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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Worldwide trends in methods for harvesting and extracting industrial roundwood	16
Productivity, fuel consumption and cost in whole tree cable yarding: conventional diesel carriage versus electrical energy-recuperating carriage	12
Coupling a differential global navigation satellite system to a cut-to-length harvester operating system enables precise positioning of harvested trees	10
Applications of DEA and SFA in benchmarking studies in forestry: state-of-the-art and future directions	9
A comparative approach of methods to estimate machine productivity in wood cutting	7
Planning methods and decision support systems in vehicle routing problems for timber transportation: a review	7
Wood biomass recovery cost under different harvesting methods and market conditions	6
Fuel consumption of a high-capacity transport (HCT) vehicle combination for industrial roundwood hauling: a case study of laden timber truck combinations in Finland	5
Rubber tracked bogie-axles with supportive rollers – a new undercarriage concept for log extraction on sensitive soils	5
Forest operations instructor and student perspectives on rapid transition from face-to-face to online learning in the US	5
Effect of a traction-assist winch on wheel slippage and machine induced soil disturbance in flat terrain	5
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	5
Effects of boom-corridor thinning on harvester productivity and residual stand structure	5
The effect of tree and harvester size on productivity and harvester investment decisions	4
Remote measuring of the depth of wheel ruts in forest terrain using a drone	4
The effect of bogie track and forwarder design on rut formation in a peatland	4
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4
Skyline tension and dynamic loading for cable yarding comparing conventional single-hitch versus horizontal double-hitch suspension carriages	4
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	4
Physiological workload evaluation by means of heart rate monitoring during motor-manual clearcutting operations	4
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	4
Timber harvesting on fragile ground and impacts of uncertainties in the operational costs	4
Log truck crashes before and after weight limit increases in North Carolina and Virginia, USA	3
Virtual forests: a review on emerging questions in the use and application of 3D data in forestry	3
Machine vision based waterlogged area detection for gravel road condition monitoring	3

Effect of soil moisture on soil compaction during skidding operations in poplar plantation	3
Effectiveness of simulator training compared to machine training for equipment operators in the logging industry	3
Evaluation of a novel mobile device app for value-maximized bucking by chainsaw	3
Productivity and cost of harvesting overgrowth brushwood from roadsides and field edges	3
Depth-to-water maps as predictors of rut severity in fully mechanized harvesting operations	3
Transport management – a Swedish case study of organizational processes and performance	3
A review on cable yarding operation performance and its assessment	3
Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	3
Productivity and profitability of harvesting overgrown roadside verges – a Swedish case study	2
Manipulating grading strategy for the efficient harvesting of industrial poplar plantations	2
The effect of polymer materials on the stabilization of forest road subgrade	2
Economic viability of the whole tree harvest under conditions of uncertainty: a study in southeastern Brazil	2
Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S	2
Designing the mechanized first thinning in a pine stand: assessment of productivity, costs and tree damage	2
Assessing productivity and cost of timber harvesting during longleaf pine ecosystem restoration	2
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	2
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	2
Working conditions and fatigue in log truck drivers within the Japanese forest industry	2
Lime stabilization to improve clay-textured forest soil road subgrades	2
Assessing the characteristics and supporting factors that lead to logging machine value loss in the Southeastern United States	2
Fuel consumption in logging operations in Sweden	2
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	2
An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	2
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	2
Spatial relationship between damaged understory and felled trees during the final cutting in a shelterwood forest	2
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	2
A framework for defining weights of decision makers in group decision-making, using consistency between different multicriteria weighting methods	2
Cost comparison of non-frozen and frozen forest road construction in changing climates	2
The need for flexibility in forest harvesting services – a case study on contractors’ workflow variations	2
Work efficiency and physical workload during the manual debarking of Scotch pine trees	2
Forest roads: regional perspectives from around the world	2
Pothole detection in the woods: a deep learning approach for forest road surface monitoring with dashcams	1
Evaluation of occupational accidents in forestry in terms of incidence, frequency, and severity rates in Turkey	1
A cost-benefit analysis of pre-sorting using a feller-buncher in underdeveloped short rotation poplar plantations	1
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	1
Influence of log and stack parameters on the conversion factors for Norway Spruce wood stacks using a 3D simulation model	1
Comparison of machine learning methods for dry biomass estimation based on green logging residues chips	1
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	1
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	1
Tensile forces and deflections on skylines of cable yarders: comparison of measurements with close-to-catenary predictions	1
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	1
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	1
Constraints and opportunities in harvesting woody biomass: perspectives of foresters and loggers in the Northeastern United States	1
Assessment of timber faller working conditions in mixed hand and tethered-machine cut harvest units on steep slopes- A case study in western Oregon	1
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	1
Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review	1
The role of harvester measurement in the wood supply chain	1
Salvage cable yarding operations productivity of pinewood nematode infected Pinus trees in South Korea	1
Characterizing cable-logging enterprises in Italy: production, workforce, equipment and potential for growth	1
Comparison of modeling approaches for evaluation of machine fleets in central Sweden forest operations	1

Harvesting wind damaged trees: a study of prediction of windthrow damage in mixed-broadleaf stands via a machine learning model	1
Challenging agent-based simulation for forest operations to optimize the European cable yarding and transport supply chain	1
Tree marking versus tree selection by harvester operator: are there any differences in the development of thinned Norway spruce forests?	1
The economic potential of semi-automated tele-extraction of roundwood in Sweden	1
Productivity and costs of sieving logging residue chips	1
Energy absorbing cab guards for log trucks	1
Combined effects of traffic intensity, skid trail slope, skidder type, and soil moisture content on soil degradation in the Hyrcanian forest of Iran	1
The effect of wood species on chainsaw vibrations during bucking operations	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
Integrated in-stand debarking with a harvester in cut-to-length operations – processing and extraction performance assessment	1
Capacities characterization of wood harvest machine operators’ by cognitive and motor processes	1