Publishing in Fire Ecology

Fire Ecology publishes peer-reviewed articles on all ecological and management aspects relating to wildland fire. We welcome submissions on topics that include a broad range of research on the ecological relationships of fire to its environment, including, but not limited to:

  • Ecology (physical and biological fire effects, fire regimes, etc.)

  • Social science (geography, sociology, anthropology, etc.)

  • Fuel

  • Fire science and modeling

  • Planning and risk management

  • Law and policy

  • Fire management

  • Inter- or cross-disciplinary fire-related topics

  • Technology transfer products

In addition, the journal:

  • Advertises your published paper across a variety of social media channels and outlets

  • Allows you to coordinate publication date with news releases

  • Accepts papers from a wide diversity of disciplines from social science to risk analysis

  • Has a timeline of 17 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (median) and 179 days submission to accept (median)

  • Provides a wide range of article types from field notes to monographs to original research

  • Encourages special issues and conference proceedings

  • Compiles extensive citation statistics for your paper

AFE MEMBER DISCOUNT

AFE members are eligible for a 20% discount on research, review, brief report, case study, book review, conference proceedings. To receive this discount, please email office@fireecology.net and ask for the membership discount after your paper has been accepted. We will then check your membership status, and you will be sent the discount token and additional instructions from the Publisher.