OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fire Ecology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network	116
Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration	108
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	49
Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room	47
Prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: fire managers’ perspectives on priorities, constraints, and future prospects	35
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	31
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	31
The path to strategic fire management planning in the Aran, Pyrenees	31
Prescribed burning mitigates the severity of subsequent wildfires in Mediterranean shrublands	30
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	29
Five social and ethical considerations for using wildfire visualizations as a communication tool	29
Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval	29
Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study	27
Ecosystem type and species’ traits help explain bird responses to spatial patterns of fire	27
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	26
Plant-plant interactions influence post-fire recovery depending on fire history and nurse growth form	21
Direct and indirect effects of fire on germination of shortleaf pine seeds	20
Service-learning to improve training, knowledge transfer, and awareness in forest fire management	20
Cheatgrass alters flammability of native perennial grasses in laboratory combustion experiments	19
Fire history in northern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests across a distinct gradient in productivity	18
New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation	17
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA	17
Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California	16
Fire regimes and management options in mixed grassland-fynbos vegetation, South Africa	15
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	15

Stand diversity increases pine resistance and resilience to compound disturbance	15
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	14
Impacts of a short-interval severe fire on forest structure and regeneration in a temperate Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus forest	13
Extreme wildfire supersedes long-term fuel treatment influences on fuel and vegetation in chaparral ecosystems of northern California, USA	13
Effectiveness of pre-fire forest management on post-fire forest conditions in southeastern Arizona	13
Modeling fuel break effectiveness in southern Spain wildfires	12
Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers	11
Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States	11
Review of Fire ecology and management: past, present, and future of US forested ecosystems by Cathryn H. Greenberg and Beverly Collins (editors) and 75 contributing authors	11
A framework for natural resource management with geospatial machine learning: a case study of the 2021 Almora forest fires	11
Moisture and vegetation cover limit ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches in the southwestern US	11
A tree-ring record of historical fire activity in a piedmont longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) woodland in North Carolina, USA	11
Principles of fire ecology	11
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	10
Correction: Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds	10
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	10
Correction: Frequent burning and limited stand‑replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy	10
Correction: Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	10
Fire frequency and severity mediate recruitment response of a threatened shrub following severe megafire	9
Vegetation’s influence on fire behavior goes beyond just being fuel	9
Cellular automata-based simulators for the design of prescribed fire plans: the case study of Liguria, Italy	9
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire	9
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	9
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	9
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy	9
Modeling sub-boreal forest canopy bulk density in Minnesota, USA, using synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite sensor data	9
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes	8
Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds	8
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA	8
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	8
How do fire behavior and fuel consumption vary between dormant and early growing season prescribed burns in the southern Appalachian Mountains?	8
The REBURN model: simulating system-level forest succession and wildfire dynamics	8
Short-term drivers of post-fire forest regeneration in the Western Alps	8
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	8
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	8
Frequent burning and limited stand-replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy	8
Governing wildfire in a global change context: lessons from water management in the Netherlands	8
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	8
Taking the next step in wildfire education: integrating multiple knowledge forms into co-produced high school fire science curricula	7
Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern influence simulated prescribed fire effects	7
Predicting snag fall in an old-growth forest after fire	7
Fire severity and prolonged drought do not interact to reduce plant regeneration capacity but alter community composition in a Mediterranean shrubland	7
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research	7
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	7