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

Article	Citations
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	16
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	12
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	10
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	9
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	8
Identifying rolling resistance and air resistance simultaneously for an electric truck	7
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	7
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	7
Could a terminal-based operating model reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in road transport of timber?	6
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	6
Predicting the occurrence of root rot in tree stumps based on harvester data	6
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	6
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	6
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	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	5
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	5
Smart forestry – a forestry 4.0 approach to intelligent and fully integrated timber harvesting	5
Swedish logging contractors’ use and perceptions of index-linked contracts	5
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	5
A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	5
Editor’s Note	5
Workability and productivity among CTL machine operators – associations with sleep, fitness, and shift work	5
Modelling forest road trafficability with satellite-based soil moisture variables	5
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4

Semi-empirical model for timber truck speed profile and fuel consumption	4
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	4
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	4
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	3
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	3
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	3
Economic viability of the whole tree harvest under conditions of uncertainty: a study in southeastern Brazil	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
Forestry workers’ perceptions on occupational safety: a comparative study of British Columbia and South Korea	3
Capacities characterization of wood harvest machine operators’ by cognitive and motor processes	3
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	3
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	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	3
Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions	3
Forest harvest operations productivity forecasting: a decisions tree approach	2
Stabilization through improved drainage using stone mattresses	2
Fuel consumption of a high-capacity transport (HCT) vehicle combination for industrial roundwood hauling: a case study of laden timber truck combinations in Finland	2
Assessing harvesting productivity and fuel efficiency in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest management in Northern Patagonia	2
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	2
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	2
Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review	2
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	2
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	2
A case study of the subjective workload of forest equipment operators in South Carolina	2
The state of logging businesses in North and South Carolina in 2022	2
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	2
Forestry professionals’ perspectives on exoskeletons (wearable assistive technology) to improve worker safety and health	2
Opportunities and challenges of woody biomass harvesting practices in the Southeastern region of the United States	2
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	2
Strength analysis of different design solutions of boom extensions for attaching the harvester head to the excavator	2
A mobility model for a tethered skidder	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
Toward a digital twin of forest roads – road weather stations for monitoring road condition and trafficability in Eastern Finland	2
Forest damage and forest supply chains: a literature review and reflections	2
Evaluation of occupational accidents in forestry in terms of incidence, frequency, and severity rates in Turkey	2
A new model for fuel consumption and route time computations – a case study in the Quebec forest industry	1
Fuel consumption in logging operations in Sweden	1
Automated terrain roughness assessment using remotely sensed data	1
Comparison of modeling approaches for evaluation of machine fleets in central Sweden forest operations	1
The world’s first battery electric timber truck: analysis of the first two years of operation	1
Constraints and opportunities in harvesting woody biomass: perspectives of foresters and loggers in the Northeastern United States	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
Harvesting fragmented boreal forest: system selection using a simulation-optimization approach	1
Global coverage path planner in 2.5 dimensions for nonholonomic vehicles	1
Influence of log and stack parameters on the conversion factors for Norway Spruce wood stacks using a 3D simulation model	1
Effects of boom-corridor thinning on harvester productivity and residual stand structure	1
Estimating damaged understory based on collisions with harvested trees during final cutting of a shelterwood	1

Bayesian inference of forest road failure frequency depending on rainfall intensity for every prefecture in Japan	1
Machine vision based waterlogged area detection for gravel road condition monitoring	1
Determining occupational exposure to inhalable wood dust in motor manual felling and processing	1
Pre-commercial thinning in small-scale forestry: Operational cost and carbon footprint	1
Analysis of variables influencing the cost of wood freight: the case of southeastern Brazil	1
Comparison of two gamma-ray datasets measured with different methods and assessment of their performance to predict soil properties	1
Accelerated learning for wood supply managers – the next generation of on-line training tools	1
Manipulating grading strategy for the efficient harvesting of industrial poplar plantations	1
The need for flexibility in forest harvesting services – a case study on contractors’ workflow variations	1
Novel approach for forest road maintenance using smartphone sensor data and deep learning methods	1
The connection between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and forest operations research	1
Forestry electric vehicle energy routing and mapping GIS tool	1
Forest roads: regional perspectives from around the world	1
Ergonomics in CTL harvesting – assisting systems and future visions	1
Tensile forces and deflections on skylines of cable yarders: comparison of measurements with close-to-catenary predictions	1
An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	1
Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	1
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	1