OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Forest Research is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing landscape partitioning approaches to protect wildlife habitat in managed forests	58
Evaluating the use of Ca/Sr and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios to track Ca sources in sugar maple in Ontario	32
Contextualizing recent increases in Canadian boreal wildfire activity: decadal burn rates still within historical variability of the two past centuries	30
Correction: Recovery rates of white spruce and balsam fir on seismic lines in NW Alberta, Canada	26
Predicting distribution overlaps between Dendroctonus adjunctus Blandford 1897 and six Pinus species in Mexico under global climate change	25
Hydrological and nutrient regulation per occupation unit differ between structurally contrasting native and planted forests in the Northern Andes	23
The impact of rural labor migration on forestry input allocation: evidence from Guizhou Province, China	22
Rodent-mediated seed limitation affects woody seedling establishment more than invasive shrubs and downed woody debris	21
Effects of overstory tree density, site preparation, and ground vegetation on natural Scots pine seedling emergence and survival in northern boreal pine forests	20
Cumulative effects of biomass harvesting and herbicide application on litter-dwelling arthropod communities in jack pine-dominated forests: 7th year postharvest assessment	18
Diversity, phytosociological aspects, and indicator species of natural forests in Paraguay	18
Early stages of decay in Eucalyptus grandis trees inoculated with brown-rot fungi	15
Do Azospirillum brasiliense and Chlorella sp. microalgae benefit the production of Hymenaea courbaril L. seedlings?	15
Effects of cutting speed and feed per knife on energy requirements for processing black spruce logs with a chipper-canter	13
Excluding deer browse increases stump sprouting success and height growth following regeneration harvests	13
Age structure of saplings in canopy openings of mature longleaf pine woodlands	12
Long-term (17-year) dynamics of herbaceous plant communities after shelterwood regeneration harvests in southern Appalachian cove- and upland hardwood forests	12
Six year efficacy of silvicultural treatments to control American beech regeneration in stands affected by beech bark disease in Ontario, Canada	12
Enhanced forest inventories in Canada: implementation, status, and research needs	12
Linking burn severity to pre-fire forest structure and weather on the Dixie fire offers potential to map prospective burn severity	12
Whitebark pine persistence potential highly variable following disturbance in the Intermountain West, USA	12
On the characterization of patterning in spruce budworm time-series data	11
Correction: A data compilation and synthesis of the impacts of seismic surveys on surface soil properties in boreal Alberta, Canada	11
Can’t see the flowers for the trees: factors driving floral abundance within early-successional forests in the central Appalachian Mountains	11
Citizen beliefs concerning wood as a construction material under extreme weather events	11

Seed coatings containing capsaicin reduce seed removal in temperate woody species	11
Variable synchrony in insect outbreak cycling across a forest landscape gradient: multi-scale evidence from trembling aspen in Alberta	11
Effect of tillage on soil mechanical parameters, fine root growth, and productivity of young Pinus taeda plantations	10
Defoliation level interacts with tree species and soil richness to determine volume increment reduction and recovery from simulated spruce budworm attack	10
Effect of 3-year amendment measures on coastal saline–alkali soil conditions during the growing season	10
Effects of artificial nitrogen deposition on the forest floor and soil chemistry in chestnut-leaved oak (Quercus castaneifolia) plantation in northern Iran	10
Impact of single and combined soil amendments on the growth and foliar nutrients of white spruce (Picea glauca) on a poorly regenerated logged site	10
Effects of Ganoderma lucidum cultivation in forests on soil organic carbon pool and microbial community physiological profiles	10
Fuzzy logic applied in the prospecting of suitable areas for the establishment of commercial forest plantations	9
Optimal allocation model of forest fire detection towers in protected areas based on fire occurrence risk: Where and how to act?	9
Global value chain participation, trade cost and benefits of timber industry	9
Sugar maple seedling regeneration of a natural cohort across a latitudinal gradient in New Hampshire	9
How consistent are citizen science data sources, an exploratory study using free automated image recognition apps for woody plant identification	9
Mapping old-growth forests using airborne lidar data and satellite images: how do plot size and rarity affect accuracy?	9
Wood energy quality of Eucalyptus spp. clones established under different soil types in the Brazilian Cerrado	8
A comparison of fast-growing maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton.) plantations with native broadleaved vegetation for greenhouse gas balances	8
Trembling aspen biomass equations and carbon estimations for southern Saskatchewan copses	8
Forest restoration mitigates drought vulnerability of coast Douglas-fir in a Mediterranean climate	8
A decision support tool for forwarding operations with sequence-dependent loading	8
Melampsora larici-populina homologous effectors Mlp72983 and Mlp52166 display cell-type specific accumulation in Arabidopsis and Populus	8
Modeling the distribution of hemlock woolly adelgid under several climate change scenarios	8
The rapid expansion of Populus tremuloides due to anthropogenic disturbances in eastern Canada	8
Effects of interspecific competition on early growth of genetically improved white spruce in mixedwood stands in northeastern Alberta	8
Which factors influence consumers’ selection of wood as a building material for houses?	8
Shifting balance between natural mortality and harvesting in forests of the northeastern USA	8
Model-based small-area estimation with area-effects for sampled and non-sampled domains	8
Fire, Bugs, and Logging: What the Public Thinks About Forest Disturbance and Management in Canada	8
Aboveground carbon stock of scarified black spruce stands—a 20-year study in boreal ecosystems	8
Modelling diameter at breast height distribution of jack pine and black spruce natural stands in eastern Canada	8
Fire regime changes in Canada: an update	7
Mexican mixed-species forest shows resilience to high-intensity fire	7
Correction: Integrating the effects of climate change into long-term strategic forest management planning using a process-based stand model	7
The vulnerability of Canadian forest-dependent communities to climate change: an indicator-based approach	7
Evaluation of mobile laser scanning acquisition scenarios for automated wood volume estimation in a temperate hardwood forest using quantitative structural models	7
Fungal community dynamics in coarse woody debris across decay stage, tree species, and stand development stage in northern boreal forests	7
Physical and mechanical properties affecting the suitability of black ash wood for W8banaki basketry	7
Development of tree recruitment models for 10 species groups in the sugar maple-dominated mixed forests of eastern Canada	7
Tree and stand characteristics associated with the occurrence of false heartwood in individual Japanese white birch trees	7
Residual canopy cover provides buffering of near-surface temperatures, but benefits are limited under extreme conditions	7
Females as forest machine operators	7
Response of moose to forest harvest and management: a literature review	7
Modeling knot geometry from scanned images of Korean pine plantations	7
Economics of strip harvesting in drained boreal peatland forests	7
Long-term effects of herbivory on tree growth are not consistent with browsing preferences	7
Comparing outbreak regimes of western spruce budworm at low- and high-elevation sites in Idaho using dendrochronology	6
A correction for serial nonindependence in mountain pine beetle aerial survey data to reduce overestimation of cumulative damage	6
Designing circular fixed-area plots in large-scale forest inventories: effect of horizontal distance measurement uncertainty and tree position pattern	6
Cross-site comparison of ecosystem nutrient cycling in hardwood and conifer forests on contrasting soils	6
Understanding the diversity of objectives among women forest owners in Finland	6
Efficacy of prescribed fire as a fuel reduction treatment in the Colorado Front Range	6

Spruce budworm defoliation patterns during outbreak rise are influenced by tree species, insecticide spraying, and spatial autocorrelation	6
Freeze–thaw events differently affect survival of seeds of two native and two invasive woody species	6
Biomass accumulation in trees and downed wood in northern hardwood forests: Repeated measures of a successional chronosequence in New Hampshire, USA	6
CO₂ flux from Acer saccharum logs: sources of variation and the influence of silvicultural treatments	6
Effects of tree stump treatments for reducing Armillaria root disease within conifer plantations of southeastern British Columbia	6
Light patterns align with successful Quercus and Carya regeneration but reveal continued challenges in managing dry-mesic southern Appalachian upland hardwood forests	6
Complex network analysis of global forest products trade pattern	6
Collection: Changing wildfire regimes, their impacts, and the path forward	6
Documenting forest juvenilization in high-elevation old-growth forests in southern inland British Columbia, with implications for the winter ecology of Canada’s endangered Deep-Snow Caribou	6
α-Pinene concentrations in bark tissue affect intra-specific variation in the susceptibility to vole gnawing of Japanese larch	6
Species diversity assessment and aboveground biomass estimation of mangroves using remote sensing and field observations	6
The dynamics of a changing Lutz spruce (Picea × lutzii) hybrid zone on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska	6
New perspectives on radial profiles of specific gravity in North American conifers	6
Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America	6
The influence of forestland tenure security on rural labor migration—further discussion based on migration location	5
A quantitative approach to defining soil nutrient regimes within ecosystem classifications for Northwestern Ontario	5
Building a high-resolution site index map using boosted regression trees: the Norwegian case	5
Impact of the lunar nodal cycle on subalpine tree growth in the North American Cordillera	5
Long-term stability of northern hardwoods across a topographic gradient and variations in harvest methods	5
Key omissions in caribou policy modelling: a reply to Yemshanov et al. (2025)	5
Modeling stand fire probabilities with unobserved heterogeneity. Estimating stand age and climate change effects in Chilean radiata pine plantations	5
The role of uncertain forest data in a hierarchical forest planning setting with misaligned objectives	5
Additional biomass estimation alternatives: nonlinear two- and three-stage least squares and full information maximum likelihood for slash pine	5
Subalpine fir microsatellite variation reveals the complex relationship between var. lasiocarpa and var. bifolia	5
Seasonal bird communities in Shelterwood harvests and unmanaged mature forest	5
Aggregated retention protects trees against wind, but not against disease: a long-term study in mixed forests	5
