OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Fire Sciences is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Flame retardancy of biodegradable polylactic acid with piperazine pyrophosphate and melamine cyanurate as flame retardant	22
Development of a pyrolysis model for oriented strand board. Part I: Kinetics and thermodynamics of the thermal decomposition	15
Review of large-scale fire tests on cross-laminated timber	15
Comparison of fire extinguishing performance of four halon substitutes and Halon 1301	12
Challenges and limitation of wearable sensors used in firefighters’ protective clothing	11
A review on fire suppression by fire sprinklers	9
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link: Weathering resistance of water-based intumescent coatings for steel applications	9
Development of a pyrolysis model for oriented strand board: Part II—Thermal transport parameterization and bench-scale validation	9
Flammability and thermal stability of thermoplastic-based composites filled with natural carbon	8
The evolving temperature field in a 1-m methanol pool fire	7
Household cooking oil use and its bearing on fire safety	6
Numerical assessment for aircraft cargo compartment fire suppression system safety	6
Facile preparation of uniform polydopamine particles and its application as an environmentally friendly flame retardant for biodegradable polylactic acid	6
Brominated flame-retardant composition in firefighter bunker gear and its thermal performance analysis	6
Experimental determination of the evolution of the incident heat flux received by a combustible during a cone calorimeter test: Influence of the flame irradiance	6
Polylactic acid flame-retarded by nano-compound of form II ammonium polyphosphate with montmorillonite	5
The well-meaning but misguided rollback of fire safety in the United States	5
Experimental study on the flame extension and risk analysis of a diffusion impinging flame in confined compartment	5
Automatic early detection of wildfire smoke with visible-light cameras and EfficientDet	5
Experimental research on temperature distribution and charring rate of typical components of wood structure building	5
The character of residential cooktop fires	5
Simulation of the burning and dripping cables in fire using the particle finite element method	5
Experiments in aerial firefighting with and without additives and its application to suppress wildfires near electrical transmission lines	4
Flammability testing of wool/cellulosic and wool/synthetic fiber blends: Vertical flame spread and heat release results	4
Fire-extinguishing performance and gas-phase pollution characteristics of different foam agents in extinguishing transformer oil pool fire	4

Anisotropy of expandable graphite to explain its behavior as a flame-retardant