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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Machine vision for field-level wood identification	25
Computer-assisted timber identification based on features extracted from microscopic wood sections	19
DNA barcoding for wood identification: global review of the last decade and future perspective	19
Using the InsideWood web site: Potentials and pitfalls	18
The European charcoal trade	12
Hydraulic function and conduit structure in the xylem of five oak species	12
The impact of natural and artificial weathering on the anatomy of selected tropical hardwoods	11
Pterocarpus wood identification by independent and complementary analysis of DART-TOFMS, microscopic anatomy, and fluorescence spectrometry	10
The XyloPhone: toward democratizing access to high-quality macroscopic imaging for wood and other substrates	10
The cambial response of Scots pine trees to girdling and water stress	9
Links between climate, drought and minimum wood density in conifers	9
Variations in bacterial decay between cell types and between cell wall regions in waterlogged archaeological wood excavated in the intertidal zone	9
Wood anatomy of the neotropical liana lineage Paullinia L. (Sapindaceae)	8
Ray properties in the stems of Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii) and Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi)	7
Forestry control in the Brazilian Amazon I: wood and charcoal anatomy of three endangered species	7
Breathing life into trees: the physiological and biomechanical functions of lenticels	7
Identification of mahogany sliced veneer using handheld near-infrared spectroscopy device and multivariate data analysis	7
Wood identification of charcoal with 3D-reflected light microscopy	6
Cambial phenology in Abies pindrow (Pinaceae) along an altitudinal gradient in northwestern Himalaya	6
A review of the Hirmeriellaceae (Cheirolepidiaceae) wood	6
Development of cambial variant and parenchyma proliferation in Hewittia malabarica (Convolvulaceae) from India and South Africa	6
Heritability and characteristics of resin ducts in Pinus oocarpa stems in Michoacán, Mexico	6
Physiological changes during heartwood formation induced by plant growth regulators in Dalbergia odorifera (Leguminosae)	6
Ultrastructural X-ray scattering studies of tropical and temperate hardwoods used as tonewoods	6
Wood and bark of Buddleja: uniseriate phellem, and systematic and ecological patterns	5

An optimized DNA extraction protocol for wood DNA barcoding of Pterocarpus erinaceus	5
Intra-seasonal trends in phloem traits in Pinus spp. from drought-prone environments	5
Ontogeny of divided vascular cylinders in Serjania: the rise of a novel vascular architecture in Sapindaceae	5
Vessel diameter and vulnerability to drought-induced embolism: within-tissue and across-species patterns and the issue of survivorship bias	5
Comparative culm anatomy of metaxylem vessel pits in three different types of bamboo rhizome	5
The separation of softwood and hardwood in historical wooden statues of the Nazenji-temple in Japan using NIR spectroscopy	5
Cell-wall fluorescence highlights the phases of xylogenesis	5
Structure of the secondary xylem and development of a cambial variant in Serjania mexicana (Sapindaceae)	4
Forestry control in the Brazilian Amazon II: charcoal anatomy of 21 species	4
PEG infiltration: an alternative method to obtain thin sections of cacti tissues	4
Characterization and comparison of the wood anatomical traits of plantation grown Quercus acutissima and Quercus variabilis	4
Tracing the world’s timber: the status of scientific verification technologies for species and origin identification	4
Wood anatomy of 13 species from a successional tropical dry forest: description and ecological implications	4
Forensic identification of CITES Appendix I Cupressaceae using anatomy and mass spectrometry	4
Lignification and cell wall thickening of ray parenchyma cells in Scots pine sapwood	4
Advancing Wood Identification – Anatomical and Molecular Techniques	4
Description and evolution of wood anatomical characters in the ebony wood genus Diospyros and its close relatives (Ebenaceae): a first step towards combatting illegal logging	4
Phloem development, growth markers, and sieve-tube longevity in two Neotropical trees	4
Effect of drought stress on the formation and lignification of eucalyptus wood cells	4
Changes in the intensity of heartwood formation in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) ontogenesis	4
Microanalytical techniques for phenotyping secondary xylem	4
