OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of IAWA Journal is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Variations in bacterial decay between cell types and between cell wall regions in waterlogged archaeological wood excavated in the intertidal zone	24
Testing Carlquistian hypotheses on the functional significance of vessel element length	18
Anatomical properties of Hibiscus macrophyllus and its mature wood development	16
Ontogenesis and variation of wood ‘parenchymatization’ in Cochlospermum vitifolium (Bixaceae)	14
Mid-Cretaceous wood of Waihere Bay, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand	14
Influence of previous drought exposure on the 3D microstructure of the cambium and developing xylem in Eucalyptus clones: An X-ray CT investigation	12
The three-dimensional distribution of bordered pits across growth rings of stem segment in Platycladus orientalis (Cupressaceae) seedlings	12
Spatial and temporal patterns of wound periderm development in Cryptomeria japonica bark	12
Paleocene fossil wood from Patagonia with storied rays and comments on the fossil record of this character	10
Development of an automated radial scanning microscopy-based imaging system and its use for measuring resin canal size and frequency in Pinus taeda	9
Effect of drought stress on the formation and lignification of eucalyptus wood cells	9
Latewood intra-annual density fluctuations indicate wet summer conditions and enhanced canopy activity in a Mediterranean ring-porous oak	9
Tree form and anatomical determinants of maximum potential height, with focus on North American conifers	8
Pyotr Kostromitinov’s wood collection from Fort Ross: evidence of the early botanical exploration of northern California	7
Wood and bark anatomy of the charismatic Wisteria vines (Leguminosae)	7
Forestry control in the Brazilian Amazon III: anatomy of wood and charcoal of tree species from sustainable forest management	6
Practical guidelines for quantitative wood anatomy on Ginkgo biloba L.	6
A technique for high-density wood softening in the micro-sectioning process for wood anatomy studies	5
Vessel diameter polymorphism determines vulnerability-to-embolism curve shape	5
Zooming into refractory timber: enhancing anatomical identification with confocal laser scanning microscopy and fluorescence	5
Fossil woods from the Eocene of Corcovado, Argentinean Patagonia: geological setting and conifer diversity	5
Evaluating Carlquist’s Law from a physiological perspective	5
William Louis Stern (1926–2021)	4
Radial growth rate does not affect radial variation of latewood tracheid length in aged trees of Thujopsis dolabrata var. hondae	4
Machine learning-based wood anatomy identification: towards anatomical feature recognition	4

What do we know about the needle xylem structure of the genus Pinus?	4
Evaluation of non-anatomical characteristics for wood identification of six Korean oak species	4
A splinter of charred oleaceous wood from late early Eocene volcanoclastic deposits of Germany	4
Bark anatomy of Pteroceltis tatarinowii, Cannabaceae	4
Cedroxylon shakhtnaense (Blokhina 2010) Dolezych, Mantzouka et L.Kunzmann comb. nov.; A fossil Abies wood from the late early Miocene Mastixioideae flora of Wiesa (east Germany)	3
Emma E. van Nieuwkoop (1933–2022)	3
Characterization of ground parenchyma cells in Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis–Poaceae)	3
Wood structural diversity in fynbos, chaparral, and maquis: a preliminary estimation	3
How Sherwin Carlquist turned long-distance dispersal research into a field of empirical and experimental enquiry	3
Structure of the secondary xylem and development of a cambial variant in Serjania mexicana (Sapindaceae)	3
Differences in xylem and phloem structure in living stumps of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and silver fir (Abies alba Mill.)	3
Longitudinal transmittance of visible and near-infrared light in the wood of 21 conifer species	3
Cross-sectioning to the core of conifers: pith anatomy of living Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae, with comparisons to fossil pith	3
Stem and root anatomy of Zanonia indica L. (Cucurbitaceae) and significant adaptations of the aerial roots	2
Fossil woods from Corcovado (Eocene?), Argentinean Patagonia: angiosperm diversity and biodeterioration	2
‘Paedomorphosis’ and ‘juvenility’ in secondary xylem: (not such) useful constructs?	2
SACHA: an interactive identification key of Southern African CHArcoals for anthracological research	2
Book review	2
Induction of compression wood inhibits development of spiral grain in radiata pine	2
Study of antioxidant enzymes’ activity in reaction wood of poplar tree (Populus alba L.)	2
Wood anatomy of the tribe Diosmeae, a large Cape lineage of Rutaceae	2
Anatomical and blue intensity methods to determine wood density converge in contributing to explain different distributions of three palaeotropical pine species	2
Wood utilized for wooden components in ancient buildings of Tingbao Yang’s former residence	2
Use of wood by indigenous peoples of the Eastern Amazon, Brazil	2
Hydraulic architecture of crown in three Brazilian species	2
Relationship between soil porosity and the apparent density of Astronium fraxinifolium (Anacardiaceae) wood	2
Comparative anatomy vs mechanistic understanding: how to interpret the diameter-vulnerability link	1
Walter Liese (1926–2023)	1
Unveiling the wood anatomy of the overlooked agarwood Aetoxylon sympetalum (Steenis & Domke) Airy Shaw (Thymelaeaceae Juss.)	1
Carlquist’s growth ring classification: a functional approach that reinforces porous and annual rings	1
The vulnerability to drought-induced embolism-conduit diameter link: breaching the anatomy-physiology divide	1
Variations in tension wood characteristics of Populus alba under alternate bending, nitrogen fertilization, and gibberellin treatments	1
Age of heartwood initiation in trunks of young Pinus sylvestris L. trees in the taiga zone	1
The first record of Mammeoxylon lanneoides Lemoigne (Clusiaceae) from Egypt, with a summary of the Egyptian Oligocene wood flora	1
Axial and radial wood maturation in three mistletoe ‘giants’ (Loranthaceae)	1
A diverse assemblage of Miocene Lauraceae in Chalatenango, El Salvador	1
A review of the Hirmeriellaceae (Cheirolepidiaceae) wood	1
The application of chromatography and complementary techniques for wood identification — State of the art and future directions	1
Changes in the intensity of heartwood formation in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) ontogenesis	1
Structure of axial and radial sieve tubes and its functional significance for the phloem network in Aquilaria sinensis (Thymelaeaceae)	1
Book review	1
Neogene Myrtaceae fossil woods from the Ituzaingó Formation, Paraná Basin, northeastern Argentina: Anatomical, systematic and palaeoenvironmental insights	1
Cell-wall fluorescence highlights the phases of xylogenesis	1
Anatomical and topochemical features of the genera Acacia, Acaciella, Senegalia and Vachellia	1
Regeneration of vascular tissue through redifferentiation of interxylary phloem after complete girdling in Aquilaria sinensis	1
Corrigendum to: Longitudinal transmittance of visible and near-infrared light in the wood of 21 conifer species (IAWA Journal 43(4) (2022): 403–412, DOI: 10.1163/22941932-bja10103)	1
The functional significance of tracheids co-occurring with vessels in xylem of Eudicots suggests a role in embolism tolerance	1
The microstructure of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla) with tung oil thermal treatment	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1