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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	24
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	19
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	17
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	14
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	14
Energy consumption models for heavy hybrid electric trucks in forest transportation	11
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	11
Identifying rolling resistance and air resistance simultaneously for an electric truck	11
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	8
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	8
Predicting the occurrence of root rot in tree stumps based on harvester data	8
Could a terminal-based operating model reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in road transport of timber?	7
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	7
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	7
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	6
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	6
Swedish logging contractors’ use and perceptions of index-linked contracts	6
Editor’s Note	6
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	6
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
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	5
A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	5
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	5
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	5

Smart forestry – a forestry 4.0 approach to intelligent and fully integrated timber harvesting	5
Semi-empirical model for timber truck speed profile and fuel consumption	5
Evaluation of changes in soil physical properties 20 years after skidding operations	5
Factors affecting productivity of harvesters in Acacia plantations: a case study from Indonesia	4
Solution approaches to reduce problems with unbalanced supply and demand in transportation and harvest planning	4
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	4
A new detailed fuel and travel time estimation model for heavy trucks in forestry	4
Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	4
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	3
Exploring barriers and facilitators to well-being among logging industry workers: a mixed methods study	3
Assessing harvesting productivity and fuel efficiency in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest management in Northern Patagonia	3
The state of logging businesses in North and South Carolina in 2022	3
Forestry workers’ perceptions on occupational safety: a comparative study of British Columbia and South Korea	3
Comparing manual and automated time and tree volume data for estimating harvester productivity in a Pinus taeda stand	3
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	3
Integrating soil, weather, and lightweight deflectometer data for dynamic bearing-capacity estimates on forest roads	3
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	3
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	3
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	3