OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hardness and contact angle of thermo-treated poplar plywood for bio-building	26
Modelling natural regeneration of Oak in Saxony, Germany: identifying factors influencing the occurrence and density of regeneration	17
Exploring the reliability of CAN-bus data in assessing forwarder rolling resistance under real working conditions	16
Soil fauna communities and microbial activities response to litter and soil properties under degraded and restored forests of Hyrcania	15
Performance assessment of two plotless sampling methods for density estimation applied to some Alpine forests of northeastern Italy	14
Validation of models using near-infrared spectroscopy to estimate basic density and chemical composition of Eucalyptus wood	14
FIRE-RES Geo-Catch: a mobile application to support reliable fuel mapping at a pan-European scale	13
Long-term dynamics of stand structure and regeneration in high-stocked selection fir-beech forest stand: Croatian Dinarides case study	12
Relationship between microbiological, physical, and chemical attributes of different soil types under Pinus taeda plantations in southern Brazil	12
How environmental factors condition natural regeneration in the altitudinal gradient of a montane rainforest	12
Biomass, radial growth and regeneration capacity of Aleppo pine, and its possible use as rootstock in arid and degraded areas	11
Growth and physiological acclimation to shade in young plants of Adesmia bijuga Phil., a critically endangered species in central Chile	11
Pinus halepensis Mill. in the Mediterranean region: a review of ecological significance, growth patterns, and soil interactions	11
Composted sewage sludge as an alternative substrate for forest seedlings production	10
Forest management with carbon scenarios in the central region of Mexico	10
Towards a functional phytosociology: the functional ecology of woody diagnostic species and their vegetation classes in Northern Italy	10
Universal reaction norms for the sustainable cultivation of hybrid poplar clones under climate change in Italy	10
Trends and driving forces of spring phenology of oak and beech stands in the Western Carpathians from MODIS times series 2000-2021	10
Revealing the physiological basis of forester’s choice of poplar clones (Populus spp.)	9
Scale dependency of the effects of landscape structure and stand age on species richness and aboveground biomass of tropical dry forests	9
Kretzschmaria deusta, a limiting factor for survival and safety of veteran beech trees in Trentino (Alps, Northern Italy)	9
Identification of the ambrosia beetle Anisandrus dispar (Fabricius) (Coleoptera Curculionidae Scolytinae) using TaqMan™ probe assay on biological samples	9
Light availability influences the invasion of Teline monspessulana (L.) K. Koch in a temperate fragmented forest in Central Chile	8
Exploring machine learning modeling approaches for biomass and carbon dioxide weight estimation in Lebanon cedar trees	8
Use of fallen dead trees by Japanese squirrels within cedar plantations in northeastern Japan	8

SilvaCuore: a web-application to monitor the health status of Italian forests	8
Effect of dust accumulation on Quercus cerris L. leaves in the Ezer forest, Lebanon	7
Effect of restoration methods on natural regeneration in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	7
Prospects for evolution in European tree breeding	7
Multiscale characteristics of the early spring temperature and response to climate indices over the past 179 years in the Qinling Mountains	7
Is there an effect of storage depth on the persistence of silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) and rowan (Sorbus aucuparia L.) seeds? A seed burial experiment	6
Exposure elevation and forest structure predict the abundance of saproxylic beetles’ communities in mountain managed beech forests	6
Afforestation monitoring through automatic analysis of 36-years Landsat Best Available Composites	6
Influence of site conditions and land management on Quercus suber L. population dynamics in the southern Iberian Peninsula	6
Effects of mixture and management on growth dynamics and responses to climate of Quercus robur L. in a restored opencast lignite mine	6
Assessing the performance of MODIS and VIIRS active fire products in the monitoring of wildfires: a case study in Turkey	6
A primary evaluation of Syrian forest damage since 2011: a case study of Alhamam and Alboz forest sites	6
Stem profile of red oaks in a bottomland hardwood restoration plantation forest in the Arkansas Delta (USA)	6
Could cattle ranching and soybean cultivation be sustainable? A systematic review and a meta-analysis for the Amazon	6
Effective woody biomass estimation in poplar short-rotation coppices - Populus nigra × P. maximowiczii	5
Assessment of land sensitivity to degradation using MEDALUS model - a case study of Grdelica Gorge and Vranjska Valley (southeastern Serbia)	5
Effects on soil physicochemical properties and seedling growth in mixed high forests caused by cable skidder traffic	5
Factors of soil CO2 emission in boreal forests: evidence from Central Siberia	5
Increasing resistance and resilience of forests, a case study of Great Britain	5
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on microbial activity and nutrient release are sensitive to acid deposition during litter decomposition in a subtropical Cinnamomum camphora forest	5
Extreme climatic events, biotic interactions and species-specific responses drive tree crown defoliation and mortality in Italian forests	5
