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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of fuel spatial distribution on wildland fire behaviour	41
Understanding fire regimes in Europe	27
An empirical-based model for predicting the forward spread rate of wildfires in eucalypt forests	26
Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California	21
Effects of altered fire intervals on critical timber production and conservation values	20
Evidence for lack of a fuel effect on forest and shrubland fire rates of spread under elevated fire danger conditions: implications for modelling and management	20
Forest fire smoke detection under complex backgrounds using TRPCA and TSVB	18
Pre-season fire management planning: the use of Potential Operational Delineations to prepare for wildland fire events	18
Assessing the predictive efficacy of six machine learning algorithms for the susceptibility of Indian forests to fire	18
Bureaucratic inertia in dealing with annual forest fires in Indonesia	18
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	17
Soil moisture as an indicator of growing-season herbaceous fuel moisture and curing rate in grasslands	15
Laboratory study on the suppression of smouldering peat wildfires: effects of flow rate and wetting agent	15
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	15
Towards resilient health systems for increasing climate extremes: insights from the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season	14
High-severity wildfire potential – associating meteorology, climate, resource demand and wildfire activity with preparedness levels	13
How to build a firebreak to stop smouldering peat fire: insights from a laboratory-scale study	13
An analysis of fatalities from forest fires in China, 1951–2018	13
Projection of future wildfire emissions in western USA under climate change: contributions from changes in wildfire, fuel loading and fuel moisture	13
Characterisation of initial fire weather conditions for large spring wildfires in Alberta, Canada	13
Indigenous cultural burning had less impact than wildfire on the threatened Backwater grevillea (	12
Integrating remotely sensed fuel variables into wildfire danger assessment for China	12
Guidelines for effective evaluation and comparison of wildland fire occurrence prediction models	12
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Integrating remotely sensed fuel variables into wildfire danger assessment for China	12
Quantifying merging fire behaviour phenomena using unmanned aerial vehicle technology	12

Forest fire and its key drivers in the tropical forests of northern Vietnam	11
Dynamic simulation of fire propagation in forests and rangelands using a GIS-based cellular automata model	11
On the non-monotonic behaviour of fire spread	11
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?	10
Effect of fuel spatial resolution on predictive wildfire models	10
Application of compositional data analysis to determine the effects of heating mode, moisture status and plant species on pyrolysates	10
Using soil moisture information to better understand and predict wildfire danger: a review of recent developments and outstanding questions	10
Effect of moisture content and fuel type on emissions from vegetation using a steady state combustion apparatus	10
Patterns of wildfire risk in the United States from systematic operational risk assessments: how risk is characterised by land managers	9
Evaluating the relationships between wildfires and drought using machine learning	9
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada	9
Characterisation of thunderstorms that caused lightning-ignited wildfires	9
Wildfire hazard mapping in the eastern Mediterranean landscape	9
Modelling chamise fuel moisture content across California: a machine learning approach	9
A critical review of fuel accumulation models used in Australian fire management	9
Extent and effect of the 2019-20 Australian bushfires on upland peat swamps in the Blue Mountains, NSW	9
Regional estimation of dead fuel moisture content in southwest China based on a practical process-based model	8
Quantifying production of hot firebrands using a fire-resistant fabric	8
Deep peat fire persistently smouldering for weeks: a laboratory demonstration	8
Variability in pyrogenic carbon properties generated by different burning temperatures and peatland plant litters: implication for identifying fire intensity and fuel types	8
Organisational influence on the co-production of fire science: overcoming challenges and realising opportunities	8
Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 2	8
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	8
What determines variation in remotely sensed fire severity? Consideration of remote sensing limitations and confounding factors	8
Spontaneous ignition of soils: a multi-step reaction scheme to simulate self-heating ignition of smouldering peat fires	8
Smoke emissions from the extreme wildfire events in central Portugal in October 2017	8
