Journal profile · Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Forestry
Fire
ISSN 2571-6255 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · Switzerland
Fire: CAS Zone 3 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.2 (journal website); JCR Q1 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 11 weeks (community reports); 491 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Fire is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) and is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Fire effects on ecosystems, Fire dynamics and safety research and Fire Detection and Safety Systems, together about 49% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Fire (ISSN 2571-6255) is an international open-access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse scientific and practical knowledge to converge in the interest of promoting more safe, effective, and scientifically driven expertise in the policy, community actions, and operational management of fires. Fire was established in 2018 and was originally focused on fire ecology and the role of vegetation fires on the landscape. Today, the journal welcomes include a wider diversity of fire science topics. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions from studies that take a pyrogeography perspective of vegetation fires occurring in natural, cultural, and industrial landscapes and how they interact with communities in the science–policy interface. We seek the submission of case studies highlighting significant fire events or examples of governmental or community-based fire management. We also encourage methodological technical notes and data descriptions to enable global cross-comparisons of core science methods, data types, and fires. This journal also encourages submissions related to the historical, policy, and social science aspects of fire science and fire management. Fire science research focused on the inside of buildings (structural response to fire, smoke and heat transport, ignition and fire spread, technical solutions for fire safety) may also be considered. Submissions related to battery fires are welcome. Fire is particularly interested in submissions that consider the growing challenge of landscape fires occurring in and around the interface between vegetated lands, rural structures, villages, and other residential areas including peri-urban areas. Fire is interested in all forms of fire ecology, including fire impacts on flora, fauna, and human communities from the organism to population scales and evolutionary adaptations. Fire is also interested in research focused on vegetation fires arising from lightning, transportation sources, power lines, munitions, and other natural and human sources. Fire also encourages submissions of papers bridging the areas of vegetation/landscape fires and building fires that focus on environmental consequences of large fires (also in urban environments), protection of buildings against wildfires/landscape fires, and the development of models useful for both fields. Fires can range from the labora
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Forestry
Editor-in-chief Grant WilliamsonPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 18, Italy 3, Australia 2, United Kingdom 1, Germany 1 (31 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Fire effects on ecosystemsEnvironmental Science24.4%
- Fire dynamics and safety researchEngineering17%
- Fire Detection and Safety SystemsEngineering7.6%
- Evacuation and Crowd DynamicsEngineering7%
- Combustion and Detonation ProcessesEngineering4.5%
- Landslides and related hazardsEnvironmental Science3.8%
- Rangeland and Wildlife ManagementEnvironmental Science3.7%
- Fire effects on concrete materialsEngineering2.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Forestry | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Ecology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Ecology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Forestry | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Forestry | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Ecology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · Forestry
- CiteScore Q1 · Forestry
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.64LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.96LetPub ·
- h-index
- 53OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 681OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.91OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,411 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 399 | 399 | 145 |
| 2025 | 491 | 491 | 1,716 |
| 2024 | 487 | 487 | 3,520 |
| 2023 | 477 | 477 | 5,661 |
| 2022 | 232 | 232 | 3,093 |
| 2021 | 102 | 102 | 2,380 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 11 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 20.3 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 3.6 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | CHF 2,400 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | CHF 2,400 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 2,400 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | CHF 2,600 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted18
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
Fire is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Fire will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and condi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
Fire accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates independently o…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2571-6255
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Fire
What CAS zone is Fire in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Fire is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Forestry / Ecology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Fire?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 5.1, h-index 53.
How long does peer review take at Fire?
Authors report an average review time of about 11 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What JCR quartile is Fire in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1; by category, Forestry Q1. JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences.
What are the manuscript requirements of Fire?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Fire based?
Of the 31 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (18), Italy (3) and Australia (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Fire?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Fire is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Fire open access, and what is the APC?
Fire is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .