OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Forest Research is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing landscape partitioning approaches to protect wildlife habitat in managed forests	53
Evaluating the use of Ca/Sr and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios to track Ca sources in sugar maple in Ontario	32
Contextualizing recent increases in Canadian boreal wildfire activity: decadal burn rates still within historical variability of the two past centuries	29
Effects of overstory tree density, site preparation, and ground vegetation on natural Scots pine seedling emergence and survival in northern boreal pine forests	23
The Impact of Rural Labor Migration on Forestry Input Allocation: Evidence from Guizhou Province, China	20
Predicting distribution overlaps between Dendroctonus adjunctus Blandford 1897 and six Pinus species in Mexico under global climate change	20
Cumulative effects of biomass harvesting and herbicide application on litter-dwelling arthropod communities in jack pine-dominated forests: 7th year postharvest assessment	19
Hydrological and nutrient regulation per occupation unit differ between structurally contrasting native and planted forests in the Northern Andes	19
Rodent-mediated seed limitation affects woody seedling establishment more than invasive shrubs and downed woody debris	17
Correction: Recovery rates of white spruce and balsam fir on seismic lines in NW Alberta, Canada	16
Early stages of decay in Eucalyptus grandis trees inoculated with brown-rot fungi	15
Diversity, phytosociological aspects, and indicator species of natural forests in Paraguay	15
Effects of cutting speed and feed per knife on energy requirements for processing black spruce logs with a chipper-canter	14
Correction: A data compilation and synthesis of the impacts of seismic surveys on surface soil properties in boreal Alberta, Canada	14
Do Azospirillum brasiliense and Chlorella sp. microalgae benefit the production of Hymenaea courbaril L. seedlings?	13
Long-term (17-year) dynamics of herbaceous plant communities after shelterwood regeneration harvests in southern Appalachian cove- and upland hardwood forests	12
Excluding deer browse increases stump sprouting success and height growth following regeneration harvests	12
Impact of single and combined soil amendments on the growth and foliar nutrients of white spruce (Picea glauca) on a poorly regenerated logged site	11
Six year efficacy of silvicultural treatments to control American beech regeneration in stands affected by beech bark disease in Ontario, Canada	11
Age structure of saplings in canopy openings of mature longleaf pine woodlands	11
Multiyear defoliations in southern New England increases oak mortality	11
Variable synchrony in insect outbreak cycling across a forest landscape gradient: multi-scale evidence from trembling aspen in Alberta	11
Effects of different planting configurations and clones on biomass and carbon storage of a 12-year-old poplar ecosystem in southern China	11
Can’t see the flowers for the trees: factors driving floral abundance within early-successional forests in the central Appalachian Mountains	11
Linking burn severity to pre-fire forest structure and weather on the Dixie fire offers potential to map prospective burn severity	11

Defoliation level interacts with tree species and soil richness to determine volume increment reduction and recovery from simulated spruce budworm attack	10
Citizen beliefs concerning wood as a construction material under extreme weather events	10
Effect of tillage on soil mechanical parameters, fine root growth, and productivity of young Pinus taeda plantations	10
Enhanced forest inventories in Canada: implementation, status, and research needs	10
Seed coatings containing capsaicin reduce seed removal in temperate woody species	10
On the characterization of patterning in spruce budworm time-series data	10
Effects of Ganoderma lucidum cultivation in forests on soil organic carbon pool and microbial community physiological profiles	9
Sugar maple seedling regeneration of a natural cohort across a latitudinal gradient in New Hampshire	9
Mapping old-growth forests using airborne lidar data and satellite images: how do plot size and rarity affect accuracy?	9
Synchronized movement between US lumber futures and southern pine sawtimber prices and COVID-19 impacts	8
Optimal allocation model of forest fire detection towers in protected areas based on fire occurrence risk: Where and how to act?	8
Global value chain participation, trade cost and benefits of timber industry	8
A comparison of fast-growing maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton.) plantations with native broadleaved vegetation for greenhouse gas balances	8
Multiple responses of fine root resource uptake strategies to gravel content in a subtropical plantation	8
Effects of artificial nitrogen deposition on the forest floor and soil chemistry in chestnut-leaved oak (Quercus castaneifolia) plantation in northern Iran	8
