OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Forest Engineering is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Worldwide trends in methods for harvesting and extracting industrial roundwood	17
Modeling the productivity of mechanized CTL harvesting with statistical machine learning methods	17
Productivity, fuel consumption and cost in whole tree cable yarding: conventional diesel carriage versus electrical energy-recuperating carriage	14
The influence of gross vehicle weight (GVW) and transport distance on timber trucking performance indicators – Discrete event simulation case study in Central Finland	9
Coupling a differential global navigation satellite system to a cut-to-length harvester operating system enables precise positioning of harvested trees	9
Soil impacts and residual stand damage from thinning operations	9
Productivity and cost analysis of tower yarder systems using the Koller 507 and the Valentini 400 in southwest Germany	8
Assessing extraction trail trafficability using harvester CAN-bus data	8
Effect of soil moisture on soil compaction during skidding operations in poplar plantation	7
Monitoring self-reported musculoskeletal symptoms in forestry operations	7
A comparative approach of methods to estimate machine productivity in wood cutting	6
Productivity measurement of New Zealand forest harvesting sector using the DEA-Malmquist index	6
Applications of DEA and SFA in benchmarking studies in forestry: state-of-the-art and future directions	6
Physiological workload evaluation by means of heart rate monitoring during motor-manual clearcutting operations	5
Would weight parity on interstate highways improve safety and efficiency of timber transportation in the US South?	5
Wood biomass recovery cost under different harvesting methods and market conditions	5
Effects of boom-corridor thinning on harvester productivity and residual stand structure	5
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	4
Planning methods and decision support systems in vehicle routing problems for timber transportation: a review	4
Data augmentation using image-to-image translation for detecting forest strip roads based on deep learning	4
The effects of an auxiliary axle on forwarder rut development – a Norwegian field study	4
Skyline tension and dynamic loading for cable yarding comparing conventional single-hitch versus horizontal double-hitch suspension carriages	4
Rubber tracked bogie-axles with supportive rollers – a new undercarriage concept for log extraction on sensitive soils	4
Manipulating grading strategy for the efficient harvesting of industrial poplar plantations	3
Remote measuring of the depth of wheel ruts in forest terrain using a drone	3

Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	3
Timber harvesting on fragile ground and impacts of uncertainties in the operational costs	3
Evaluation of a novel mobile device app for value-maximized bucking by chainsaw	3
Harvester and forwarder productivity and net revenues in patch cutting	3
Fuel consumption of a high-capacity transport (HCT) vehicle combination for industrial roundwood hauling: a case study of laden timber truck combinations in Finland	3
The effect of bogie track and forwarder design on rut formation in a peatland	3
Forest operations instructor and student perspectives on rapid transition from face-to-face to online learning in the US	3
Lime stabilization to improve clay-textured forest soil road subgrades	3
Machine vision based waterlogged area detection for gravel road condition monitoring	3
Effect of a traction-assist winch on wheel slippage and machine induced soil disturbance in flat terrain	3
Efficiency drivers in harvesting operations in mixed Boreal stands: a Norwegian case study	3
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	2
Productivity and costs of sieving logging residue chips	2
Log truck crashes before and after weight limit increases in North Carolina and Virginia, USA	2
Modeling technical, economic and environmental parameters of a forwarder in a Eucalyptus forest	2
Mechanical response of natural anchors in cable logging	2
Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S	2
Cost comparison of non-frozen and frozen forest road construction in changing climates	2
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	2
Application of spiroergometry to determine work metabolism related strain in the course of cable work with a mini forestry crawler	2
Forest roads: regional perspectives from around the world	2
Productivity and profitability of harvesting overgrown roadside verges – a Swedish case study	2
Effectiveness of simulator training compared to machine training for equipment operators in the logging industry	2
Spatial relationship between damaged understory and felled trees during the final cutting in a shelterwood forest	2
The effect of polymer materials on the stabilization of forest road subgrade	2
Assessing the characteristics and supporting factors that lead to logging machine value loss in the Southeastern United States	2
Salvage cable yarding operations productivity of pinewood nematode infected Pinus trees in South Korea	2
Designing the mechanized first thinning in a pine stand: assessment of productivity, costs and tree damage	2
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	2
Assessing productivity and cost of timber harvesting during longleaf pine ecosystem restoration	2
Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	2
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	2
Ensuring consistency between strategic plans and equipment replacement decisions	2
Transport management – a Swedish case study of organizational processes and performance	2
Economic viability of the whole tree harvest under conditions of uncertainty: a study in southeastern Brazil	2
Quality variation in comminuted forest fuels delivered during the winter in north Sweden	2
Productivity and cost of harvesting overgrowth brushwood from roadsides and field edges	2
Work efficiency and physical workload during the manual debarking of Scotch pine trees	2