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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of fuel structure on gorse fire behaviour	61
GAMBUT field measurement of emissions from a tropical peatland fire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression	43
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public	42
Systematising experts’ understanding of traditional burning in Portugal: a mental model approach	41
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia	31
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements	30
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States	27
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	26
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia	25
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers	25
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning	24
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires	24
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland	23
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada	23
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios	21
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume	21
Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger	21
LPG stored at the wildland–urban interface: recent events and the effects of jet fires and BLEVE	20
An approach to integrated data management for three-dimensional, time-dependent fire behaviour model evaluation	20
On the non-monotonic behaviour of fire spread	17
The US Forest Service Life First safety initiative: exploring unnecessary exposure to risk	17
Dynamic simulation of fire propagation in forests and rangelands using a GIS-based cellular automata model	17
Effects of the wildfires in August 2021 on the air quality of Athens through a numerical simulation	17
A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada	17
The Duff Moisture Code and the limits of sustainable combustion: examining the evidence for a widely used threshold	17

Shifting conflict into collaboration: peatland fires mitigation in the biosphere conservation transition zone in Sumatra, Indonesia	16
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2	16
Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System†	16
Sand and fire: applying the sandpile model of self-organised criticality to wildfire mitigation	15
Fire severity and plant productivity recovery in a mixed grass prairie wildfire driven by extreme winds	15
Effects of fuel bed structure on heat transfer mechanisms within and above porous fuel beds in quiescent flame spread scenarios	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	14
Impact of fire suppressant on seed germination and seedling emergence of native and introduced flora from a Western Australian eucalypt woodland	14
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?	14
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present	14
BARA: cellular automata simulation of multidimensional smouldering in peat with horizontally varying moisture contents	14
Evaluating the relationships between wildfires and drought using machine learning	14
Comparing gas composition from fast pyrolysis of live foliage measured in bench-scale and fire-scale experiments	14
Firebrand burning under wind: an experimental study	14
Table of Contents	14
The role of helicity and fire–atmosphere turbulent energy transport in potential wildfire behaviour	13
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes†	13
Calculating fire danger of cured grasslands in temperate climates – the elements of the Grassland Fire Index (GLFI)	13
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: special issue introduction (Part 4)	13
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 1)	13
Characterising spatial clusters of forest fire activity in the Western Himalayan region of India: implications for conservation and management	13
Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California	12
Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021	12
Review of thermal behaviour of firebrands and their role in fuel bed and structure ignition	12
Field-based generic empirical flame length–fireline intensity relationships for wildland surface fires	12
Interaction between two parallel fire fronts under different wind conditions	12
Short- and long-term effects of surface fires on heat stress protein content in Scots pine needles	11
Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems	11
Table of Contents	11
The 1986 Annaburroo experimental grassland fires: data	11
Table of Contents	11
Predicting daily initial attack aircraft targets in British Columbia	11
Patterns of wildfire risk in the United States from systematic operational risk assessments: how risk is characterised by land managers	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	10
Exploring the influence of the Keetch–Byram Drought Index and McArthur’s Drought Factor on wildfire incidence in Victoria, Australia	10
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	10
An evaluation of empirical and statistically based smoke plume injection height parametrisations used within air quality models	10
Australian Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype†	10
Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area	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
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas. Part 2 – fire hazard assessment of the different land management scenarios	9
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors	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
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update	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
Future fire events are likely to be worse than climate projections indicate – these are some of the reasons why	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
Review of approaches and challenges for the validation of satellite-based active fire products in savannah ecosystems	9
Sub-hourly forecasting of fire potential using machine learning on time series of surface weather variables	9
Archetypes and change in wildfire risk perceptions, behaviours and intentions among adults in Tasmania, Australia	9
Tree spatial pattern and mortality prediction in burned patches of Dahurian larch (	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
Table of Contents	8
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†	8
A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants	8
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers	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
Likelihood of implementing fuel reduction treatments on nonindustrial private forest lands	8
Table of Contents	7
Atmospheric turbulence and wildland fires: a review	7
Roles and experiences of non-governmental organisations in wildfire response and recovery	7
A comment on the use of visually assessed fuel hazard ratings and scores for Australian fire management and research	7
Conifer encroachment increases foliar moisture content in a northwestern California oak woodland	7
Five Suns. A Fire History of Mexico	7
Impact of fire return interval on pyrogenic carbon stocks in a tropical savanna, North Queensland, Australia	7
Social science to advance wildfire adaptation in the southwestern United States: a review and future research directions	7
Experimental study on artificial lightning ignition phenomenon and model of the fuel bed	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
Experimental and numerical fire behaviour analysis in Eucalyptus globulus trees	7
Table of Contents	7
Fireline production rate of handcrews in wildfires of the Spanish Mediterranean region	7
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework	7
A note on fire weather indices	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
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
Uncertainty quantification of forecast error in coupled fire–atmosphere wildfire spread simulations: sensitivity to the spatial resolution	6
An evaluation of wildland fire simulators used operationally in Australia	6
Professional wildfire mitigation competency: a potential policy gap	6
Exploring the impact of airtanker drops on in-stand temperature and relative humidity	6
Spatial accessibility of anthropogenic fire ignition sources of grassland fire in northeast China	6
Consistent, high-accuracy mapping of daily and sub-daily wildfire growth with satellite observations	6
Residual forest structure influences behaviour of Pacific marten (	6
Intermittent fireline behaviour over porous vegetative media in different crossflow conditions	6
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 2)	6
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Atmospheric turbulent structures and fire sweeps during shrub fires and implications for flaming zone behaviour	6
Table of Contents	6
Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem	6
Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change	6
Burning from the ground up: the structure and impact of Prescribed Burn Associations in the United States	6
Strategies to reduce wildfire smoke in frequently impacted communities in south-western Oregon	6
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada	6