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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	15
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	8
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	8
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	8
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	7
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	6
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	6
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	6
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	6
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	6
Wood harvesting efficiency analysis of regional forest directorates in Turkey: k-means clustering and data envelopment analysis approach	6
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	5
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	5
Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S	5
Editor’s Note	5
Scheduling of forest harvesting operations on multiple cut blocks using multi-task machines	5
Workability and productivity among CTL machine operators – associations with sleep, fitness, and shift work	4
A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	4
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	4
Effects of traffic intensity and travel speed on forest soil disturbance at different soil moisture conditions	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
Semi-empirical model for timber truck speed profile and fuel consumption	4
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
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	3
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	3
Knowledge and technologies for effective wood procurement	3
Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	3
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	2
The effect of tree and harvester size on productivity and harvester investment decisions	2
A case study of the subjective workload of forest equipment operators in South Carolina	2
Forestry professionals’ perspectives on exoskeletons (wearable assistive technology) to improve worker safety and health	2
Economic viability of the whole tree harvest under conditions of uncertainty: a study in southeastern Brazil	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
Forestry workers’ perceptions on occupational safety: a comparative study of British Columbia and South Korea	2
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	2
Strength analysis of different design solutions of boom extensions for attaching the harvester head to the excavator	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 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
Exploring barriers and facilitators to well-being among logging industry workers: a mixed methods study	2
Capacities characterization of wood harvest machine operators’ by cognitive and motor processes	2
The effectiveness of a small-scale combination harvester/forwarder in industrial plantation first thinning operations	2
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	2
Toward a digital twin of forest roads – road weather stations for monitoring road condition and trafficability in Eastern Finland	2
Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review	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
A mobility model for a tethered skidder	2
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	2
The state of logging businesses in North and South Carolina in 2022	2
Application of an Integrated Ergonomic Indicator (IEI) in evaluating forest machines	2
Evaluation of occupational accidents in forestry in terms of incidence, frequency, and severity rates in Turkey	1
Integrated in-stand debarking with a harvester in cut-to-length operations – processing and extraction performance assessment	1
Machine vision based waterlogged area detection for gravel road condition monitoring	1
Harvesters’ productivity prediction in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: development of a model from machine learning	1
A review on cable yarding operation performance and its assessment	1
Influence of log and stack parameters on the conversion factors for Norway Spruce wood stacks using a 3D simulation model	1
Comparison of two gamma-ray datasets measured with different methods and assessment of their performance to predict soil properties	1
Forest harvest operations productivity forecasting: a decisions tree approach	1
Opportunities and challenges of woody biomass harvesting practices in the Southeastern region of the United States	1
Forest damage and forest supply chains: a literature review and reflections	1
Comparison of modeling approaches for evaluation of machine fleets in central Sweden forest operations	1
Ergonomics in CTL harvesting – assisting systems and future visions	1
Accelerated learning for wood supply managers – the next generation of on-line training tools	1
A new model for fuel consumption and route time computations – a case study in the Quebec forest industry	1
An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	1
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	1
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	1
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	1
Harvesting fragmented boreal forest: system selection using a simulation-optimization approach	1
Analysis of variables influencing the cost of wood freight: the case of southeastern Brazil	1

The connection between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and forest operations research	1
Manipulating grading strategy for the efficient harvesting of industrial poplar plantations	1
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	1
Global coverage path planner in 2.5 dimensions for nonholonomic vehicles	1
Use of vision and sound to classify feller-buncher operational state	1