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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	14
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	11
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	8
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	7
A comparative approach of methods to estimate machine productivity in wood cutting	7
Rationalization of coppice management in Mediterranean Europe: the sustainability effects of changing product strategy and technology level	6
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	6
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	6
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	5
The effect of bogie track and forwarder design on rut formation in a peatland	5
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	5
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	5
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	5
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	5
Editor’s Note	4
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	4
A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	4
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	4
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	4
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	4
Energy absorbing cab guards for log trucks	4
Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S	4
Smart forestry – a forestry 4.0 approach to intelligent and fully integrated timber harvesting	4
Workability and productivity among CTL machine operators – associations with sleep, fitness, and shift work	4
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	4

Spatial relationship between damaged understory and felled trees during the final cutting in a shelterwood forest	3
Evaluation of changes in soil physical properties 20 years after skidding operations	3
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	3
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	3
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	3
Semi-empirical model for timber truck speed profile and fuel consumption	3
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	3
Solution approaches to reduce problems with unbalanced supply and demand in transportation and harvest planning	3
Assessing harvesting productivity and fuel efficiency in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest management in Northern Patagonia	2
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
Assessing the characteristics and supporting factors that lead to logging machine value loss in the Southeastern United States	2
Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	2
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	2
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	2
Application of an Integrated Ergonomic Indicator (IEI) in evaluating forest machines	2
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	2
A mobility model for a tethered skidder	2
The effectiveness of a small-scale combination harvester/forwarder in industrial plantation first thinning operations	2
Knowledge and technologies for effective wood procurement	2
Capacities characterization of wood harvest machine operators’ by cognitive and motor processes	2
The state of logging businesses in North and South Carolina in 2022	2
Economic viability of the whole tree harvest under conditions of uncertainty: a study in southeastern Brazil	2
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	2
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	2
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	2
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	2
The effect of tree and harvester size on productivity and harvester investment decisions	1
Forestry professionals’ perspectives on exoskeletons (wearable assistive technology) to improve worker safety and health	1
Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review	1
Global coverage path planner in 2.5 dimensions for nonholonomic vehicles	1
Comparison of two gamma-ray datasets measured with different methods and assessment of their performance to predict soil properties	1
Comparison of modeling approaches for evaluation of machine fleets in central Sweden forest operations	1
Harvesting fragmented boreal forest: system selection using a simulation-optimization approach	1
Work efficiency and physical workload during the manual debarking of Scotch pine trees	1
Opportunities and challenges of woody biomass harvesting practices in the Southeastern region of the United States	1
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	1
Evaluation of a novel mobile device app for value-maximized bucking by chainsaw	1
Fuel consumption of a high-capacity transport (HCT) vehicle combination for industrial roundwood hauling: a case study of laden timber truck combinations in Finland	1
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	1
The connection between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and forest operations research	1
Harvesters’ productivity prediction in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: development of a model from machine learning	1
Ergonomics in CTL harvesting – assisting systems and future visions	1
Integrated in-stand debarking with a harvester in cut-to-length operations – processing and extraction performance assessment	1
Forest harvest operations productivity forecasting: a decisions tree approach	1
Forest damage and forest supply chains: a literature review and reflections	1
Strength analysis of different design solutions of boom extensions for attaching the harvester head to the excavator	1
A case study of the subjective workload of forest equipment operators in South Carolina	1
Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	1
Machine vision based waterlogged area detection for gravel road condition monitoring	1
A review on cable yarding operation performance and its assessment	1

Analysis of variables influencing the cost of wood freight: the case of southeastern Brazil	1
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	1
An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	1
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	1
Evaluation of occupational accidents in forestry in terms of incidence, frequency, and severity rates in Turkey	1