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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Worldwide trends in methods for harvesting and extracting industrial roundwood	16
Productivity, fuel consumption and cost in whole tree cable yarding: conventional diesel carriage versus electrical energy-recuperating carriage	12
Coupling a differential global navigation satellite system to a cut-to-length harvester operating system enables precise positioning of harvested trees	10
Applications of DEA and SFA in benchmarking studies in forestry: state-of-the-art and future directions	9
Planning methods and decision support systems in vehicle routing problems for timber transportation: a review	7
A comparative approach of methods to estimate machine productivity in wood cutting	7
Wood biomass recovery cost under different harvesting methods and market conditions	6
Forest operations instructor and student perspectives on rapid transition from face-to-face to online learning in the US	5
Effect of a traction-assist winch on wheel slippage and machine induced soil disturbance in flat terrain	5
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	5
Effects of boom-corridor thinning on harvester productivity and residual stand structure	5
Fuel consumption of a high-capacity transport (HCT) vehicle combination for industrial roundwood hauling: a case study of laden timber truck combinations in Finland	5
Rubber tracked bogie-axles with supportive rollers – a new undercarriage concept for log extraction on sensitive soils	5
Physiological workload evaluation by means of heart rate monitoring during motor-manual clearcutting operations	4
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	4
Timber harvesting on fragile ground and impacts of uncertainties in the operational costs	4
The effect of tree and harvester size on productivity and harvester investment decisions	4
Remote measuring of the depth of wheel ruts in forest terrain using a drone	4
The effect of bogie track and forwarder design on rut formation in a peatland	4
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4
Skyline tension and dynamic loading for cable yarding comparing conventional single-hitch versus horizontal double-hitch suspension carriages	4
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	4
Depth-to-water maps as predictors of rut severity in fully mechanized harvesting operations	3
Transport management – a Swedish case study of organizational processes and performance	3
A review on cable yarding operation performance and its assessment	3

Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	3
Log truck crashes before and after weight limit increases in North Carolina and Virginia, USA	3
Virtual forests: a review on emerging questions in the use and application of 3D data in forestry	3
Machine vision based waterlogged area detection for gravel road condition monitoring	3
Effect of soil moisture on soil compaction during skidding operations in poplar plantation	3
Effectiveness of simulator training compared to machine training for equipment operators in the logging industry	3
Evaluation of a novel mobile device app for value-maximized bucking by chainsaw	3
Productivity and cost of harvesting overgrowth brushwood from roadsides and field edges	3
Fuel consumption in logging operations in Sweden	2
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	2
An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	2
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	2
Spatial relationship between damaged understory and felled trees during the final cutting in a shelterwood forest	2
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	2
A framework for defining weights of decision makers in group decision-making, using consistency between different multicriteria weighting methods	2
Cost comparison of non-frozen and frozen forest road construction in changing climates	2
The need for flexibility in forest harvesting services – a case study on contractors’ workflow variations	2
Work efficiency and physical workload during the manual debarking of Scotch pine trees	2
Forest roads: regional perspectives from around the world	2
Productivity and profitability of harvesting overgrown roadside verges – a Swedish case study	2
Manipulating grading strategy for the efficient harvesting of industrial poplar plantations	2
The effect of polymer materials on the stabilization of forest road subgrade	2
Economic viability of the whole tree harvest under conditions of uncertainty: a study in southeastern Brazil	2
Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S	2
Designing the mechanized first thinning in a pine stand: assessment of productivity, costs and tree damage	2
Assessing productivity and cost of timber harvesting during longleaf pine ecosystem restoration	2
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	2
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	2
Working conditions and fatigue in log truck drivers within the Japanese forest industry	2
Lime stabilization to improve clay-textured forest soil road subgrades	2
Assessing the characteristics and supporting factors that lead to logging machine value loss in the Southeastern United States	2