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Fire dynamics and safety research

Fire dynamics and safety research is a research topic within Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the safety measures and strategies for controlling and mitigating fires in tunnels. It covers topics such as smoke control, ventilation systems, fire dynamics, combustion modeling, heat release rates, smoke temperature, fire suppression, buoyancy-driven flow, and fire behavior.

  • Tunnel Fires
  • Smoke Control
  • Ventilation Systems
  • Fire Dynamics
  • Combustion Modeling
  • Heat Release Rates
  • Smoke Temperature
  • Fire Suppression
  • Buoyancy-Driven Flow
  • Fire Behavior
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fire dynamics and safety research

Which countries lead Fire dynamics and safety research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.9k and 680 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.9k works
  2. 2 United States 680 works
  3. 3 India 238 works
  4. 4 France 197 works
  5. 5 Russia 193 works
  6. 6 South Korea 192 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 170 works
  8. 8 Germany 148 works
  9. 9 Japan 144 works
  10. 10 Australia 121 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 58.4%United States: 13.6%India: 4.8%France: 3.9%6 others listed: 19.3%58%largest
China2,930 · 58.4%United States680 · 13.6%India238 · 4.8%France197 · 3.9%6 others listed968 · 19.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Fire dynamics and safety research research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Science and Technology of China publishes the most Fire dynamics and safety research research, followed by China University of Mining and Technology and Nanjing Tech University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 159 works
  2. 2 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 126 works
  3. 3 Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 77 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 71 works
  5. 5 Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 59 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 59 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 55 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 55 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 49 works
  10. 10 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fire dynamics and safety research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fire dynamics and safety research include Lídia Morawska, Philippe Ciais and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Michelle Lee Bell United States 197k citations
  5. 5 Michael D Brauer Canada 187k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Fire dynamics and safety research?

The most cited paper in Fire dynamics and safety research is "Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009)" (Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Louis Giglio et al., 2010), with 3,264 citations. Next come "AIJ guidelines for practical applications of CFD to pedestrian wind environment around buildings" (2,475) and "Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage" (2,297).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009) Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Louis Giglio et al. · Atmospheric chemistry and physics Open access 10 Dec 2010 3,264
2 AIJ guidelines for practical applications of CFD to pedestrian wind environment around buildings Yoshihide Tominaga, Akashi Mochida, Ryuichiro Yoshie et al. · Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 16 Apr 2008 2,475
3 Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage Jon E. Keeley · International Journal of Wildland Fire 17 Feb 2009 2,297
4 Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013 W. Matt Jolly, Mark A. Cochrane, Patrick H. Freeborn et al. · Nature Communications Open access 14 Jul 2015 2,224
5 Laminar diffusion flamelet models in non-premixed turbulent combustion Nils Peters · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 1984 2,108
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fire dynamics and safety research research done?

The largest centres of Fire dynamics and safety research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Hefei (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cherkasy and Xuzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 473 works
  2. 2 HefeiChina 212 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 208 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 175 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 154 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 132 works
  7. 7 XuzhouChina 130 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 118 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 94 works
  10. 10 QingdaoChina 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CherkasyUA · 24.5 works35×
  2. XuzhouCN · 129.8 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fire dynamics and safety research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fire dynamics and safety research?

Among universities, judged by research, Qingdao University, Xi'an University of Science and Technology and University of Science and Technology of China score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 21.25%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Qingdao UniversityXi'an University of …China University of …University of Scienc…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Qingdao UniversityChina 67.231.1%5.2×20 +38.2%
2Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.522.6%47.3×59 +89.8%
3University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 64.613.2%24.4×158 +9.0%
4China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 63.413.5%29.3×126 +80.5%
5Chongqing UniversityChina 60.721.1%6.8×40 +62.5%
6Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 60.222.5%6.9×45 +44.1%
7Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 59.818.3%9.4×41 +65.2%
8Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 57.633.9%5.6×13 +97.2%
9Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 57.315.9%8.5×40 +16.7%
10Dalian UniversityChina 57.320.4%18.7×24 +142.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Fire dynamics and safety research, country by country

Is Fire dynamics and safety research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Fire dynamics and safety research.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Fire dynamics and safety research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Fire dynamics and safety research0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fire dynamics and safety research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Fire dynamics and safety research9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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