Fuzzy logic applied in the prospecting of suitable areas for the establishment of commercial forest plantations	8
Radial variation of wood anatomical and chemical properties in eight poplar clones	8
Modelling diameter at breast height distribution of jack pine and black spruce natural stands in eastern Canada	8
How consistent are citizen science data sources, an exploratory study using free automated image recognition apps for woody plant identification	8
Effect of 3-year amendment measures on coastal saline–alkali soil conditions during the growing season	8
Melampsora larici-populina homologous effectors Mlp72983 and Mlp52166 display cell-type specific accumulation in Arabidopsis and Populus	8
Invasive alien species in protected areas: the dynamics of Pinus taeda at Rio Canoas State Park – Brazil	8
Effects of numbers of observations and predictors for various model types on the performance of forest inventory with airborne laser scanning	7
Fungal community dynamics in coarse woody debris across decay stage, tree species, and stand development stage in northern boreal forests	7
Economics of strip harvesting in drained boreal peatland forests	7
Mexican mixed-species forest shows resilience to high-intensity fire	7
Wood energy quality of Eucalyptus spp. clones established under different soil types in the Brazilian Cerrado	7
The rapid expansion of Populus tremuloides due to anthropogenic disturbances in eastern Canada	7
Forest restoration mitigates drought vulnerability of coast Douglas-fir in a Mediterranean climate	7
Fire regime changes in Canada: an update	7
Correction: Integrating the effects of climate change into long-term strategic forest management planning using a process-based stand model	7
Evaluation of mobile laser scanning acquisition scenarios for automated wood volume estimation in a temperate hardwood forest using quantitative structural models	7
Tree and stand characteristics associated with the occurrence of false heartwood in individual Japanese white birch trees	7
Modeling the distribution of hemlock woolly adelgid under several climate change scenarios	7
Effects of interspecific competition on early growth of genetically improved white spruce in mixedwood stands in northeastern Alberta	7
Radial growth responses of post oak (Quercus stellata) to climate variability and management in southeastern Oklahoma, USA	7
Residual canopy cover provides buffering of near-surface temperatures, but benefits are limited under extreme conditions	7
Long-term effects of herbivory on tree growth are not consistent with browsing preferences	7
Development of tree recruitment models for 10 species groups in the sugar maple-dominated mixed forests of eastern Canada	7
The vulnerability of Canadian forest-dependent communities to climate change: an indicator-based approach	7
A decision support tool for forwarding operations with sequence-dependent loading	7
Which factors influence consumers’ selection of wood as a building material for houses?	7
Aboveground carbon stock of scarified black spruce stands—a 20-year study in boreal ecosystems	7
Radial growth decline of white spruce (Picea glauca) during hot summers without drought: preliminary results from a study site south of a boreal forest border	6
Biomass accumulation in trees and downed wood in northern hardwood forests: Repeated measures of a successional chronosequence in New Hampshire, USA	6
Estimation of periodic annual increment of tree ring widths by airborne laser scanning	6
Comparing outbreak regimes of western spruce budworm at low- and high-elevation sites in Idaho using dendrochronology	6
CO₂ flux from Acer saccharum logs: sources of variation and the influence of silvicultural treatments	6
Response of moose to forest harvest and management: a literature review	6
Building a high-resolution site index map using boosted regression trees: the Norwegian case	6

Optimized locations of landings in forest operations	6
Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America	6
Effects of tree stump treatments for reducing Armillaria root disease within conifer plantations in southeastern British Columbia	6
Physical and mechanical properties affecting the suitability of black ash wood for W8banaki basketry	6
Documenting forest juvenilization in high-elevation old-growth forests in southern inland British Columbia, with implications for the winter ecology of Canada’s endangered Deep-Snow Caribou	6
A correction for serial nonindependence in mountain pine beetle aerial survey data to reduce overestimation of cumulative damage	6
Collection: Changing wildfire regimes, their impacts, and the path forward	6
α-Pinene concentrations in bark tissue affect intra-specific variation in the susceptibility to vole gnawing of Japanese larch	6
Cross-site comparison of ecosystem nutrient cycling in hardwood and conifer forests on contrasting soil	6
Complex network analysis of global forest products trade pattern	6
Understanding the diversity of objectives among women forest owners in Finland	6
