Fire

《Fire》是 2018 年创刊的月刊，由瑞士 MDPI 出版，以开放获取方式在线发行。

刊物覆盖火灾科学、政策与技术，关注火与社区、环境的相互作用，选题从景观火延伸到建筑内部的火灾。

2025 年期刊影响因子为 3.2，五年影响因子为 3.3，在林学 92 种期刊中排第 20 位。

Scope

• Landscape fire science is the founding subject, covering ignition, spread, severity and the legacies of fire in forests, grasslands, shrublands and peatlands.景观火科学是创刊以来的核心题目，涵盖点火、蔓延、烈度以及火在森林、草地、灌丛与泥炭地留下的长期影响。
• Fire ecology papers examine how fire regimes shape vegetation structure, carbon storage, wildlife habitat and post-fire succession.火生态学论文考察火情格局 如何塑造植被结构、碳储量、野生动物生境以及火后演替。
• Fire behaviour and modelling work connects laboratory experiments, field measurements and simulators used in operational planning.火行为与建模研究把实验室实验、野外观测与用于行动规划的火行为模拟器连接起来。
• Smoke transport and air quality studies trace emissions from flames and smouldering fuels through the atmosphere to exposed communities.烟羽输送与空气质量研究追踪火焰与阴燃燃料的排放如何穿过大气到达暴露社区。
• The wildland-urban interface is treated as a distinct problem, with papers on exposure, defensible space, evacuation and building loss.城乡交界带被当作独立问题处理，论文讨论暴露、可防御空间、疏散与建筑损失。
• Fire science inside buildings covers structural response, heat and smoke movement, ignition, flame spread and technical solutions for fire safety.建筑内部火灾科学涉及结构响应、热与烟的迁移、点火、火焰蔓延以及消防安全的技术方案。
• Battery fires and other emerging energy-storage hazards are within scope, reflecting the growth of electric vehicles and grid storage.电池火灾与其他新型储能风险属于收稿范围，反映电动汽车与电网储能的发展。
• Fire-retardant materials, fuels and combustion chemistry are published where they bear on fire behaviour or fire protection.阻燃材料、燃料与燃烧化学在涉及火行为或防火保护时被发表。
• Fire management papers address suppression tactics, prescribed burning, fuel treatment and the organisation of response agencies.火管理论文讨论扑救战术、计划烧除、可燃物处理以及响应机构的组织方式。
• Policy analysis follows legislation, liability, insurance and the allocation of firefighting resources across jurisdictions.政策分析关注立法、责任、保险以及消防资源在不同辖区之间的分配。
• Historical and social-science contributions examine how communities perceive fire, adapt to risk and recover after loss.历史与社会科学稿件考察社区如何理解火、适应风险并在损失之后恢复。
• Case studies of major fire events are welcomed when they draw general lessons for preparedness or response.重大火灾事件的案例研究在能够提炼备灾或响应的一般经验时受到欢迎。
• Methodological notes and data descriptions are accepted so that fire measurements and models can be compared across regions.方法说明与数据描述类稿件被接受，以便火观测与模型能够跨区域比较。
• Remote sensing and geographic information science support mapping of burned area, fuel load, drought stress and post-fire vegetation recovery.遥感与地理信息科学支撑过火面积、可燃物载量、干旱胁迫以及火后植被恢复的制图。
• Climate change research links warming, drought and altered fire seasons to shifts in fire regimes and smoke exposure.气候变化研究把增温、干旱与火季变化同火情格局 的转变及烟暴露联系起来。
• Emission inventories and fuel characterisation are published for the gases and aerosols that dominate fire smoke.排放清单与燃料特征研究针对构成火烟主体的气体与气溶胶。
• Fire risk assessment, vulnerability analysis and resilience planning are covered for settlements, infrastructure and protected areas.火灾风险评估、脆弱性分析与韧性规划覆盖聚落、基础设施与保护地。
• Interdisciplinary submissions that combine physical, ecological and social evidence are encouraged, provided the methods are reported in full.鼓励把物理、生态与社会证据结合起来的跨学科投稿，前提是完整报告所用方法。

