OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Forest Engineering is 3. 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
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	5
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	5
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
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