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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	21
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	18
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	15
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	13
Identifying rolling resistance and air resistance simultaneously for an electric truck	11
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	10
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	10
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	8
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	8
Could a terminal-based operating model reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in road transport of timber?	7
Predicting the occurrence of root rot in tree stumps based on harvester data	7
Swedish logging contractors’ use and perceptions of index-linked contracts	6
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	6
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	6
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	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
Editor’s Note	5
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	5
Smart forestry – a forestry 4.0 approach to intelligent and fully integrated timber harvesting	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
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
Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	4

Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	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
Forestry workers’ perceptions on occupational safety: a comparative study of British Columbia and South Korea	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
Factors affecting productivity of harvesters in Acacia plantations: a case study from Indonesia	4
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	3
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	3
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	3
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
Assessing harvesting productivity and fuel efficiency in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest management in Northern Patagonia	3
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	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
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	3