History

• MDPI launched Fire in 2018 in Basel as an open-access title, with Remote Sensing as its sister journal.MDPI 于 2018 年在巴塞尔创办 Fire，采用开放获取模式，并以 Remote Sensing 作为姊妹刊。
• The first volumes gathered work on landscape fire science, fire management and the interface between fire and society.最初几卷汇集了景观火科学、火管理以及火与社会交界面的研究。
• Scopus coverage began in the journal's early years, and the title was accepted into the Science Citation Index Expanded in March 2021.Scopus 收录在创刊初期即已开始，刊物于 2021 年 3 月进入科学引文索引扩展版。
• Publication is monthly and online only, with articles released continuously and assembled into monthly issues.刊物按月在线出版，文章持续上线并汇入每月一期的正刊。
• Peer review is single blind, and the published median time to first decision was about 16.5 days in 2023.同行评审采用单盲方式，2023 年公布的首轮决定中位时间约为 16.5 天。
• Acceptance to publication took a median of 2.7 days in the same period, reflecting the production model of the publisher.同一时期从接受到出版的中位时间为 2.7 天，体现出版方的生产流程。
• The impact factor moved from 2.726 in 2022 to 3.0 in 2023, 2.7 in 2024 and 3.2 in 2025.影响因子从 2022 年的 2.726 变为 2023 年的 3.0、2024 年的 2.7 与 2025 年的 3.2。
• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports placed the journal in Q1 for Forestry at rank 20 of 92, and in Q2 for Ecology at rank 67 of 205.2025 年期刊引证报告把刊物列为林学 Q1，92 种中排第 20 位，生态学 Q2，205 种中排第 67 位。
• The same report counted 5381 citations, 472 articles and 506 citable items for the journal.同一份报告统计刊物被引 5381 次，载文 472 篇，可引用条目 506 项。
• Gold open access accounts for 99.86 percent of recent content, and the article processing charge is 2896 United States dollars.近期内容中金色开放获取占 99.86%，文章处理费为 2896 美元。
• At the time of its acceptance into the citation index, the board had 82 members from 13 countries and regions.在进入引文索引时，编委会由来自 13 个国家和地区的 82 名成员组成。
• Topical collections such as Diversity Leaders in Fire Science group papers by theme rather than by issue.Diversity Leaders in Fire Science 等专题合集按主题而不是按刊期组织论文。
• Special issues have covered wildfire remote sensing, fire in human landscapes, numerical simulation and risk mitigation in buildings.特刊覆盖野火遥感、人类景观中的火、数值模拟以及建筑火灾风险缓解。
• The journal belongs to the publisher's ecosystem and resource management cluster, which shares review and production services.刊物属于出版方的生态系统与资源管理刊群，共享评审与生产服务。

Editors

• Grant Williamson of the University of Tasmania in Hobart is editor-in-chief, with interests in air quality, smoke management and fire ecology.霍巴特塔斯马尼亚大学的 Grant Williamson 担任主编，研究空气质量、烟管理与火生态。
• Williamson's own work uses geographic information systems and remote sensing to model smoke transport and landscape fire.Williamson 本人的工作利用地理信息系统与遥感模拟烟羽输送与景观火。
• Ali Cemal Benim, a fluid-mechanics specialist at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, is a section editor-in-chief for combustion and simulation.杜塞尔多夫应用科学大学的流体力学专家 Ali Cemal Benim 是燃烧与模拟方向的分区主编。
• Tiago Miguel Ferreira of the University of Lisbon is a section editor-in-chief for risk, vulnerability and resilience of the built environment.里斯本大学的 Tiago Miguel Ferreira 是建成环境风险、脆弱性与韧性方向的分区主编。
• Natasha Ribeiro, a fire ecologist working on southern African woodlands and community fire management, is also a section editor-in-chief.研究南部非洲林地与社区火管理的火生态学家 Natasha Ribeiro 同为分区主编。
• John Abatzoglou of the University of California, Merced, serves on the board and works on climate variability and wildfire.加州大学默塞德分校的 John Abatzoglou 任编委，研究气候变率与野火。
• Martin E. Alexander, a long-standing student of fire behaviour, brings operational and experimental experience to the board.长期研究火行为的 Martin E. Alexander 为编委会带来行动实践与实验经验。
• Jennifer K. Balch of the University of Colorado Boulder is a board member known for work on fire regimes and human ignitions.科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的 Jennifer K. Balch 是编委，以火情格局 与人为点火研究著称。
• David Bowman, a pyrogeographer at the University of Tasmania, is among the board members who link fire science with ecology and history.塔斯马尼亚大学的火地理学者 David Bowman 是编委之一，把火科学与生态学、历史学联系起来。
• Luigi Boschetti of the University of Idaho and Sofia Bajocco of the Italian research council contribute remote-sensing expertise to the board.爱达荷大学的 Luigi Boschetti 与意大利研究委员会的 Sofia Bajocco 为编委会提供遥感专长。
• The editorial office in Basel handles submissions through the publisher's online system and assigns handling editors by subject.巴塞尔编辑部通过出版方的在线系统处理投稿，并按学科分配责任编辑。
• Guest editors of special issues are drawn from the board and from research groups working on the issue theme.特刊客座编辑从编委会以及研究该主题的研究组中选任。
• Reviewers are asked to judge whether a manuscript connects its measurements to fire behaviour or management, not merely to report a case.审稿人须判断稿件是否把观测与火行为或火管理联系起来，而不只是报告一个案例。