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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	16
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	11
Identifying rolling resistance and air resistance simultaneously for an electric truck	9
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	8
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	7
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	7
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	7
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	7
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	6
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	6
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	6
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	6
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	6
Could a terminal-based operating model reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in road transport of timber?	6
Predicting the occurrence of root rot in tree stumps based on harvester data	6
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	5
Workability and productivity among CTL machine operators – associations with sleep, fitness, and shift work	5
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	5
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	5
Smart forestry – a forestry 4.0 approach to intelligent and fully integrated timber harvesting	5
Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S	5
Editor’s Note	5
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	5
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4
A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	4

Evaluation of changes in soil physical properties 20 years after skidding operations	4
Semi-empirical model for timber truck speed profile and fuel consumption	4
Solution approaches to reduce problems with unbalanced supply and demand in transportation and harvest planning	4
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	4
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	4
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	4
Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	3
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	3
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	3
Forestry workers’ perceptions on occupational safety: a comparative study of British Columbia and South Korea	3
Knowledge and technologies for effective wood procurement	3
Capacities characterization of wood harvest machine operators’ by cognitive and motor processes	3
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	3
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	3
The effectiveness of a small-scale combination harvester/forwarder in industrial plantation first thinning operations	3
The impact of season on heart rate variability and workload of workers in young tree tending operations of a Larix kaempferi (Lamb.) Carr. stand: a preliminary study	2
Economic viability of the whole tree harvest under conditions of uncertainty: a study in southeastern Brazil	2
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	2
Toward a digital twin of forest roads – road weather stations for monitoring road condition and trafficability in Eastern Finland	2
Strength analysis of different design solutions of boom extensions for attaching the harvester head to the excavator	2
Stabilization through improved drainage using stone mattresses	2
Fuel consumption of a high-capacity transport (HCT) vehicle combination for industrial roundwood hauling: a case study of laden timber truck combinations in Finland	2
Assessing harvesting productivity and fuel efficiency in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest management in Northern Patagonia	2
Exploring barriers and facilitators to well-being among logging industry workers: a mixed methods study	2
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	2
The effect of tree and harvester size on productivity and harvester investment decisions	2
Forestry professionals’ perspectives on exoskeletons (wearable assistive technology) to improve worker safety and health	2
Forest damage and forest supply chains: a literature review and reflections	2
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	2
Assessing the potential opportunity costs of low quality or missing root rot information at mid-fertile Norway spruce sites in Norway when choosing regeneration species	2
The state of logging businesses in North and South Carolina in 2022	2
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	2
A case study of the subjective workload of forest equipment operators in South Carolina	2
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	2
Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review	2
Opportunities and challenges of woody biomass harvesting practices in the Southeastern region of the United States	2
Evaluation of occupational accidents in forestry in terms of incidence, frequency, and severity rates in Turkey	2
A mobility model for a tethered skidder	2
Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	1
Comparison of two gamma-ray datasets measured with different methods and assessment of their performance to predict soil properties	1
Harvesting fragmented boreal forest: system selection using a simulation-optimization approach	1
Effects of boom-corridor thinning on harvester productivity and residual stand structure	1
Fuel consumption in logging operations in Sweden	1
Bayesian inference of forest road failure frequency depending on rainfall intensity for every prefecture in Japan	1
Determining occupational exposure to inhalable wood dust in motor manual felling and processing	1
A review on cable yarding operation performance and its assessment	1
Constraints and opportunities in harvesting woody biomass: perspectives of foresters and loggers in the Northeastern United States	1
Analysis of variables influencing the cost of wood freight: the case of southeastern Brazil	1
Timber harvesting on fragile ground and impacts of uncertainties in the operational costs	1
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	1

An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	1
Forest harvest operations productivity forecasting: a decisions tree approach	1
Accelerated learning for wood supply managers – the next generation of on-line training tools	1
Manipulating grading strategy for the efficient harvesting of industrial poplar plantations	1
Estimating damaged understory based on collisions with harvested trees during final cutting of a shelterwood	1
Tensile forces and deflections on skylines of cable yarders: comparison of measurements with close-to-catenary predictions	1
Forest roads: regional perspectives from around the world	1
Harvesters’ productivity prediction in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: development of a model from machine learning	1
A new model for fuel consumption and route time computations – a case study in the Quebec forest industry	1
Machine vision based waterlogged area detection for gravel road condition monitoring	1
Global coverage path planner in 2.5 dimensions for nonholonomic vehicles	1
Ergonomics in CTL harvesting – assisting systems and future visions	1
The connection between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and forest operations research	1
Forestry electric vehicle energy routing and mapping GIS tool	1
Novel approach for forest road maintenance using smartphone sensor data and deep learning methods	1
Automated terrain roughness assessment using remotely sensed data	1
Comparison of modeling approaches for evaluation of machine fleets in central Sweden forest operations	1
Pre-commercial thinning in small-scale forestry: Operational cost and carbon footprint	1
Integrated in-stand debarking with a harvester in cut-to-length operations – processing and extraction performance assessment	1
Influence of log and stack parameters on the conversion factors for Norway Spruce wood stacks using a 3D simulation model	1
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	1