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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Ontogenesis and variation of wood ‘parenchymatization’ in Cochlospermum vitifolium (Bixaceae)	39
Mid-Cretaceous wood of Waihere Bay, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand	33
Influence of previous drought exposure on the 3D microstructure of the cambium and developing xylem in Eucalyptus clones: An X-ray CT investigation	23
Testing Carlquistian hypotheses on the functional significance of vessel element length	18
The three-dimensional distribution of bordered pits across growth rings of stem segment in Platycladus orientalis (Cupressaceae) seedlings	18
Pyotr Kostromitinov’s wood collection from Fort Ross: evidence of the early botanical exploration of northern California	15
Wood and bark anatomy of the charismatic Wisteria vines (Leguminosae)	13
Development of an automated radial scanning microscopy-based imaging system and its use for measuring resin canal size and frequency in Pinus taeda	12
Tree form and anatomical determinants of maximum potential height, with focus on North American conifers	11
Paleocene fossil wood from Patagonia with storied rays and comments on the fossil record of this character	11
Latewood intra-annual density fluctuations indicate wet summer conditions and enhanced canopy activity in a Mediterranean ring-porous oak	11
Practical guidelines for quantitative wood anatomy on Ginkgo biloba L.	10
Zooming into refractory timber: enhancing anatomical identification with confocal laser scanning microscopy and fluorescence	10
Forestry control in the Brazilian Amazon III: anatomy of wood and charcoal of tree species from sustainable forest management	10
Evaluating Carlquist’s Law from a physiological perspective	8
Evaluation of non-anatomical characteristics for wood identification of six Korean oak species	6
A technique for high-density wood softening in the micro-sectioning process for wood anatomy studies	6
Vessel diameter polymorphism determines vulnerability-to-embolism curve shape	6
Radial growth rate does not affect radial variation of latewood tracheid length in aged trees of Thujopsis dolabrata var. hondae	6
How Sherwin Carlquist turned long-distance dispersal research into a field of empirical and experimental enquiry	5
Corrigendum to: Properties of Catalpa bungei (Bignoniaceae) earlywood and latewood in the same growth ring during moisture adsorption/desorption: swelling and shrinkage at the cell level (IAWA Journal	5
What do we know about the needle xylem structure of the genus Pinus?	5
Longitudinal transmittance of visible and near-infrared light in the wood of 21 conifer species	5
Machine learning-based wood anatomy identification: towards anatomical feature recognition	5
Bark anatomy of Pteroceltis tatarinowii, Cannabaceae	5

Cross-sectioning to the core of conifers: pith anatomy of living Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae, with comparisons to fossil pith	5
Differences in xylem and phloem structure in living stumps of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and silver fir (Abies alba Mill.)	5
A splinter of charred oleaceous wood from late early Eocene volcanoclastic deposits of Germany	5
‘Paedomorphosis’ and ‘juvenility’ in secondary xylem: (not such) useful constructs?	4
Fossil woods from Corcovado (Eocene?), Argentinean Patagonia: angiosperm diversity and biodeterioration	4
Anatomical variation of wood between trunks and branches of tropical deciduous and evergreen species	4
Wood structural diversity in fynbos, chaparral, and maquis: a preliminary estimation	4
Study of antioxidant enzymes’ activity in reaction wood of poplar tree (Populus alba L.)	3
Relationship between soil porosity and the apparent density of Astronium fraxinifolium (Anacardiaceae) wood	3
Stem and root anatomy of Zanonia indica L. (Cucurbitaceae) and significant adaptations of the aerial roots	3
Book review	3
Wood utilized for wooden components in ancient buildings of Tingbao Yang’s former residence	3
Hydraulic architecture of crown in three Brazilian species	3
Walter Liese (1926–2023)	2
Comparative anatomy vs mechanistic understanding: how to interpret the diameter-vulnerability link	2
The functional significance of tracheids co-occurring with vessels in xylem of Eudicots suggests a role in embolism tolerance	2
No leaf is an island: The potential of integrating quantitative wood and leaf anatomy	2
Stem and wood anatomy of some members of the Menispermaceae	2
A review of the Hirmeriellaceae (Cheirolepidiaceae) wood	2
Wood anatomy helps solve challenging taxonomic relationships in the tropical Sapotaceae	2
Neogene Myrtaceae fossil woods from the Ituzaingó Formation, Paraná Basin, northeastern Argentina: Anatomical, systematic and palaeoenvironmental insights	2
Age of heartwood initiation in trunks of young Pinus sylvestris L. trees in the taiga zone	2
SACHA: an interactive identification key of Southern African CHArcoals for anthracological research	2
An anatomical approach to investigating Lyctus brunneus feeding behaviour in oak sapwood	2
Acknowledgement of reviewers	2
Unveiling the wood anatomy of the overlooked agarwood Aetoxylon sympetalum (Steenis & Domke) Airy Shaw (Thymelaeaceae Juss.)	2
The first record of Mammeoxylon lanneoides Lemoigne (Clusiaceae) from Egypt, with a summary of the Egyptian Oligocene wood flora	2
Quantitative Wood Anatomy: research applications, opportunities and challenges	1
The application of chromatography and complementary techniques for wood identification — State of the art and future directions	1
Wavy grain in sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) — a structural analysis of xylem and phloem	1
Robustness of a macroscopic computer-vision wood identification model to digital perturbations of test images	1
Anatomy of a fossil liana from the Upper Cretaceous of British Columbia, Canada	1
Cell wall ultrastructure of the lightest wood on earth	1
Carlquist’s growth ring classification: a functional approach that reinforces porous and annual rings	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
Anatomical and isotopic traits in grapevine wood rings record environmental variability	1
The vascular cambium revisited	1
In memoriam Professor Dr. Pieter Baas (1944–2024)	1
Radial variation of wood anatomical characteristics and demarcation of juvenile and mature wood in two slash pine (Pinus elliottii) half-sib families	1
The vulnerability to drought-induced embolism-conduit diameter link: breaching the anatomy-physiology divide	1
Properties of Catalpa bungei (Bignoniaceae) earlywood and latewood in the same growth ring during moisture adsorption/desorption: swelling and shrinkage at the cell level	1
Early response of phloem in naturally regenerated Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) after complete overstorey removal	1
The effect of fire on tree-ring width and tracheid dimensions of Pinus nigra	1
Microstructural properties of Pacific yew as determined with SilviScan	1
Evaluation of xylem maturation and among-site variation in the anatomical characteristics of Betula platyphylla growing naturally in Mongolia	1
Structure of axial and radial sieve tubes and its functional significance for the phloem network in Aquilaria sinensis (Thymelaeaceae)	1