OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	44
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia	43
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume	34
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland	34
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements	28
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	28
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers	28
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States	28
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia	28
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires	27
Fuelling future fires: predicting variation in fuel hazard and availability across an environmental gradient	24
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning	24
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada	24
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public	23
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios	22
Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger	21
Shifting conflict into collaboration: peatland fires mitigation in the biosphere conservation transition zone in Sumatra, Indonesia	20
An approach to integrated data management for three-dimensional, time-dependent fire behaviour model evaluation	20
Effects of the wildfires in August 2021 on the air quality of Athens through a numerical simulation	18
On the non-monotonic behaviour of fire spread	18
A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada	18
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

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
Firebrand burning under wind: an experimental study	16
Effects of fuel bed structure on heat transfer mechanisms within and above porous fuel beds in quiescent flame spread scenarios	16
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?	16
Sand and fire: applying the sandpile model of self-organised criticality to wildfire mitigation	16
BARA: cellular automata simulation of multidimensional smouldering in peat with horizontally varying moisture contents	15
Comparing gas composition from fast pyrolysis of live foliage measured in bench-scale and fire-scale experiments	15
Fire severity and plant productivity recovery in a mixed grass prairie wildfire driven by extreme winds	15
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2	15
Evaluating the relationships between wildfires and drought using machine learning	15
Evaluating wildfire vulnerability of Mediterranean dwellings using fuzzy logic applied to expert judgement	15
Wildfire aerial thermal image segmentation using unsupervised methods: a multilayer level set approach	15
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 1)	14
Impact of fire suppressant on seed germination and seedling emergence of native and introduced flora from a Western Australian eucalypt woodland	14
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: special issue introduction (Part 4)	14
Table of Contents	14
The role of helicity and fire–atmosphere turbulent energy transport in potential wildfire behaviour	14
Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021	14
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present	14
Characterising spatial clusters of forest fire activity in the Western Himalayan region of India: implications for conservation and management	14
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes†	14
Review of thermal behaviour of firebrands and their role in fuel bed and structure ignition	13
Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California	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
Field-based generic empirical flame length–fireline intensity relationships for wildland surface fires	13
Australian Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype†	12
The 1986 Annaburroo experimental grassland fires: data	12
Table of Contents	12
Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area	12
Table of Contents	12
Modelling chamise fuel moisture content across California: a machine learning approach	12
Short- and long-term effects of surface fires on heat stress protein content in Scots pine needles	12
An evaluation of empirical and statistically based smoke plume injection height parametrisations used within air quality models	11
Exploring the influence of the Keetch–Byram Drought Index and McArthur’s Drought Factor on wildfire incidence in Victoria, Australia	11
Predicting daily initial attack aircraft targets in British Columbia	11
Fire mosaics in south-west Australian forest landscapes	11
Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems	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
Future fire events are likely to be worse than climate projections indicate – these are some of the reasons why	10
Decadal scale fire dynamics in savannas and forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India	10
The response of reptiles and mammals to fire-driven vegetation succession in semi-arid Triodia-mallee woodlands	10
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	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
Between a rock and a hot place: do surface shelters facilitate survivable conditions for small vertebrates during prescribed fire?	10
Archetypes and change in wildfire risk perceptions, behaviours and intentions among adults in Tasmania, Australia	10
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors	10
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas. Part 2 – fire hazard assessment of the different land management scenarios	10
Fire weather severity in southern Africa is increasing faster and more extensively in the late than in the early dry season	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
A phenology-driven fire danger index for northern grasslands	9
Sub-hourly forecasting of fire potential using machine learning on time series of surface weather variables	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
Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires	9
Quantifying the flammability of living plants at the branch scale: which metrics to use?	9
Early forest flame and smoke detection based on improved feature extraction module with enhanced image processing inspired by YOLOV7	9
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†	9
Table of Contents	8
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework	8
Pre-fire assessment of post-fire debris-flow hazards in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed	8
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update	8
Fireline production rate of handcrews in wildfires of the Spanish Mediterranean region	8
Social science to advance wildfire adaptation in the southwestern United States: a review and future research directions	8
Table of Contents	8
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!	8
Table of Contents	8
Atmospheric turbulence and wildland fires: a review	8
Impact of fire return interval on pyrogenic carbon stocks in a tropical savanna, North Queensland, Australia	8
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers	8
A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants	8
Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm	8
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
Experimental and numerical fire behaviour analysis in Eucalyptus globulus trees	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
An evaluation of wildland fire simulators used operationally in Australia	7
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria	7
Reviewing Stephen J. Pyne’s To the Last Smoke series: putting the people in the pyrocene	7
Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem	7
Professional wildfire mitigation competency: a potential policy gap	7
Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change	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
Five Suns. A Fire History of Mexico	7
Roles and experiences of non-governmental organisations in wildfire response and recovery	7
Assessing changes in high-intensity fire events in south-eastern Australia using Fourier Transform Infra-red (FITR) spectroscopy	7
A comparison of smoke modelling tools used to mitigate air quality impacts from prescribed burning	7
Consistent, high-accuracy mapping of daily and sub-daily wildfire growth with satellite observations	7
Intermittent fireline behaviour over porous vegetative media in different crossflow conditions	7
Uncertainty quantification of forecast error in coupled fire–atmosphere wildfire spread simulations: sensitivity to the spatial resolution	7