Species diversity assessment and aboveground biomass estimation of mangroves using remote sensing and field observations	6
Modeling knot geometry from scanned images of Korean pine plantations	6
Freeze–thaw events differently affect survival of seeds of two native and two invasive woody species	6
The dynamics of a changing Lutz spruce (Picea × lutzii) hybrid zone on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska	6
Light patterns align with successful Quercus and Carya regeneration but reveal continued challenges in managing dry-mesic southern Appalachian upland hardwood forests	6
Peat surface compression reduces smouldering fire potential as a novel fuel treatment for boreal peatlands	6
New perspectives on radial profiles of specific gravity in North American conifers	6
Spruce budworm defoliation patterns during outbreak rise are influenced by tree species, insecticide spraying, and spatial autocorrelation	6
Designing circular fixed-area plots in large-scale forest inventories: effect of horizontal distance measurement uncertainty and tree position pattern	6
Allometric options for predicting tropical tree height and crown area from stem diameter in Central Africa	5
Modeling stand fire probabilities with unobserved heterogeneity. Estimating stand age and climate change effects in Chilean radiata pine plantations	5
Soil savvy: how stable isotopes are shaping forest ecosystem management	5
A quantitative approach to defining soil nutrient regimes within ecosystem classifications for Northwestern Ontario	5
Additional biomass estimation alternatives: nonlinear two- and three-stage least squares and full information maximum likelihood for slash pine	5
Subalpine fir microsatellite variation reveals the complex relationship between var. lasiocarpa and var. bifolia	5
Identifying (less) vulnerable forest structures to storms in different conifer-dominated European forest landscapes by simple spaceborne proxies	5
Models to predict whole-disk specific gravity and moisture content in planted longleaf pine from cutover and old field sites	5
Impact of the lunar nodal cycle on subalpine tree growth in the North American Cordillera	5
Deriving a tree growth model from any existing stand growth model	5
Cutting through market trends: the impact of macroeconomy, COVID-19 pandemic, and climate-related disasters costs on wood product prices in North America	5
Arbuscular mycorrhizae alleviate water deficit in Dipteryx alata Vogel: seedling quality and resilience	5
Approximating covariances between nested plot sizes in forest inventory	5
Can climate variability and landscape position predict white pine blister rust incidence, mortality due to the disease, and regeneration in whitebark pine?	5
The role of uncertain forest data in a hierarchical forest planning setting with misaligned objectives	5
Genotype and environment interaction on the wood quality of Eucalyptus spp. for energy purposes	5
Correction: Challenges and opportunities for the operationalization of forest-assisted migration in Canada	5
Ligustrum lucidum invasion decreases abundance and relative contribution of soil fauna to litter decomposition but increases decomposition rate in a subtropical montane forest of northwestern A	5
Long-term stability of northern hardwoods across a topographic gradient and variations in harvest methods	5
Influence of aerially seeded Pinus massoniana plantations on soil quality in severely eroded and degraded land of subtropical China	5
Exploring recruitment dynamics of sugar maple and yellow birch saplings into merchantable stems following harvesting in the Acadian Forest Region of New Brunswick, Canada	5
Monitoring seedling stands using national forest inventory and multispectral airborne laser scanning data	5
Responses of needle terpene concentrations and characteristics of resin canals to different warming treatments in Scots pine and Norway spruce seedlings grown in a field experiment	5
Efficacy of prescribed fire as a fuel reduction treatment in the Colorado Front Range	5
Small area estimation of growing stock timber volume, basal area, mean stem diameter, and stem density for mountain forests in Austria	5
Thinning to meet sawlog objectives at shorter rotation in lodgepole pine stands	5
Economic impacts of climate change on forests: a PICUS–LANDIS–CGE modeling approach	5
Aggregated retention protects trees against wind, but not against disease: a long-term study in mixed forests	5
Seasonal bird communities in Shelterwood harvests and unmanaged mature forest	5
The influence of forestland tenure security on rural labor migration —Further discussion based on migration location	5
Spread of Heterobasidion genotypes in Norway spruce stands on drained peat soil in Latvia	5
Correction: Precommercial thinning increased diameter growth while maintaining mixedwood stands composition, 15 years after treatment	5
Populus deltoides is suitable for moist and short-term flooded soil conditions on the basis of its relative growth rate and stoichiometry	5