosphere conservation transition zone in Sumatra, Indonesia	19
Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System†	19
Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger	19
The Duff Moisture Code and the limits of sustainable combustion: examining the evidence for a widely used threshold	18
The US Forest Service Life First safety initiative: exploring unnecessary exposure to risk	18
Effects of the wildfires in August 2021 on the air quality of Athens through a numerical simulation	18

LPG stored at the wildland–urban interface: recent events and the effects of jet fires and BLEVE	17
A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada	17
Effects of fuel bed structure on heat transfer mechanisms within and above porous fuel beds in quiescent flame spread scenarios	16
Fire severity and plant productivity recovery in a mixed grass prairie wildfire driven by extreme winds	16
Firebrand burning under wind: an experimental study	16
Sand and fire: applying the sandpile model of self-organised criticality to wildfire mitigation	16
Evaluating the relationships between wildfires and drought using machine learning	16
Evaluating wildfire vulnerability of Mediterranean dwellings using fuzzy logic applied to expert judgement	15
Comparing gas composition from fast pyrolysis of live foliage measured in bench-scale and fire-scale experiments	15
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2	15
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present	14
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: special issue introduction (Part 4)	14
Impact of fire suppressant on seed germination and seedling emergence of native and introduced flora from a Western Australian eucalypt woodland	14
BARA: cellular automata simulation of multidimensional smouldering in peat with horizontally varying moisture contents	14
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?	14
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 1)	14
Characterising spatial clusters of forest fire activity in the Western Himalayan region of India: implications for conservation and management	14
Wildfire aerial thermal image segmentation using unsupervised methods: a multilayer level set approach	14
Table of Contents	14
The role of helicity and fire–atmosphere turbulent energy transport in potential wildfire behaviour	14
Review of thermal behaviour of firebrands and their role in fuel bed and structure ignition	13
Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021	13
Field-based generic empirical flame length–fireline intensity relationships for wildland surface fires	13
Calculating fire danger of cured grasslands in temperate climates – the elements of the Grassland Fire Index (GLFI)	13
Interaction between two parallel fire fronts under different wind conditions	13
The 1986 Annaburroo experimental grassland fires: data	12
Table of Contents	12
Table of Contents	12
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes†	12
Predicting daily initial attack aircraft targets in British Columbia	12
Short- and long-term effects of surface fires on heat stress protein content in Scots pine needles	12
Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area	11
Australian Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype†	11
Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems	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
An evaluation of empirical and statistically based smoke plume injection height parametrisations used within air quality models	11
Modelling chamise fuel moisture content across California: a machine learning approach	11
Burned vegetation recovery trajectory and its driving factors using satellite remote-sensing datasets in the Great Xing’An forest region of Inner Mongolia	11
Between a rock and a hot place: do surface shelters facilitate survivable conditions for small vertebrates during prescribed fire?	10
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas. Part 2 – fire hazard assessment of the different land management scenarios	10
Archetypes and change in wildfire risk perceptions, behaviours and intentions among adults in Tasmania, Australia	10
The response of reptiles and mammals to fire-driven vegetation succession in semi-arid Triodia-mallee woodlands	10
Decadal scale fire dynamics in savannas and forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India	10
Sub-hourly forecasting of fire potential using machine learning on time series of surface weather variables	10
Exploring the influence of the Keetch–Byram Drought Index and McArthur’s Drought Factor on wildfire incidence in Victoria, Australia	10
Fire mosaics in south-west Australian forest landscapes	10
Fire weather severity in southern Africa is increasing faster and more extensively in the late than in the early dry season	10
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors	10
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	9
Quantifying the flammability of living plants at the branch scale: which metrics to use?	9

Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires	9
Pre-fire assessment of post-fire debris-flow hazards in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed	9
Developing an impact index for the Australian Fire Danger Rating System: predicting potential structure loss from wildfires	9
Tree spatial pattern and mortality prediction in burned patches of Dahurian larch (	9
Review of approaches and challenges for the validation of satellite-based active fire products in savannah ecosystems	9
A phenology-driven fire danger index for northern grasslands	9
Detecting burnt severity and vegetation regrowth classes using a change vector analysis approach: a case study in the southern part of Sumatra, Indonesia	9
Comparing calibrated statistical and machine learning methods for wildland fire occurrence prediction: a case study of human-caused fires in Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada	9
Future fire events are likely to be worse than climate projections indicate – these are some of the reasons why	9
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†	9
Impact of fire return interval on pyrogenic carbon stocks in a tropical savanna, North Queensland, Australia	8
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update	8
Table of Contents	8
Fireline production rate of handcrews in wildfires of the Spanish Mediterranean region	8
Table of Contents	8
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework	8
A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants	8
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!	8
Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm	8
Social science to advance wildfire adaptation in the southwestern United States: a review and future research directions	8
Table of Contents	8
Early forest flame and smoke detection based on improved feature extraction module with enhanced image processing inspired by YOLOV7	8
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers	8
Impact of wildfire smoke, heat stress and sleep deprivation on the brain health of wildland firefighters	8
Atmospheric turbulence and wildland fires: a review	8
A comparison of smoke modelling tools used to mitigate air quality impacts from prescribed burning	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
Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem	7
Consistent, high-accuracy mapping of daily and sub-daily wildfire growth with satellite observations	7
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria	7
Assessing changes in high-intensity fire events in south-eastern Australia using Fourier Transform Infra-red (FITR) spectroscopy	7
Residual forest structure influences behaviour of Pacific marten (	7
Burning from the ground up: the structure and impact of Prescribed Burn Associations in the United States	7
Five Suns. A Fire History of Mexico	7
Roles and experiences of non-governmental organisations in wildfire response and recovery	7
Reviewing Stephen J. Pyne’s To the Last Smoke series: putting the people in the pyrocene	7
Professional wildfire mitigation competency: a potential policy gap	7
Intermittent fireline behaviour over porous vegetative media in different crossflow conditions	6
Conifer encroachment increases foliar moisture content in a northwestern California oak woodland	6
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Atmospheric turbulent structures and fire sweeps during shrub fires and implications for flaming zone behaviour	6
Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change	6
Experimental and numerical fire behaviour analysis in Eucalyptus globulus trees	6
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 2)	6
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	6
An evaluation of wildland fire simulators used operationally in Australia	6
Characterizing fire history on military land using machine learning and landsat imagery	6
Exploring the impact of airtanker drops on in-stand temperature and relative humidity	6