OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Fire Ecology 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Fitness consequences of catastrophic wildfire are mitigated by behavioral responses of an iconic bird	226
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	177
Megafire attributes and pre-fire structural legacies shape short-term avian responses in an Atlantic-Mediterranean ecotone	122
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	86
Model-based assessment of prescribed burning frequency to mitigate wildfire risks in tallgrass prairie	81
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	67
Australia and the United States have many similarities and differences in prescribed fire management: learning from each other	59
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	57
Restoring fire sovereignty on California Indian allotment lands	57
Effects of repeat prescribed burning in dry coniferous forests in national parks of California	54
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	48
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	45
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	44
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	44
Effectiveness of firebreaks: a review	43
Overstory retention in a managed mixed-conifer stand limits cheatgrass invasion after wildfire	37
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	36
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	30
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	30
“The macchia is a garden”: wildfires, pastoralism, and landscape ideologies in the Aurunci Mountains, Italy	29
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	28
Comparing fire behavior and severity between a wildfire and a controlled burn in an Atlantic shrubland	28
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	28
Mojave Desert microbial communities show high resistance and resilience over three years despite widespread plant mortality following the Dome Fire	28
The serotinous cones of Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmaea exhibit a higher phosphorus content compared to their open counterparts	27

The effectiveness of prescribed burning for protecting houses during wildfires in Australia	27
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	27
Factors influencing early post-wildfire vegetation and implications for invasive plant management in the interior of British Columbia, Canada	27
Resource objective wildfires shifted forest structure and fuels toward pre-fire-exclusion conditions in a remote Arizona wilderness	27