Changes in wood anatomical traits in Scots pine under different climate-change scenarios	4
Wood mechanical properties and their correlation with microstructure in Chinese fir clones	3
Mitigation of cellular collapse during drying of Eucalyptus nitens wood using supercritical CO2 dewatering	3
Simple differential staining method of paraffin-embedded plant sections with safranin-alcian blue	3
Light microscopy of wood using sanded surface instead of slides	3
Wood anatomy of historic French violin bows made of Pernambuco wood	3
Wood anatomy, fire wounds and dendrochronological potential of Prosopis pugionata Burkart (Fabaceae) in arid Argentine Chaco	3
Vessel diameter polymorphism determines vulnerability-to-embolism curve shape	3
Not all lipids in xylem conduits are artefacts. A reply to Yamagishi et al.	3
The vulnerability to drought-induced embolism-conduit diameter link: breaching the anatomy-physiology divide	3
Seasonal changes in the width and structure of non-collapsed phloem affect the assessment of its potential conducting efficiency	2
The functional significance of tracheids co-occurring with vessels in xylem of Eudicots suggests a role in embolism tolerance	2
Characterization of ground parenchyma cells in Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis–Poaceae)	2
Anatomical properties of Hibiscus macrophyllus and its mature wood development	2
Artifactual lipid coatings on intervessel pit membranes in dried xylem tissues of some angiosperms	2
Kräusel’s eight genera for fossil softwoods: types, nomenclature, and taxonomy	2
Wood anatomy of endangered Brazilian tree species	2
Identification of wood species used in particleboard production	2
Imperforate tracheary element classification for studies of xylem structure-function relations	2
Induction of compression wood inhibits development of spiral grain in radiata pine	2
Surviving in semi-arid environments: functional coordination and trade-offs in shrubs from Argentina	2
Wood identification of an ancient Greek coffin from the Bosporan Kingdom	2
Walter Liese (1926–2023)	1
Carlquist’s growth ring classification: a functional approach that reinforces porous and annual rings	1
The microstructure of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla) with tung oil thermal treatment	1
Seasonal temperature and precipitation regimes drive variation in the wood of oak species (Quercus) along a climatic gradient in western Mexico	1
Study of antioxidant enzymes’ activity in reaction wood of poplar tree (Populus alba L.)	1
Structural organization in palm stems of Roystonea regia and Archontophoenix alexandrae	1
Raylessness and paedomorphosis: losses and gains of xylem rays en route from procambium to vascular cambium	1

Axial and radial wood maturation in three mistletoe ‘giants’ (Loranthaceae)	1
Sperry’s packing rule affects the spatial proximity but not clustering of xylem conduits: the case of Fagus sylvatica L.	1
Parenchyma is not the sole site of storage: storage in living fibres	1
New dicotyledonous woods from the San Carlos Formation (Upper Cretaceous) in Northern Mexico	1
Wood anatomy of the tribe Diosmeae, a large Cape lineage of Rutaceae	1
Ecological wood anatomy of Alnus nepalensis (Betulaceae) throughout Nepal	1
Anatomical and topochemical features of the genera Acacia, Acaciella, Senegalia and Vachellia	1
Use of wood by indigenous peoples of the Eastern Amazon, Brazil	1
Pit and pit aperture dimensions in plantation-grown Douglas fir as affected by local growth conditions and height in stem	1
Practical guidelines for quantitative wood anatomy on Ginkgo biloba L.	1
Differences of the stem vascular system across populations of two tropical species under contrasting water conditions	1
A new Cretaceous record of Platanoxylon (Platanaceae): the first Mesozoic angiosperm wood from China	1
Comparative wood anatomy of 15 Malagasy Diospyros species (Ebenaceae)	1
Mosaic, block-face microscopy for measuring cell dimensions, cell collapse, and spatial relationships in wood	1
Carlquist’s indices for vulnerability and mesomorphy of wood: are they relevant today?	1
Quantitative anatomy or macroscopic parameters of compression wood of Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.? Defining the optimal parameters for dendrogeomorphic purposes	1
Study on chemical pattern recognition of Phoebe bournei wood based on gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy	1
A technique for high-density wood softening in the micro-sectioning process for wood anatomy studies	1
Vitality versus cambium, xylem, and phloem characteristics in Cedrus libani	1
Wood and bark anatomy of the charismatic Wisteria vines (Leguminosae)	1
Book review	1