Effect of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) soil contamination on the development of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus on Fraxinus excelsior and F. angustifolia seedlings	5
Estimating the potential threat of increasing temperature to the forests of Turkey: a focus on two invasive alien insect pests	4
Deploying an early-stage Cyber-Physical System for the implementation of Forestry 4.0 in a New Zealand timber harvesting context	4
Seeing, believing, acting: climate change attitudes and adaptation of Hungarian forest managers	4
Short-term effects in canopy gap area on the recovery of compacted soil caused by forest harvesting in old-growth Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) stands	4
Accumulation of 137Cs and 90Sr radionuclides by dominants and co-dominants of birch-pine forest communities in Northern Ukraine	4
Strong relationships between soil and vegetation in reference ecosystems of a riparian Atlantic rainforest in the upper Doce River watershed, southeastern Brazil	4
Evaluation of urban forest spatial distribution characteristics in Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macao Greater Bay Area	4
Ectomycorrhizal fungal community in mature white poplar plantation	4
Can species Cedrela fissilis Vell. be used in sites contaminated with toxic aluminum and cadmium metals?	4
Problems and solutions to cork oak (Quercus suber L.) regeneration: a review	4
Impact of rotation length of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. on wood production, kraft pulping, and forest value	4
Mapping the vegetation and spatial dynamics of Sinharaja tropical rain forest incorporating NASA’s GEDI spaceborne LiDAR data and multispectral satellite images	4
Contribution of legume and non-legume trees to litter dynamics and C-N-P inputs in a secondary seasonally dry tropical forest	4
Deriving tree growth models from stand models based on the self-thinning rule of Chinese fir plantations	4
Comparative analysis of taper models for Pinus nigra Arn. using terrestrial laser scanner acquired data	3
Amazon forest biomass: intra- and interspecific variability in wood density drive divergences in Brazil’s far north	3
Tree biomass models for the entire production cycle of Quercus suber	3
Impacts of stump harvesting on carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide fluxes	3
Breeding and improvement of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) with a special focus on Hungary: a review	3
Forest therapy in Italy: proposal of a standard procedure for validation of suitable sites	3
Estimating the accuracy of smartphone app-based removal estimates against actual wood-harvesting data from clear cuttings	3
Study on the chemical composition of teak wood extracts in different organic solvents	3
Intra-annual tree growth responds to micrometeorological variability in the central Amazon	3
Use of unmanned aerial vehicles for the diagnosis of parasitic plant infestation at the crown level in Pinus hartwegii	3
Modeling the risk of illegal forest activity and its distribution in the southeastern region of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range, Philippines	3
Quantitative assessment of past and future tropical forest transition and its dynamic to streamflow of the catchment, Malaysia	3
No home-field advantage in upper Andean tropical forests despite strong differences in site environmental characteristics	3
Characterization of technological properties of matá-matá wood (Eschweilera coriacea [DC.] S.A. Mori, E. odora Poepp. [Miers] and E. truncata A.C. Sm.) by Near Infrared Spectroscopy	3

Rewilding beech-dominated temperate forest ecosystems: effects on carbon stocks and biodiversity indicators	3
Changes in tree layer and altitudinal distribution of herbaceous species in temperate old-growth forests over 30 years	3
Wood production and nutritional status of Pinus taeda L. in response to fertilization and liming: a meta-analysis of the Americas	3
Heat treatment of poplar plywood: modifications in physical, mechanical and durability properties	3
Effects of functional traits on the spatial distribution and hyperdominance of tree species in the Cerrado biome	2
Determination of differences in temperature regimes on healthy and bark-beetle colonised spruce trees using a handheld thermal camera	2
Seed germination traits of Pinus heldreichii in two Greek populations and implications for conservation	2
Suitability of Fagus orientalis Lipsky at marginal Fagus sylvatica L. forest sites in Southern Germany	2
The complexity of mycobiota associated with chestnut galls induced by Dryocosmus kuriphilus in Galicia (Northwestern Spain)	2
Climate-wise models of biomass productivity for hybrid poplar clones in Europe	2
Ecological factors affecting the recent Picea abies decline in Slovenia: the importance of bedrock type and forest naturalness	2
Adaptability and interspecific variability in growth and leaf traits of eucalypt	2
Modeling aboveground carbon in flooded forests using synthetic aperture radar data: a case study from a natural reserve in Turkish Thrace	2
Thermo-modified native black poplar (Populus nigra L.) wood as an insulation material	2
Estimation of forest leaf area index using satellite multispectral and synthetic aperture radar data in Iran	2
Development and evaluation of generalized fuel models for predicting fire behaviour in northern European heathlands	2
Pilot-scale drying of southern pine (Pinus spp.) lumber in a heated tube dryer	2
Chitosan exhibits variable effects on pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and alder (Alnus glutinosa L.) growth and secondary metabolism	2
