OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fire Ecology is 9. 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
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	155
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	79
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	62
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	58
Australia and the United States have many similarities and differences in prescribed fire management: learning from each other	45
Modeling sub-boreal forest canopy bulk density in Minnesota, USA, using synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite sensor data	44
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	43
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA	43
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	41
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	40
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	40
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	34
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	33
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	31
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	30
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	30
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub	25
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	24
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	23
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	21
Overstory and fuel traits drive moisture dynamics of mesophytic and pyrophytic leaf litter and 10-h woody debris fuels in a mixed longleaf pine-hardwood woodland	20
The serotinous cones of Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmaea exhibit a higher phosphorus content compared to their open counterparts	20
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage	18
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States	18
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020	18

Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	17
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin	17
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	16
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA	16
Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review	16
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change	16
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	16
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region	15
Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds	15
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA	14
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival	14
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests	14
Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer	14
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review	14
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative	13
Wildfire risk perception survey: insights from local communities in Tuscany, Italy	13
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	13
Simulating long-term wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum	13
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	12
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	12
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	12
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	11
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	11
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	11
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	11
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	11
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	11
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	11
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	10
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas	10
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)	10
Indigenous use of fire in the paramo ecosystem of southern Ecuador: a case study using remote sensing methods and ancestral knowledge of the Kichwa Saraguro people	10
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions	10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	10
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	10
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China	10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis	9
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices	9
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire	9
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	9
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	9
Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States	9
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	9
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama	9
Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands	9