Journal History

2018

The inaugural issue was released. Fire was published as a quarterly journal.
Prof. Dr. Alistair M. S. Smith served as founding Editor-in-Chief.
The Global Wildland Fire Network was affiliated with Fire.

2019

Fire published its 100th paper in August.

2020

Fire was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1).
Fire established the following section:
Fire Science Data and Models Section.

Fire was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1).
Fire received its first CiteScore (2020) of 3.7, ranked 24/142 (Q1) in "Forestry" and 17/88 (Q1) in "Safty Research".
Fire was indexed in JUFO.
Fire established the following section:
Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface.
Fire announced the Fire 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award winner: Dr Daniel May.
Fire announced 13 Network partners: The Global Wildland Fire Network, The Northern Rockies Fire Science Network, The Great Plains Fire Science Exchange, The Alaska Fire Science Consortium, The Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, The Southern Fire Exchange, The Pacific Fire Exchange, The Miombo Network, The Southern African Fire Network, The Mediterranean Regional Information Network, The South Asia Regional Information Network, Fire Research and Management Exchange System, The Southern Rockies Fire Science Network.

Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. James A. Lutz for the section on Fire Science Models, Remote Sensing, and Data

Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Natasha Ribeiro for the section on Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface

Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Tiago Miguel Ferreira for the section on Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alistair M. S. Smith for the section on Fire Science Models, Remote Sensing, and Data
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ali Cemal Benim for the section on Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire