OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fire Ecology is 8. 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
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	149
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	116
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	73
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	54
Modeling sub-boreal forest canopy bulk density in Minnesota, USA, using synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite sensor data	53
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA	44
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	42
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	41
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	41
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	39
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	39
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	32
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	32
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	31
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	30
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub	30
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	30
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	24
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	24
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
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States	19
The serotinous cones of Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmaea exhibit a higher phosphorus content compared to their open counterparts	19
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin	18
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage	18
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020	17

Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	16
Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review	16
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	16
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	16
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change	16
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA	15
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA	15
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review	14
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region	14
Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds	14
Simulating long-term wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum	13
Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer	13
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival	13
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests	13
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	12
Wildfire risk perception survey: insights from local communities in Tuscany, Italy	12
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	12
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative	12
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
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	11
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	11
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	11
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	11
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	11
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
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
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	10
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices	9
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	9
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China	9
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis	9
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama	9
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	9
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	9
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	9
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions	9
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas	9
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)	9
Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region	8
Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management	8
Long-term recovery of Mexican spotted owl nesting habitat after fire in the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico	8
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	8
Causal impact of fire on a globally rare wetland plant: a 40-year Bayesian time series analysis	8
Wind climate analysis for prescribed fire planning: case study of Tallahassee, Florida	8
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire	8
Disentangling the drivers of post-fire plant community dynamics in subalpine forests of the Tibetan Plateau	8