OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Forest Ecology and Management is 43. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	147
Editorial Board	137
Use of national forest inventory data to develop stand density driven models for understorey shrubs and overstorey fuel variables and associated temporal dynamics in commercial plantations	136
Determining the effects of reduced water availability on seed germination of five bottomland hardwood tree species	134
Long-term effects of forest harvesting on habitat use by temperate insectivorous bats.	114
Comparative transcriptomes of four Elm species provide insights into the genetic features and adaptive evolution of Ulmus spp.	102
Early impacts of fire suppression in Jeffrey pine – Mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico	100
Changes in understory plant communities following soil scarification and amendments in a Northern Hardwood Forest	94
Evaluating the impact of an invasive pathogen on tree population decline: An evidence based modelling approach	87
The effects of a moderate severity hurricane on gap characteristics in a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) woodland	82
Drought and fire affect soil CO2 efflux and use of non-structural carbon by roots in forests of southern Amazonia	74
Corrigendum to “Faster evapotranspiration recovery compared to canopy development post clearcutting in a floodplain forest” [Forest Ecol. Manag. 532 (2023), 1–13/ 120828]	68
Acorn Review: Focus on ground-based extraction systems: Is skidding really more impactful than forwarding?	65
Thinning and tending could enhance the understory regeneration potential of seed bank during the subtropical pine forest restoration	64
The shadeshed: A lidar-based variable width shade buffer and riparian core for headwater streams	64
Leaf functional traits as browsing indicators in understory woody species of Mediterranean forests	60
Native trees within plantations and surrounding forest cover are essential for bird conservation in cashew-dominated landscapes within a biodiversity hotspot	59
Moderate thinning is more conducive to soil organic carbon stability of planted forests	59
Mapping alien and native forest dynamics in Chile using Earth observation time series analysis	56
Mortality and growth patterns of habitat trees in montane forests	55
Keep your tree above the water: Competition and flooding drive the recent decline of Carya illinoinensis in the Upper Mississippi River	54
Elevated tree mortality as a regeneration niche for oak? Testing different management approaches in a meliorated floodplain forest	54
An integrated approach combining bi-temporal airborne laser scanning and X-ray microdensitometry in assessing wood properties	53
The role of stump treatment as a preventive control method against Heterobasidion root rot in forestry	52
The speed of eastern hemlock loss alters the persistence of microbial legacies following hemlock woolly adelgid infestation	52

Long-term effects of prescribed fire on large tree growth in mixed conifer forests at Lassen Volcanic National Park, California	51
Wildfire interactions with recruitment of giant sequoia in experimental canopy gaps	50
Small canopy gaps influence vegetation dynamics and functionality in topographically complex landscapes	50
Climate-mediated lodgepole pine tree growth response to thinning and fertilization in interior British Columbia	49
Characterizing the Spectral-Temporal Signatures of Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis) Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Images and Phenology Modelling	49
The case for stand management guidelines as dynamic as global change: Aspen forest stockings of the western Great Lakes	48
Assessing coarse woody debris by integrating full area sampling and line intersect sampling: Combining the best of both worlds	47
Litter stoichiometric traits drive differences in soil organic carbon stability between rubber plantations and natural secondary forests	47
Optimizing height measurement for the long-term forest experiments in Sweden	47
Genomic prediction of superior heartwood traits in pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) using GWAS-informed Bayesian models	46
Effects of Douglas fir cultivation in German forests on soil seepage water quantity and quality	46
Moderate-resolution mapping of aboveground biomass stocks, forest structure, and composition in coastal Alaska and British Columbia	46
Performance of seedlings of four coniferous species planted in two boreal lichen woodlands with contrasting soil fertility	46
Partial cutting in mixed boreonemoral forests as a restoration approach to increase insect diversity	45
Development of tools to estimate the contribution of young sweet chestnut plantations to climate-change mitigation	44
Natural regeneration responses of tree species at the end of the first timber harvesting cycle in the Eastern Amazon	44
Pitfalls of forest damage detection using medium-resolution imagery: A response to the paper of Karpov et al. (2024)	43
Corrigendum to “Shaping gas exchange under drought: Seasonal and interspecific variation in photosynthetic traits of Pinus halepensis and Pinus brutia in Mediterranean forests” [For. Ecol. Manag. 609	43
Fertilisation and irrigation have no effects on growth of oak (Quercus robur, Q. petraea) stands on abandoned farmland in southwest Sweden	43