A Characterization of Fire-Management Research: A Bibliometric Review of Global Networks and Themes

Although humans have interacted with wildfires for millennia, a science-based approach to fire management has evolved in recent decades. This paper reviews the development of fire-management research, focusing on publications that use this term their title, abstract, or keywords identified Scopus platform. resulted identification 5624 documents published between 1973 and 2021. Publication rates particularly increased since 2010. The details characteristics body literature, including main authors, institutions, countries. Furthermore, it considers bibliographic networks, research foci, publications’ study areas. First, these analyses provide researchers interested an overview field its most prominent sources, publications. Second, they invite reflection current state research. In particular, considerable disparities spatial foci countries authorship suggest challenges today’s problems are more likely be overcome balanced global effort.