OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Fire-Switzerland is 27. 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
Experimental Study on Temperature Distribution Characteristics Under Coordinated Ventilation in Underground Interconnected Tunnels	121
Hydrogen in the Natural Gas Network—Relevance for Existing Fire Precautions	77
Fire Effect and Performance of Bridge Pylon Columns under Construction	73
Geostatistical Modeling of Wildfire Occurrence Probability: The Case Study of Monte Catillo Natural Reserve in Italy	71
Reply to Giglio et al. Comment on “Otón et al. Analysis of Trends in the FireCCI Global Long Term Burned Area Product (1982–2018). Fire 2021, 4, 74”	65
Mixed-Severity Wildfire as a Driver of Vegetation Change in an Arizona Madrean Sky Island System, USA	56
Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia	51
Molecular Characterisation of Post-Fire Naturally Regenerated Populations of Maritime Pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) in the North of Portugal	50
Experiment Study on the Effectiveness of Various and Mixed Kinds of Low Expansion Foam of 120# Gasoline Pool Fire Suppression	45
The Role of Fuel Characteristics and Heat Release Formulations in Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Simulation	45
Numerical Simulation of Flow and Flame Dynamics of a Pool Fire Under Combined Effects of Wind and Slope	44
Deep Learning Approaches for Wildfire Severity Prediction: A Comparative Study of Image Segmentation Networks and Visual Transformers on the EO4WildFires Dataset	44
Improving Fire Suppression Efficiency in Electric Vehicles: A Study on Optimized Upward Spray Devices	38
Phenology Patterns and Postfire Vegetation Regeneration in the Chiquitania Region of Bolivia Using Sentinel-2	38
Reducing Rural Fire Risk through the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain Model for Residual Agroforestry Biomass Supported in a Web Platform: A Case Study in Portugal Central Region with the Pro	36
Fuel in Tasmanian Dry Eucalypt Forests: Prediction of Fuel Load and Fuel Hazard Rating from Fuel Age	34
Development of a Novel Quantitative Risk Assessment Tool for UK Road Tunnels	33
Fire Severity Causes Temporal Changes in Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Assemblages of Patagonian Araucaria–Nothofagus Forests	33
Factors Influencing Risk during Wildfires: Contrasting Divergent Regions in the US	33
A Numerical Study of the Fire Resistance of Square Steel Tube Columns Embedded in Walls	32
Drivers of Structural and Functional Resilience Following Extreme Fires in Boreal Forests of Northeast China	30
Study on Location of Fire Stations in Chemical Industry Parks from a Public Safety Perspective: Considering the Domino Effect and the Identification of Major Hazard Installations for Hazardous Chemica	29
Comprehensive Examination of the Determinants of Damage to Houses in Two Wildfires in Eastern Australia in 2013	28
FireCLIP: Enhancing Forest Fire Detection with Multimodal Prompt Tuning and Vision-Language Understanding	28
Integrating Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Extended Reality, and Simulation-Based Systems into Fire and Rescue Service Training: Current Practices and Future Directions	28

A Protocol for Collecting Burned Area Time Series Cross-Check Data	27
Investigations of the Fire Behavior of Functionally Graded Concrete Slabs with Mineral Hollow Spheres	27
A New, Green, Recyclable Fireproof Insulation Board for Use in Integrated Composite Structure Fire Protection Systems	27