OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Forest Engineering 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	16
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	10
Evaluation of occupational accidents in forestry in terms of incidence, frequency, and severity rates in Turkey	9
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	7
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	7
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	6
A comparative approach of methods to estimate machine productivity in wood cutting	5
Constraints and opportunities in harvesting woody biomass: perspectives of foresters and loggers in the Northeastern United States	5
Assessment of timber faller working conditions in mixed hand and tethered-machine cut harvest units on steep slopes- A case study in western Oregon	5
Estimating the economic value of timber products potentially saved from wildfires by improving forest road standards	5
Automatic detection of root rot and resin in felled Scots pine stems using convolutional neural networks	5
The economic potential of semi-automated tele-extraction of roundwood in Sweden	4
Productivity and costs of sieving logging residue chips	4
Rationalization of coppice management in Mediterranean Europe: the sustainability effects of changing product strategy and technology level	4
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	4
A cost-benefit analysis of pre-sorting using a feller-buncher in underdeveloped short rotation poplar plantations	4
Opportunities and challenges of woody biomass harvesting practices in the Southeastern region of the United States	4
Forest damage and forest supply chains: a literature review and reflections	4
Chipping operations and chip quality from mixed hardwood forests for bioenergy	4
Evaluation of changes in soil physical properties 20 years after skidding operations	3
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	3
Timber harvesting on fragile ground and impacts of uncertainties in the operational costs	3
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	3
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	3
IJFE editor’s note 35(1)	3

Tree marking versus tree selection by harvester operator: are there any differences in the development of thinned Norway spruce forests?	3
Effect of soil moisture on soil compaction during skidding operations in poplar plantation	3
Solution approaches to reduce problems with unbalanced supply and demand in transportation and harvest planning	3
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	3
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	3
Knowledge and technologies for effective wood procurement	3
Comparison of two gamma-ray datasets measured with different methods and assessment of their performance to predict soil properties	2
The effect of bogie track and forwarder design on rut formation in a peatland	2
Pothole detection in the woods: a deep learning approach for forest road surface monitoring with dashcams	2
Determining occupational exposure to inhalable wood dust in motor manual felling and processing	2
Access feature areas within clearcut harvests by region across the southeastern US	2
Comparing single-wheel attachable tracks to chains and bare tires on skidders for mitigating soil disturbance during harvesting operations	2
Use of Bluetooth low energy and ultra-wideband sensor systems to detect people in forest operations danger zones	2
Forest harvest operations productivity forecasting: a decisions tree approach	2
An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	2
Perceptions of and adaptation to changing winter weather by logging business owners in northern Minnesota, USA	2
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	2
Integrated in-stand debarking with a harvester in cut-to-length operations – processing and extraction performance assessment	2
Assessing productivity and cost of timber harvesting during longleaf pine ecosystem restoration	2
A neutrosophic decision-making framework to identify and prioritize limiting factors in wood harvesting	2
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	2
Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	2
Forest roads: regional perspectives from around the world	2
Applications of DEA and SFA in benchmarking studies in forestry: state-of-the-art and future directions	2
The effectiveness of a small-scale combination harvester/forwarder in industrial plantation first thinning operations	2
Stem recovery and harvesting productivity of two different harvesting systems in final felling of Pinus patula	2
Planning methods and decision support systems in vehicle routing problems for timber transportation: a review	1
Exploring determinants of log truck accidents resulting in injury or fatality in the Northwest United States between 2015-2019 using Motor Carrier Management Information System data	1
Log truck crash rates associated with 43-t weight permits in Georgia, USA	1
Harvesting fragmented boreal forest: system selection using a simulation-optimization approach	1
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	1
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	1
Business success factors of Latvian and Swedish forestry contractors	1
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	1
Characterizing cable-logging enterprises in Italy: production, workforce, equipment and potential for growth	1
Coupling a differential global navigation satellite system to a cut-to-length harvester operating system enables precise positioning of harvested trees	1
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	1
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	1
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	1
Factor analysis of the parameters of the ergatic natural-production system of the carting out of timber assortments	1
Capacities characterization of wood harvest machine operators’ by cognitive and motor processes	1
Harvesting wind damaged trees: a study of prediction of windthrow damage in mixed-broadleaf stands via a machine learning model	1
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	1
Designing the mechanized first thinning in a pine stand: assessment of productivity, costs and tree damage	1
A mobility model for a tethered skidder	1
Time consumption models for predicting harvester productivity when selection cutting, thinning from below, and clearcutting Scots pine-dominated stands in Finnish Lapland	1
Bayesian inference of forest road failure frequency depending on rainfall intensity for every prefecture in Japan	1
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	1
Comparison of modeling approaches for evaluation of machine fleets in central Sweden forest operations	1
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	1

Analysis of variables influencing the cost of wood freight: the case of southeastern Brazil	1
Work efficiency and physical workload during the manual debarking of Scotch pine trees	1
Productive assessment and energy balance of a horizontal grinder of forest residues recovered from full tree pine harvesting	1
Tensile forces and deflections on skylines of cable yarders: comparison of measurements with close-to-catenary predictions	1