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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	15
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	10
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	8
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	8
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	7
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	7
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	6
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	6
Predicting the occurrence of root rot in tree stumps based on harvester data	6
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	6
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	6
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	6
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	5
Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S	5
Could a terminal-based operating model reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in road transport of timber?	5
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	5
Workability and productivity among CTL machine operators – associations with sleep, fitness, and shift work	4
A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	4
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	4
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	4
Editor’s Note	4
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	4
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	4
Smart forestry – a forestry 4.0 approach to intelligent and fully integrated timber harvesting	4
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4

Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	3
Knowledge and technologies for effective wood procurement	3
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	3
Semi-empirical model for timber truck speed profile and fuel consumption	3
Evaluation of changes in soil physical properties 20 years after skidding operations	3
Solution approaches to reduce problems with unbalanced supply and demand in transportation and harvest planning	3
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	3
Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	3
Forestry workers’ perceptions on occupational safety: a comparative study of British Columbia and South Korea	3
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	2
Capacities characterization of wood harvest machine operators’ by cognitive and motor processes	2
Exploring barriers and facilitators to well-being among logging industry workers: a mixed methods study	2
Assessing harvesting productivity and fuel efficiency in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest management in Northern Patagonia	2
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	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 effect of tree and harvester size on productivity and harvester investment decisions	2
Strength analysis of different design solutions of boom extensions for attaching the harvester head to the excavator	2
The state of logging businesses in North and South Carolina in 2022	2
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	2
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	2
Economic viability of the whole tree harvest under conditions of uncertainty: a study in southeastern Brazil	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
A case study of the subjective workload of forest equipment operators in South Carolina	2
Toward a digital twin of forest roads – road weather stations for monitoring road condition and trafficability in Eastern Finland	2
Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review	2
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	2
The effectiveness of a small-scale combination harvester/forwarder in industrial plantation first thinning operations	2
A mobility model for a tethered skidder	2
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	2
Assessing the characteristics and supporting factors that lead to logging machine value loss in the Southeastern United States	2
Forestry professionals’ perspectives on exoskeletons (wearable assistive technology) to improve worker safety and health	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
Manipulating grading strategy for the efficient harvesting of industrial poplar plantations	1
Machine vision based waterlogged area detection for gravel road condition monitoring	1
Harvesters’ productivity prediction in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: development of a model from machine learning	1
The connection between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and forest operations research	1
Comparison of two gamma-ray datasets measured with different methods and assessment of their performance to predict soil properties	1
Forest harvest operations productivity forecasting: a decisions tree approach	1
Evaluation of occupational accidents in forestry in terms of incidence, frequency, and severity rates in Turkey	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 review on cable yarding operation performance and its assessment	1
Accelerated learning for wood supply managers – the next generation of on-line training tools	1
Harvesting fragmented boreal forest: system selection using a simulation-optimization approach	1
Analysis of variables influencing the cost of wood freight: the case of southeastern Brazil	1
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	1
Stabilization through improved drainage using stone mattresses	1
Opportunities and challenges of woody biomass harvesting practices in the Southeastern region of the United States	1
Forest damage and forest supply chains: a literature review and reflections	1
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	1
Ergonomics in CTL harvesting – assisting systems and future visions	1

Influence of log and stack parameters on the conversion factors for Norway Spruce wood stacks using a 3D simulation model	1
Comparison of modeling approaches for evaluation of machine fleets in central Sweden forest operations	1
Global coverage path planner in 2.5 dimensions for nonholonomic vehicles	1
Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	1
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	1
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	1
Integrated in-stand debarking with a harvester in cut-to-length operations – processing and extraction performance assessment	1