Fig. 3: Pervasive imbalances measured by the numbers of wildfire-related publications and satellite-based burned areas.
From: Large language models reveal big disparities in current wildfire research
We classified the pixels into three major categories with imbalance level scales from 1 to 6. The percentile thresholds for pixels were established at the 50th and 90th percentiles for assessing the relative scale of publications, ensuring inclusion of studies spanning from 1980 to 2022. These thresholds corresponded to multi-year averages of 19.5 and 31.6 papers per year, respectively. Regarding burned area analysis, a 90th percentile threshold (equivalent to 554.3 hectares per year) and a frequency threshold (requiring at least 90% coverage across the entire temporal span of the burned area product) were applied. Blank pixels indicate areas where no burned area was observed within AVHRR-LTDR31.
