Fire Technology

Fire Technology is a research journal on fire safety science and engineering, published by Springer in conjunction with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), founded in 1965 and carrying a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《火灾技术》是一份面向消防安全科学与工程的研究期刊，由 Springer 出版，并与美国国家消防协会（National Fire Protection Association）及消防工程师学会（Society of Fire Protection Engineers）合作办刊，1965 年创刊，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The aims statement asks for original contributions, whether theoretical or empirical, that help solve problems in fire safety science and engineering rather than merely describe them.征稿说明要求来稿具原创性，理论与实证皆可，须有助于解决消防安全科学与工程中的问题，而不止于描述现象。

• Applied research is the working core, and the editors want it to address the full range of actual and potential fire hazards facing people and the environment.应用研究是办刊主体，编辑部要求稿件面对人与环境所承受的现实火灾危险与潜在火灾危险。

• The remit stretches across industrial, operational, cultural and environmental settings, so a chemical plant, a data hall, a heritage building and a forest margin all belong to one brief.选题范围横跨工业、运营、文化与环境四类场景，化工厂、数据中心、文物建筑与林缘地带都归同一份章程。

• Modelling carries much of the journal's weight, from zone models and field models to computational fluid dynamics and, increasingly, machine-learning formulations calibrated against test data.建模在刊内份量很重，区域模型与场模型是常规工具，计算流体力学居中也常见，近年还多了用试验数据标定的机器学习模型。

• Experimental work spans bench-scale apparatus such as the cone calorimeter, furnace testing, and full-scale compartment, facade and tunnel fires instrumented for heat release and spread.实验研究从锥形量热仪一类小尺度装置，延伸到炉内试验，以及按热释放与火蔓延布置测点的全尺寸房间、幕墙与隧道火灾。

• Detection is treated as an engineering subject in its own right, covering sensing elements, signal algorithms and the reliability of alarm systems in buildings and in process plant.探测被当作独立的工程课题，涵盖敏感元件、信号算法，以及建筑与工艺装置中报警系统的可靠性。

• Suppression research runs through sprinklers, water mist, foams, dry powders and gaseous agents to the hydraulic design and commissioning of fixed firefighting systems.灭火研究贯通喷淋、水雾、泡沫、干粉与气体灭火剂，一直做到固定灭火系统的水力设计与调试投运。

• Materials flammability, ignition behaviour, smoke yield and toxicity, and the fire performance of polymers, composites and engineered timber are handled as a subject area of their own.材料可燃性、着火行为、产烟与毒性，以及聚合物、复合材料与工程木材的火灾性能，构成一个独立方向。

• Structural fire engineering appears through fire resistance, thermo-mechanical response, connection behaviour and the performance-based design of buildings, bridges and industrial structures.结构抗火经由耐火性能、热力耦合响应、节点行为，以及建筑、桥梁与工业结构的性能化设计进入刊物。

• Human behaviour and evacuation form another strand, moving from occupant response and pre-movement times to the simulation of egress from complex and crowded buildings.人的行为与疏散构成另一条主线，从人员反应与预动作时间，一直做到复杂拥挤建筑内疏散过程的模拟。

• Wildland fire and the wildland-urban interface have become standing concerns, backed by dedicated topical collections on interface fires and on urban conflagration.野火与荒野城市交界带已成为常设议题，刊物另设交界带火灾与城市大火两个专题合集作为支撑。

• Risk analysis, reliability assessment, and the standards, codes and regulatory frameworks that carry research into practice complete the coverage that the journal claims.风险分析、可靠性评估，以及把研究带入实践的标准、规范与监管框架，补全了刊物自述的覆盖范围。

• Beyond full papers the editors accept review articles, brief technical communications, book reviews and letters to the editor, and issue collections of reviews under the Fire Science Reviews label.除全文论文外，编辑部还受理综述、简短技术通讯、书评与读者来信，并以 Fire Science Reviews 的名义成辑推出综述。

History

• The first issue of volume 1 appeared in 1965 under the National Fire Protection Association, the American body founded in 1896 that had become the clearing house for fire protection practice.第 1 卷第 1 期于 1965 年面世，出版方为美国国家消防协会（National Fire Protection Association），该协会 1896 年成立，长期充当消防实践的信息枢纽。

• Volume numbering has run unbroken since then at one volume a year, so the fiftieth volume fell in 2014 and the sixty-second is the volume of 2026.卷号此后一路连续，每年一卷，第 50 卷落在 2014 年，第 62 卷就是 2026 年的卷次。

• For its first decades the journal was a quarterly, four issues to a volume, a rhythm suited to a field whose full-scale test programmes took years to complete.最初几十年里它是季刊，每卷四期，这一节奏与一个全尺寸试验动辄数年才收尾的领域相称。

• The schedule later widened to six issues a year, and the current volume carries issues one through six as the regular pattern.此后刊期扩为每年六期，现行一卷即以第 1 期到第 6 期作为常规形制。

• Publication passed to Springer, and the whole archive has been digitised back to the opening 1965 issue, so a reader can still consult the first volume on the platform.出版事务其后移交 Springer，全部过刊已数字化回溯至 1965 年的创刊号，读者在该平台上仍能调出第 1 卷。

• The present imprint is Springer Science+Business Media, part of Springer Nature, and the journal is officially described as published in conjunction with NFPA and SFPE.现行版权页署 Springer Science+Business Media，隶属 Springer Nature，刊方公开表述为与 NFPA 及 SFPE 合作出版。

• Access is hybrid. Subscriptions still carry most reading, yet authors may pay for open access, and the journal reports about 350 open access articles in total.访问模式为混合型，订阅仍是主要阅读渠道，作者亦可付费选择开放获取，刊物自报累计约 350 篇开放获取论文。

• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor stands at 2.4, with a five-year figure of 3.6. Earlier values were 3.605 in 2022, 2.3 in 2023 and 2.4 in 2024.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 3.6，更早的数值是 2022 年 3.605，2023 年 2.3，2024 年 2.4。

• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it ranks Q2 in Engineering, Multidisciplinary at 69 of 178 titles, and Q3 in Materials Science, Multidisciplinary at 326 of 472.在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，该刊列工程综合类 Q2 区，178 种刊中排第 69，列材料科学综合类 Q3 区，472 种刊中排第 326。

• Output runs to roughly 126 papers a year, they have attracted some 5,444 citations, and the cited half-life of the title is 5.8 years.年发文量约 126 篇，累计被引约 5444 次，刊物的被引半衰期为 5.8 年。

• Three annual prizes mark that record: the Harry C. Bigglestone Award of the Fire Protection Research Foundation, the Jack Bono Award of the SFPE Educational and Scientific Foundation, and the Jack Watts Award for reviewing.三项年度奖项印证这份记录，分别是消防研究基金会（Fire Protection Research Foundation）的 Harry C. Bigglestone 奖、SFPE 教育与科学基金会的 Jack Bono 奖，以及表彰审稿工作的 Jack Watts 奖。

• Recent editorial programming has opened two topical collections, one on wildland-urban interface fires and urban conflagrations, the other on fire safety during building construction and renovation.近年的编辑规划开出两个专题合集，一个谈荒野城市交界带火灾与城市大火，另一个谈建筑施工与翻新期间的消防安全。

• A standing collection called Fire Science Reviews gathers comprehensive review papers that appear inside the journal, giving long-form synthesis a visible home.常设合集 Fire Science Reviews 汇集刊内发表的综合性综述，让长篇综合文字有了明确的归处。

• Speed is part of the offer: the platform reports a median of 46 days from submission to first decision and 608,400 downloads during 2025.处理速度也是卖点，平台公布从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 46 天，2025 年下载量约 60.8 万次。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Guillermo Rein, professor of fire science at Imperial College London, whose research centres on smouldering combustion, fire dynamics and the thermal breakdown of materials.主编为伦敦帝国理工学院（Imperial College London）的火灾科学教授（Guillermo Rein），研究集中在阴燃、火灾动力学与材料热解。

• An assistant editor-in-chief, Yu Wang of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, shares the handling of manuscripts and the commissioning of collections.副主编（Yu Wang）任职于合肥的中国科学技术大学（University of Science and Technology of China），分担稿件处理与合集组稿。

• John M. Watts Jr. of the Fire Safety Institute in Maryland holds the title of editor emeritus and remains associated with the journal's review culture.荣休主编为马里兰州消防研究所（Fire Safety Institute）的（John M. Watts Jr.），仍与刊物的评审传统保持联系。

• Sixteen associate editors carry the day-to-day file load, among them Eleni Asimakopoulou at the University of Lancashire, Thomas Gernay at Johns Hopkins and Enrico Ronchi at Lund.日常稿件由十六位副编辑分担，其中包括兰开夏大学（University of Lancashire）的（Eleni Asimakopoulou）、约翰斯·霍普金斯大学（Johns Hopkins University）的（Thomas Gernay）与隆德大学（Lund University）的（Enrico Ronchi）。

• East Asia is well represented on that tier, with Xinyan Huang at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Naian Liu at USTC and Yuji Nakamura at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan.这一层级里东亚面孔不少，香港理工大学（Hong Kong Polytechnic University）的（Xinyan Huang）、中国科学技术大学的（Naian Liu）与日本丰桥技术科学大学（Toyohashi University of Technology）的（Yuji Nakamura）都在列。

• Roughly fifty further members sit on the editorial board, drawn from the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Japan, Australia, Canada, Poland and Chile.编委会另设约五十名成员，来自美国、英国、中国、法国、德国、意大利、西班牙、比利时、瑞典、日本、澳大利亚、加拿大、波兰与智利。

• Decisions rest on validity, usefulness and presentation, and the qualities sought are originality, novelty, rigour, timeliness and clarity rather than length or venue prestige.裁决依据为有效性、有用性与表达质量，看重的品质是原创、新颖、严谨、时效与清晰，篇幅与作者机构的声望不在其列。

• Manuscripts go through the journal's SpringerLink site, which also publishes a pre-submission checklist that authors are asked to work through before uploading.稿件经刊物的 SpringerLink 页面提交，站点另设投稿前检查清单，供作者在上传之前逐项过一遍。

• The editorial team runs the review cycle in house, and reviewers are recognised each year through the Jack Watts Award for outstanding reviewing.整个评审流程由编辑部自己组织，审稿人每年经 Jack Watts 优秀审稿奖得到表彰。

• The reviews channel, Fire Science Reviews, is overseen from inside the journal and invites synthesis of a literature that is otherwise scattered across conference proceedings.综述通道 Fire Science Reviews 由刊内照看，征集对那些原本散落在会议论文集里的文献的综合梳理。

• Both partner bodies hold a seat at the table, with Birgitte Messerschmidt representing the National Fire Protection Association and Joshua Reichert representing the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.两家合作机构在编委中各占一席，国家消防协会由（Birgitte Messerschmidt）代表，消防工程师学会由（Joshua Reichert）代表。

• Authors may publish open access against an article processing charge, and roughly a third of recent output is recorded as gold open access in the citation reports.作者可支付文章处理费以开放获取方式发表，近年约三分之一的产出在引证报告里计为金色开放获取。

• The board mixes universities, national laboratories, fire services and engineering consultancies, which keeps review close to both the test hall and the design office.编委兼有高校与国家实验室，也有消防机构及工程咨询公司，评审因此贴近试验大厅，也贴近设计事务所。