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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	16
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	11
Identifying rolling resistance and air resistance simultaneously for an electric truck	9
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	8
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	7
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	7
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	7
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	7
Could a terminal-based operating model reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in road transport of timber?	6
Predicting the occurrence of root rot in tree stumps based on harvester data	6
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	6
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	6
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	6
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	6
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	6
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	5
Workability and productivity among CTL machine operators – associations with sleep, fitness, and shift work	5
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	5
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	5
Smart forestry – a forestry 4.0 approach to intelligent and fully integrated timber harvesting	5
Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S	5
Editor’s Note	5
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	5
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	4
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4

A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	4
Evaluation of changes in soil physical properties 20 years after skidding operations	4
Semi-empirical model for timber truck speed profile and fuel consumption	4
Solution approaches to reduce problems with unbalanced supply and demand in transportation and harvest planning	4
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	4
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	4
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	3
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	3
The effectiveness of a small-scale combination harvester/forwarder in industrial plantation first thinning operations	3
Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	3
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	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
Knowledge and technologies for effective wood procurement	3
Capacities characterization of wood harvest machine operators’ by cognitive and motor processes	3