Evaluation of estimation methods for fitting the three-parameter Weibull distribution to European beech forests	2
Corrigendum: The soil-conscious forestry and the forbidden apple	2
Estimation of above-ground biomass using machine learning approaches with InSAR and LiDAR data in tropical peat swamp forest of Brunei Darussalam	2
Key information for forest policy decision-making - Does current reporting on forests and forestry reflect forest discourses?	2
Improving sustainability in wood coating: testing lignin and cellulose nanocrystals as additives to commercial acrylic wood coatings for bio-building	2
A multisource approach helps to detect a forest as a reference site in an intensively used rural landscape (Uckermark, NE Germany)	2
Yield of forests in Ankara Regional Directory of Forestry in Turkey: comparison of regression and artificial neural network models based on statistical and biological behaviors	2
Red wood ants shape epiphytic lichen assemblages in montane silver fir forests	2
Three prescribed fire regimes on the restoration of flooded savannah grasslands under encroachment of Vochysia divergens Pohl, Pantanal, Brazil	1
Forest plantations with public subsidies: to harvest or not to harvest, this is the question	1
Nursery fertilization affected field performance and nutrient resorption of Populus tomentosa Carr. ploidy levels	1
Effect of origin and morphological characteristics of sessile oak (Quercus petraea) seedlings on the development of Cryphonectria parasitica	1
Nursery screening of poplar and willow clones for biofuel application in Ukraine	1
The effects of fire on Pinus sylvestris L. as determined by dendroecological analysis (Sierra de Gredos, Spain)	1
Variability of tolerance of Wild cherry clones to PEG-induced osmotic stress in vitro	1
Bioaccumulation of long-term atmospheric heavy metal pollution within the Carpathian arch: monumental trees and their leaves memoir	1
Variations in the performance of hybrid poplars subjected to the inoculation of a microbial consortium and water restriction	1
Recent insights in soil nutrient cycling: perspectives from Pinus and Eucalyptus forest studies around the world	1
Total tree height predictions via parametric and artificial neural network modeling approaches	1
Using nano-scale Fe0 particles and organic waste to improve the nutritional status of tree seedlings growing in heavy metal-contaminated soil	1
The willingness of inhabitants in medium-sized city and the city’s surroundings settlements to pay for recreation in urban forests in Poland	1
Improving dimensional stability of Populus cathayana wood by suberin monomers with heat treatment	1
Historical fire ecology and its effect on vegetation dynamics of the Lagunas de Montebello National Park, Chiapas, México	1
The patterns of nearest neighbor trees in a temperate forest	1
Temporal patterns control carbon balance in forest and agricultural tropical peatlands in North Selangor, Malaysia	1
Cryptogamic epiphytes and microhabitat diversity on non-native green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh., Oleaceae) in urban habitats	1
Is Pinus pinea growth affected by climate change in western Anatolia?	1
The effect of soil conditions on submountain site suitability for Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.) in Central Europe	1
Potential natural vegetation pattern based on major tree distribution modeling in the western Rif of Morocco	1
Soil of the parent plant and AMF mix improve Cerrado’s seedlings growth in forest nurseries	1
Are Mediterranean forest ecosystems under the threat of invasive species Solanum elaeagnifolium?	1
JRC study on harvested forest area: resolving key misunderstandings	1
Abundance and impact of egg parasitoids on the pine processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) in Bulgaria	1
Comparison of extractive chemical signatures among branch, knot and bark wood fractions from forestry and agroforestry walnut trees (Juglans regia × J. nigra) by NIR spectroscopy and LC-MS analyses	1
Use of brassinosteroids to overcome unfavourable climatic effects on seed germination in Pinus nigra J. F. Arnold	1
The soil-conscious forestry and the forbidden apple	1
Identification and characterization of gaps and roads in the Amazon rainforest with LiDAR data	1
Above ground biomass estimation from UAV high resolution RGB images and LiDAR data in a pine forest in Southern Italy	1
Contrasting resin-tapped and untapped Pinus pinaster Ait. trees of central Spain in a dendroclimatic research	1
Evaluation of methods to improve the direct estimation of standing trees volume	1
Method for the analysis of the relationship between forest cover and streamflow in watersheds	1
Assessing the influence of different Synthetic Aperture Radar parameters and Digital Elevation Model layers combined with optical data on the identification of argan forest in Essaouira region, Morocc	1
How biomass and other tree architectural characteristics relate to the structural complexity of a beech-pine forest	1
Secondary metabolites of six Siberian and Crimean Armillaria species and their in vitro phytotoxicity to pine, larch and poplar	1
A new zoning index for detecting areas of biological importance applied to a temperate forest in Central Mexico	1
The missing part of the past, current, and future distribution model of Quercus ilex L.: the eastern edge	1
Obituary: Ervedo Giordano, silviculturalist and forest ecologist from the Mediterranean, open to the world and to international forestry	1
Evidence of Alectoris chukar (Aves, Galliformes) as seed dispersal and germinating agent for Pistacia khinjuk in Balochistan, Pakistan	1