Approximating covariances between nested plot sizes in forest inventory	5
Assessing the influence of simulated ice storm-induced crown damage on nonstructural carbohydrates, wound closure, and radial growth of maple trees	5
Economic impacts of climate change on forests: a PICUS–LANDIS–CGE modeling approach	5
Monitoring seedling stands using national forest inventory and multispectral airborne laser scanning data	5
Soil savvy: how stable isotopes are shaping forest ecosystem management	5
Anticipating potential wildfire size from fine fuel moisture content	5
Thinning to meet sawlog objectives at shorter rotation in lodgepole pine stands	5
Genotype and environment interaction on the wood quality of Eucalyptus spp. for energy purposes	5
Identifying (less) vulnerable forest structures to storms in different conifer-dominated European forest landscapes by simple spaceborne proxies	5
Can climate variability and landscape position predict white pine blister rust incidence, mortality due to the disease, and regeneration in whitebark pine?	5
Allometric options for predicting tropical tree height and crown area from stem diameter in Central Africa	5
Populus deltoides is suitable for moist and short-term flooded soil conditions on the basis of its relative growth rate and stoichiometry	5
Influence of aerially seeded Pinus massoniana plantations on soil quality in severely eroded and degraded land of subtropical China	5
Responses of needle terpene concentrations and characteristics of resin canals to different warming treatments in Scots pine and Norway spruce seedlings grown in a field experiment	5
Vessel architecture as a potential factor in tree responses to early snowmelt: physiological trends across diffuse-porous and ring-porous species	5
Correction: Challenges and opportunities for the operationalization of forest-assisted migration in Canada	5
A bibliometric review of stakeholders' participation in sustainable forest management	4
Correction: Precommercial thinning increased diameter growth while maintaining mixedwood stands composition, 15 years after treatment	4
The impact of imported timber price fluctuations on the margins of wood forest product exports: empirical evidence from provincial-level data in China	4
Effects of different nutrient compensation treatments following forest fuel extraction on biomass of young Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.)	4
Quel sens donner à la sécurisation culturelle pour la main-d’œuvre autochtone? Le contexte du secteur forestier québécois	4
Genetic control and early selection of three Corymbia species	4
Identifying and analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981 to 2018	4
Sapling growth dynamics after partial cutting in temperate mixedwood stands	4
Prescribed fire effects on understory woody plants and fuels in Quercus–Pinus mixedwoods	4
Intensive management increases flexibility in managing wood supply	4
Spatially detailed tree-ring analysis exposes widespread forest growth decline throughout Canada	4
Measuring ecological grief to guide inclusive urban forest management	4
Absence of significant effect of nitrogen addition on soil respiration in a subtropical Chinese fir plantation	4
Determining the effectiveness of using acoustic velocity as an indirect measurement of branchiness in standing longleaf pine	4
Poor regeneration of pine after mountain pine beetle attack in colder boreal regions of Canada	4
Patterns of seed removal of fire-sensitive tree species in floodplain and upland sites in the absence of fire	4
Ring width distribution as a valuable anatomical trait for predicting bending strength and rigidity in European oak wood beams	4
Competition intensity varies with hardwood species identity and constrains stand-level productivity in southeastern pine–hardwood mixtures compared to loblolly pine monocultures	4
Overlooked sources of methane emissions from trees: branches and wounds	4
Tree stem volume estimation from terrestrial LiDAR point cloud by unwrapping	4
Nutrient ratios, foliar vector analysis, and nutrient use efficiency of four conifer stands growing under contrasting competing vegetation control treatments in the Pacific Northwest of the United Sta	4
A new approach for spatializing the Canadian National Forest Inventory (SCANFI) using Landsat dense time series	4
Small area estimation of growing stock timber volume, basal area, mean stem diameter, and stem density for mountain forests in Austria	4
Assessing and mitigating systematic errors in forest attribute maps utilizing harvester and airborne laser scanning data	4
Biodiversity implications of forest carbon payments	4
Quantifying tree biomass: insights from a long-term study at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest	4
Post-wildfire salvage logging effects on snag structure and dead woody fuel loadings	4
Precommercial thinning increased diameter growth while maintaining mixedwood stands composition, 15 years after treatment	4
Connecting the dots: elucidating the relationship between spruce budworm population dynamics and defoliation	4
Impact of imidacloprid-based chemical control for hemlock woolly adelgid ( Adelges tsugae ) on the eastern red-backed salamander (	4
Negative effects of belowground competition outweigh potential benefits of arbuscular mycorrhizal facilitation for seedling success in a managed temperate hardwood forest	4
Small area estimators in a simulation test	4
Assessing the influence of climate on the growth of green ash trees from five Plant Hardiness Zones growing in a range-wide provenance test near the species’ northern range limit	4
Cutting through market trends: the impact of macroeconomy, COVID-19 pandemic, and climate-related disasters costs on wood product prices in North America	4