Predicting black spruce fuel characteristics with Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS)	8
Coupled fire-atmosphere simulation of the 2018 Camp Fire using WRF-Fire	7
Factors influencing the development of violent pyroconvection. Part I: fire size and stability	7
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present	7
Disentangling the factors of spatio-temporal patterns of wildfire activity in south-eastern France	7
Collective action for managing wildfire risk across boundaries in forest and range landscapes: lessons from case studies in the western United States	7
An analysis of factors influencing structure loss resulting from the 2018 Camp Fire	7
Potential conditions for fire occurrence in vegetation in the Peruvian Andes	7
Spatial databases and techniques to assist with prescribed fire management in the south-east Queensland bioregion	7
Wildfire does not affect the dung beetle diversity of high-altitude Mediterranean habitats	7
PeatFire: an agent-based model to simulate fire ignition and spreading in a tropical peatland ecosystem	7
Modelling the daily probability of lightning-caused ignition in the Iberian Peninsula	7
An evaluation of empirical and statistically based smoke plume injection height parametrisations used within air quality models	7
Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis	7
Bark charcoal reflectance may have the potential to estimate the heat delivered to tree boles by wildland fires	7
A simple model indicates that there are sufficient water supply points for fighting forest fires in the Czech Republic	6
Comparison of vapour-exchange methods for predicting hourly twig fuel moisture contents of larch and birch stands in the Daxinganling Region, China	6
Parametric evaluation of heat transfer mechanisms in a WUI fire scenario	6
QES-Fire: a dynamically coupled fast-response wildfire model	6
Mapping smouldering fire potential in boreal peatlands and assessing interactions with the wildland–human interface in Alberta, Canada	6
Event-based quickflow simulation with OpenLISEM in a burned Mediterranean forest catchment	6
Effects of different sampling strategies for unburned label selection in machine learning modelling of wildfire occurrence probability	6
Long-term fire effects on vegetation and topsoil properties in beech forests of Manjaca Mountain (western Bosnia and Herzegovina)	6
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria	6

Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	6
Signs of resilience in resprouting	6
The role of decomposer communities in managing surface fuels: a neglected ecosystem service	6
Fire mosaics in south-west Australian forest landscapes	6
Physics-based modelling of junction fires: parametric study	6
Future expansion, seasonal lengthening and intensification of fire activity under climate change in southeastern France	6
A multivariate approach to assess the structural determinants of large wildfires: evidence from a Mediterranean country	6
Wildland fire prevention: the impact of the Modifying Industrial Operations Protocol on the growth of industrial forestry-caused wildland fires in Ontario, Canada	6
The importance of small fires for wildfire hazard in urbanised landscapes of the northeastern US	6
Estimating dead fine fuel moisture content of forest surface, based on wireless sensor network and back-propagation neural network	6
Medium-term effects of straw helimulching on post-fire vegetation recovery in shrublands in north-west Spain	5
Estimation of post-fire vegetation recovery in boreal forests using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) data	5
Wildland firefighters’ thermal exposure in relation to suppression tasks	5
Recent change of burned area associated with summer heat extremes over Iberia	5
A note on fire weather indices	5
A multi-scale assessment of fire scar mapping in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia	5
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors	5
Relationships between building features and wildfire damage in California, USA and Pedrógão Grande, Portugal	5
Crown fuel consumption in Canadian boreal forest fires	5
More smoke today for less smoke tomorrow? We need to better understand the public health benefits and costs of prescribed fire	5
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2	5
Moisture content variation of ground vegetation fuels in boreal mesic and sub-xeric mineral soil forests in Finland	5
Atmospheric turbulent structures and fire sweeps during shrub fires and implications for flaming zone behaviour	5
Rivers up in smoke: impacts of Australia’s 2019–2020 megafires on riparian systems	5
Quantifying the effect of mastication on flaming and smouldering durations in eucalypt forests and woodlands under laboratory conditions	5
Traditional use of field burning in Ireland: history, culture and contemporary practice in the uplands	5
High-resolution fire danger forecast for Poland based on the Weather Research and Forecasting Model	5
Extension of the Balbi fire spread model to include the field scale conditions of shrubland fires	5