Andrew Sullivan

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Andrew Sullivan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Sullivan has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 16 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Andrew Sullivan's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (57 papers), Fire dynamics and safety research (28 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (16 papers). Andrew Sullivan is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (57 papers), Fire dynamics and safety research (28 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (16 papers). Andrew Sullivan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and India. Andrew Sullivan's co-authors include Miguel G. Cruz, James S. Gould, Stuart Matthews, Phil Cheney, Rowena Ball, J. J. Hollis, Neil Sims, Matt P. Plucinski, W. L. McCaw and P. F. M. Ellis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Sullivan

73 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Anatomy of a catastrophic wildfire: The Black Saturday Kilmore East fire in Victoria, Australia

2012 320 citations Miguel G. Cruz, Andrew Sullivan et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Andrew Sullivan	2.2k	849	472	472	301	76	2.8k
Adam C. Watts	1.6k 0.7×	299 0.4×	1.1k 2.4×	189 0.4×	341 1.1×	61	3.2k
Frédéric Berger	1.2k 0.6×	329 0.4×	535 1.1×	1.8k 3.9×	489 1.6×	100	3.0k
Bahareh Kalantar	1.5k 0.7×	334 0.4×	389 0.8×	894 1.9×	60 0.2×	76	3.2k
Abolfazl Jaafari	3.6k 1.6×	585 0.7×	640 1.4×	2.3k 4.9×	142 0.5×	89	5.4k
Kevin Tansey	2.8k 1.3×	238 0.3×	2.5k 5.2×	247 0.5×	431 1.4×	123	5.0k
Francesca Pianosi	1.7k 0.8×	121 0.1×	276 0.6×	277 0.6×	111 0.4×	97	5.0k
Chang-Wook Lee	1.3k 0.6×	236 0.3×	324 0.7×	1.4k 2.9×	23 0.1×	174	3.7k
Roberto Arnaldo Trancoso Gomes	655 0.3×	134 0.2×	710 1.5×	471 1.0×	56 0.2×	123	2.1k
Zhixiao Xie	443 0.2×	270 0.3×	599 1.3×	58 0.1×	107 0.4×	37	2.1k
İsmail Çölkesen	1.1k 0.5×	273 0.3×	561 1.2×	1.2k 2.5×	24 0.1×	45	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew Sullivan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Sullivan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrew Sullivan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrew Sullivan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Andrew Sullivan. Andrew Sullivan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Sullivan, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive methodology for tracking burning firebrands in a vertical wind tunnel using multi-view video analysis. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 34(10).

Ettler, Vojtěch, et al.. (2025). Thermally-induced release of arsenic from minerals and phases relevant to polluted natural systems affected by wildfires. Applied Geochemistry. 182. 106318–106318. 1 indexed citations

Guérette, Élise-Andrée, Clare Paton‐Walsh, Maximilien Desservettaz, et al.. (2025). Simplifying emissions modelling from wildland fires: laboratory-scale emission factors are independent of fine woody debris fuel load. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 34(1). 1 indexed citations

Sullivan, Andrew, et al.. (2024). An Inventory of Rangeland Wildlife in the Western United States. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 98. 170–176. 1 indexed citations

Bateman, Lori Brand, et al.. (2021). Barriers and facilitators to bikeshare programs: A qualitative study in an urban environment. Journal of Transport & Health. 21. 101062–101062. 26 indexed citations

Gould, James S. & Andrew Sullivan. (2021). Initial growth of fires in eucalypt litter, from ignition to steady-state rate of spread: laboratory studies. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 31(2). 163–175. 3 indexed citations

Cruz, Miguel G., N. P. Cheney, James S. Gould, et al.. (2021). An empirical-based model for predicting the forward spread rate of wildfires in eucalypt forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 31(1). 81–95. 44 indexed citations

Biswas, Tapas, Fazlul Karim, Anupama Kumar, et al.. (2021). 2019–2020 Bushfire impacts on sediment and contaminant transport following rainfall in the Upper Murray River catchment. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 17(6). 1203–1214. 22 indexed citations

Gould, Jim & Andrew Sullivan. (2020). Two methods for calculating wildland fire rate of forward spread. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 29(3). 272–281. 14 indexed citations

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Cruz, Miguel G., et al.. (2020). Fire behaviour in wheat crops – effect of fuel structure on rate of fire spread. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 29(3). 258–271. 18 indexed citations

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Cruz, Miguel G., Andrew Sullivan, & James S. Gould. (2020). The effect of fuel bed height in grass fire spread: addressing the findings and recommendations of Moinuddin et al. (2018). International Journal of Wildland Fire. 30(3). 215–220. 5 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Andrew, et al.. (2019). Investigation of the effects of interactions of intersecting oblique fire lines with and without wind in a combustion wind tunnel. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 28(9). 704–719. 14 indexed citations

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Surawski, Nicholas C., Lynne M. Macdonald, Jeff Baldock, et al.. (2019). Exploring how fire spread mode shapes the composition of pyrogenic carbon from burning forest litter fuels in a combustion wind tunnel. The Science of The Total Environment. 698. 134306–134306. 8 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Andrew, et al.. (2016). Repeatability of free-burning fire experiments using heterogeneous forest fuel beds in a combustion wind tunnel. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(4). 445–455. 14 indexed citations

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Surawski, Nicholas C., Andrew Sullivan, Stephen H. Roxburgh, C. P. Meyer, & P. J. Polglase. (2016). Incorrect interpretation of carbon mass balance biases global vegetation fire emission estimates. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11536–11536. 33 indexed citations

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Hilton, James, Claire Miller, & Andrew Sullivan. (2016). A power series formulation for two-dimensional wildfire shapes. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(9). 970–979. 5 indexed citations

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Surawski, Nicholas C., Andrew Sullivan, C. P. Meyer, Stephen H. Roxburgh, & P. J. Polglase. (2015). Greenhouse gas emissions from laboratory-scale fires in wildland fuels depend on fire spread mode and phase of combustion. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(9). 5259–5273. 37 indexed citations

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Ellis, P. F. M., et al.. (2015). Long-distance spotting potential of bark strips of a ribbon gum (Eucalyptus viminalis). International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24(8). 1109–1117. 25 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Andrew, Jason J. Sharples, Stuart Matthews, & Matt P. Plucinski. (2014). A downslope fire spread correction factor based on landscape-scale fire behaviour. Environmental Modelling & Software. 62. 153–163. 40 indexed citations

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Sisiopiku, Virginia P., et al.. (2011). Impacts of Signal System Timings on Rain Related Congestion. 2(1). 1–12. 4 indexed citations

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