OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Fire Safety Journal 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
Numerical modelling of composite steel and concrete double-skin and double-tube square cross-section columns subjected to fire	69
The role of smoldering in the ignition of Pinus palustris needles	67
Exploring single-line walking in immersive virtual reality	56
High-performance real-time fire detection and forecasting framework for industrial cables	48
Strength of thin-walled steel beams under non-uniform temperature: Analytical and machine learning models	41
A two-zone subgrid flame model for predicting radiant emission from fires	39
Assessment of a PAH-based soot production model in laminar coflow methane diffusion flames doped by gasoline surrogate fuels	38
Deep-learning-based data loss reconstruction for spatiotemporal temperature in piloti structures: Enhancing applicability with limited datasets	37
On the use of natural and forced convection correlations in predictive CFD simulations of liquid pool fires	36
Inverse modelling of pyrolization kinetics with ensemble learning methods	36
Containment and suppression of compartment fires using specialized liquid compositions	35
Shear Behavior of Lapped Connections Bolted by thread-fixed one-side bolts at elevated temperatures	35
A study of the characteristics of smoke stratification in lateral point smoke exhaust tunnel	34
A pre-evacuation study using data from evacuation drills and false alarm evacuations in a university library	34
Flame heights and charring on a particle board – An experimental study	33
Analysis of Chinese fire statistics during the period 1997–2017	33
Laypeople in fire protection: Their motivation, their emotions, their value	31
Editorial Board	31
Fire propagation in a mechanically ventilated multi-compartment facility: OECD/NEA project PRISME 3	31
Experimental investigation of downward discrete flame spread of the thermoplastic material in exterior insulation walls: melt-flowing and -dripping	30
Influence of different transverse positions of two fires on flame characteristics in a tunnel	29
Fire hazards of PMMA-based composites combined with expandable graphite and multi-walled carbon nanotubes: A comprehensive study	29
IAFSS workshop on education 2023 – Perspectives on the need for competence in fire safety engineering	29
First responders' perceived and actual competence in tunnel fire safety	28
The response of diagrid structures to fire	28

Development of a fire prediction model at the urban planning stage: Ordinary least squares regression analysis of the area of urban land use and fire damage data in South Korea	27
Laboratory quantification of firebrand generation from WUI fuels for model development	27