OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IAWA Journal 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Ontogenesis and variation of wood ‘parenchymatization’ in Cochlospermum vitifolium (Bixaceae)	24
Mid-Cretaceous wood of Waihere Bay, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand	21
Testing Carlquistian hypotheses on the functional significance of vessel element length	19
The three-dimensional distribution of bordered pits across growth rings of stem segment in Platycladus orientalis (Cupressaceae) seedlings	15
Variations in bacterial decay between cell types and between cell wall regions in waterlogged archaeological wood excavated in the intertidal zone	14
Influence of previous drought exposure on the 3D microstructure of the cambium and developing xylem in Eucalyptus clones: An X-ray CT investigation	12
Anatomical properties of Hibiscus macrophyllus and its mature wood development	12
Development of an automated radial scanning microscopy-based imaging system and its use for measuring resin canal size and frequency in Pinus taeda	11
Tree form and anatomical determinants of maximum potential height, with focus on North American conifers	10
Effect of drought stress on the formation and lignification of eucalyptus wood cells	9
Wood and bark anatomy of the charismatic Wisteria vines (Leguminosae)	9
Latewood intra-annual density fluctuations indicate wet summer conditions and enhanced canopy activity in a Mediterranean ring-porous oak	9
Paleocene fossil wood from Patagonia with storied rays and comments on the fossil record of this character	7
Pyotr Kostromitinov’s wood collection from Fort Ross: evidence of the early botanical exploration of northern California	7
Practical guidelines for quantitative wood anatomy on Ginkgo biloba L.	6
Spatial and temporal patterns of wound periderm development in Cryptomeria japonica bark	6
Vessel diameter polymorphism determines vulnerability-to-embolism curve shape	6
Zooming into refractory timber: enhancing anatomical identification with confocal laser scanning microscopy and fluorescence	6
Evaluating Carlquist’s Law from a physiological perspective	5
Radial growth rate does not affect radial variation of latewood tracheid length in aged trees of Thujopsis dolabrata var. hondae	5
Forestry control in the Brazilian Amazon III: anatomy of wood and charcoal of tree species from sustainable forest management	5
Bark anatomy of Pteroceltis tatarinowii, Cannabaceae	5
Machine learning-based wood anatomy identification: towards anatomical feature recognition	4
A technique for high-density wood softening in the micro-sectioning process for wood anatomy studies	4
Longitudinal transmittance of visible and near-infrared light in the wood of 21 conifer species	4

William Louis Stern (1926–2021)	4
What do we know about the needle xylem structure of the genus Pinus?	4
A splinter of charred oleaceous wood from late early Eocene volcanoclastic deposits of Germany	4
Evaluation of non-anatomical characteristics for wood identification of six Korean oak species	4
Cedroxylon shakhtnaense (Blokhina 2010) Dolezych, Mantzouka et L.Kunzmann comb. nov.; A fossil Abies wood from the late early Miocene Mastixioideae flora of Wiesa (east Germany)	3
Cross-sectioning to the core of conifers: pith anatomy of living Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae, with comparisons to fossil pith	3
Wood structural diversity in fynbos, chaparral, and maquis: a preliminary estimation	3
Differences in xylem and phloem structure in living stumps of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and silver fir (Abies alba Mill.)	3
Emma E. van Nieuwkoop (1933–2022)	3
How Sherwin Carlquist turned long-distance dispersal research into a field of empirical and experimental enquiry	3
Characterization of ground parenchyma cells in Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis–Poaceae)	3