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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	20
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	17
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	15
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	13
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	10
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	10
Identifying rolling resistance and air resistance simultaneously for an electric truck	9
Predicting the occurrence of root rot in tree stumps based on harvester data	8
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	8
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	7
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	7
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	6
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	6
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	6
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	6
Could a terminal-based operating model reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in road transport of timber?	6
Workability and productivity among CTL machine operators – associations with sleep, fitness, and shift work	5
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	5
Swedish logging contractors’ use and perceptions of index-linked contracts	5
Editor’s Note	5
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	5
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	5
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
Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	4

Solution approaches to reduce problems with unbalanced supply and demand in transportation and harvest planning	4
A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	4
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	4
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	4
Semi-empirical model for timber truck speed profile and fuel consumption	4
Evaluation of changes in soil physical properties 20 years after skidding operations	4
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	4
Exploring barriers and facilitators to well-being among logging industry workers: a mixed methods study	3
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	3
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	3
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	3
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	3
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	3
The state of logging businesses in North and South Carolina in 2022	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
Assessing harvesting productivity and fuel efficiency in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest management in Northern Patagonia	3
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	3
An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	2
Stabilization through improved drainage using stone mattresses	2
Forest damage and forest supply chains: a literature review and reflections	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
Strength analysis of different design solutions of boom extensions for attaching the harvester head to the excavator	2
Global coverage path planner in 2.5 dimensions for nonholonomic vehicles	2
Forest harvest operations productivity forecasting: a decisions tree approach	2
Design and experimental optimization of a bio-inspired beak-shaped blade for superior natural rubber tapping performance	2
A case study of the subjective workload of forest equipment operators in South Carolina	2
Forestry professionals’ perspectives on exoskeletons (wearable assistive technology) to improve worker safety and health	2
Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review	2
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	2
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	2
Comparison of two gamma-ray datasets measured with different methods and assessment of their performance to predict soil properties	2
Toward a digital twin of forest roads – road weather stations for monitoring road condition and trafficability in Eastern Finland	2
Pooling freight capacities to enhance wood supply for a network of sawmills	2
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	2
Opportunities and challenges of woody biomass harvesting practices in the Southeastern region of the United States	2
Constraints and opportunities in harvesting woody biomass: perspectives of foresters and loggers in the Northeastern United States	1
Updating the machine rate costing approach for forest harvesting machines in the southeastern United States	1
A framework for defining weights of decision makers in group decision-making, using consistency between different multicriteria weighting methods	1
Fuel consumption in logging operations in Sweden	1
Forestry electric vehicle energy routing and mapping GIS tool	1
Pre-commercial thinning in small-scale forestry: Operational cost and carbon footprint	1
Bayesian inference of forest road failure frequency depending on rainfall intensity for every prefecture in Japan	1
A new model for fuel consumption and route time computations – a case study in the Quebec forest industry	1
The magnitude of the noise level affecting the operator when cutting different tree species with two types of chainsaws	1
Harvesting fragmented boreal forest: system selection using a simulation-optimization approach	1
Harvesters’ productivity prediction in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: development of a model from machine learning	1
Forest roads: regional perspectives from around the world	1
Assessment of logging costs and technical productivity in the Miombo Woodland Concession, Sofala Province, Mozambique	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

Repetitive movements of harvester operators during thinnings in a pine-planted forest	1
Determining occupational exposure to inhalable wood dust in motor manual felling and processing	1
Estimating damaged understory based on collisions with harvested trees during final cutting of a shelterwood	1
Mill weight policy prevalence, perceptions, and provisions in Georgia, USA	1
Automated terrain roughness assessment using remotely sensed data	1
Ergonomics in CTL harvesting – assisting systems and future visions	1
Comparison of modeling approaches for evaluation of machine fleets in central Sweden forest operations	1
2D-CNN for tree stem detection and segmentation using data collected with a harvester-mounted mobile laser scanner	1
Tactical-operational optimization framework for forest biomass supply chains: multimodal transport and inventory planning in a Quebec case study	1
Working conditions and fatigue in log truck drivers within the Japanese forest industry	1
A mixed-integer optimization approach to assess timber hauling cost increases under bridge restrictions	1
Novel approach for forest road maintenance using smartphone sensor data and deep learning methods	1
Planning methods and decision support systems in vehicle routing problems for timber transportation: a review	1
The connection between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and forest operations research	1
Perspectives on the economic sustainability of logging businesses from across the forest supply chain in Virginia	1
Accelerated learning for wood supply managers – the next generation of on-line training tools	1
The need for flexibility in forest harvesting services – a case study on contractors’ workflow variations	1
A review on cable yarding operation performance and its assessment	1
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	1
Analysis of variables influencing the cost of wood freight: the case of southeastern Brazil	1
The world’s first battery electric timber truck: analysis of the first two years of operation	1