OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Forest Engineering 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	12
A comparative approach of methods to estimate machine productivity in wood cutting	8
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	8
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	8
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	8
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	6
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	6
The effect of bogie track and forwarder design on rut formation in a peatland	6
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	6
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	6
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	5
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	5
Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S	5
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	5
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	5
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4
Smart forestry – a forestry 4.0 approach to intelligent and fully integrated timber harvesting	4
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	4
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	4
Spatial relationship between damaged understory and felled trees during the final cutting in a shelterwood forest	4
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	4
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	4
Energy absorbing cab guards for log trucks	4
Workability and productivity among CTL machine operators – associations with sleep, fitness, and shift work	4
Editor’s Note	4

Semi-empirical model for timber truck speed profile and fuel consumption	3
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	3
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	3
A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	3
Solution approaches to reduce problems with unbalanced supply and demand in transportation and harvest planning	3
Evaluation of changes in soil physical properties 20 years after skidding operations	3
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	3
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	3
Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	3
Exploring barriers and facilitators to well-being among logging industry workers: a mixed methods study	2
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	2
Capacities characterization of wood harvest machine operators’ by cognitive and motor processes	2
A mobility model for a tethered skidder	2
The state of logging businesses in North and South Carolina in 2022	2
The impact of season on heart rate variability and workload of workers in young tree tending operations of a Larix kaempferi (Lamb.) Carr. stand: a preliminary study	2
Evaluation of a novel mobile device app for value-maximized bucking by chainsaw	2
Knowledge and technologies for effective wood procurement	2
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	2
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	2
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	2
Application of an Integrated Ergonomic Indicator (IEI) in evaluating forest machines	2
Assessing the characteristics and supporting factors that lead to logging machine value loss in the Southeastern United States	2
Assessing harvesting productivity and fuel efficiency in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest management in Northern Patagonia	2
Forestry workers’ perceptions on occupational safety: a comparative study of British Columbia and South Korea	2
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	2
The effectiveness of a small-scale combination harvester/forwarder in industrial plantation first thinning operations	2
Economic viability of the whole tree harvest under conditions of uncertainty: a study in southeastern Brazil	2
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	2
A case study of the subjective workload of forest equipment operators in South Carolina	2
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	1
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	1
Forest damage and forest supply chains: a literature review and reflections	1
Opportunities and challenges of woody biomass harvesting practices in the Southeastern region of the United States	1
Forestry professionals’ perspectives on exoskeletons (wearable assistive technology) to improve worker safety and health	1
Comparison of two gamma-ray datasets measured with different methods and assessment of their performance to predict soil properties	1
Ergonomics in CTL harvesting – assisting systems and future visions	1
Machine vision based waterlogged area detection for gravel road condition monitoring	1
An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	1
Work efficiency and physical workload during the manual debarking of Scotch pine trees	1
Harvesting fragmented boreal forest: system selection using a simulation-optimization approach	1
Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	1
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	1
Strength analysis of different design solutions of boom extensions for attaching the harvester head to the excavator	1
Fuel consumption of a high-capacity transport (HCT) vehicle combination for industrial roundwood hauling: a case study of laden timber truck combinations in Finland	1
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	1
Integrated in-stand debarking with a harvester in cut-to-length operations – processing and extraction performance assessment	1
A review on cable yarding operation performance and its assessment	1
Harvesters’ productivity prediction in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: development of a model from machine learning	1
Comparison of modeling approaches for evaluation of machine fleets in central Sweden forest operations	1
Analysis of variables influencing the cost of wood freight: the case of southeastern Brazil	1

Forest harvest operations productivity forecasting: a decisions tree approach	1
Evaluation of occupational accidents in forestry in terms of incidence, frequency, and severity rates in Turkey	1
Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review	1
The effect of tree and harvester size on productivity and harvester investment decisions	1
Global coverage path planner in 2.5 dimensions for nonholonomic vehicles	1
Manipulating grading strategy for the efficient harvesting of industrial poplar plantations	1
The connection between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and forest operations research	1
Accelerated learning for wood supply managers – the next generation of on-line training tools	1