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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Hand-arm vibration levels in hardwood and softwood cutting with battery-powered and petrol chainsaws	21
Performance of tracked excavators equipped with grapple-saw stacking treetops in poplar plantations	18
Our employees in traditional and environmentally friendly logging: characteristics of forestry workhorses in Hungary	15
Log truck transportation challenges and innovative solutions: evaluating the perspectives of truck drivers, logging business owners, and foresters	13
Identifying rolling resistance and air resistance simultaneously for an electric truck	11
Study of a chassis path planning algorithm for a forest harvester	10
Forest road density in flat and sloping site conditions in Brazil	10
Optimization of forest harvest scheduling at the operational level, considering precedence relationship among harvesting activities	8
How stem size variations in forest stands influence harvester productivity and the use of productivity models	8
Could a terminal-based operating model reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in road transport of timber?	7
Predicting the occurrence of root rot in tree stumps based on harvester data	7
Swedish logging contractors’ use and perceptions of index-linked contracts	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	6
Trucks-to-trucks: a comparison of the raw forest products transportation industry and other forms of commercial trucking in the US South	6
Productivity and cost analysis of cable yarding operations in flat terrain in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland	6
Impacts of posted bridges on log truck routing in Mississippi, USA	6
Editor’s Note	5
Introduction for special issue “COFE-FORMEC 2021 joint meeting”	5
Smart forestry – a forestry 4.0 approach to intelligent and fully integrated timber harvesting	5
Workability and productivity among CTL machine operators – associations with sleep, fitness, and shift work	5
Stacking factor in transporting firewood produced from a mixture of Caatinga biome species in Brazil	5
Log truck insurance premiums, claims, and safety practices among logging businesses in the US South	4
Evaluation of changes in soil physical properties 20 years after skidding operations	4
Teleoperated forwarder with VR: impact of latency on operator log handling performance	4

Dynamic cost allocation in horizontal collaboration – a case study in forest transportation in Québec	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	4
Forestry workers’ perceptions on occupational safety: a comparative study of British Columbia and South Korea	4
A new approach to map-based monitoring of logging-induced changes in soil penetration resistance	4
An optimization model for detailed scheduling of heterogeneous fleet of log trucks considering synchronization	4
Productivity and cost of energy chipping with non-integrated harvesting systems in the Coastal Plain of the US south	4
Factors affecting productivity of harvesters in Acacia plantations: a case study from Indonesia	4
Harvester time consumption in nature conservation management operations	3
New configurations of the tele-extraction concept	3
Rail transport in Swedish wood supply – seasonal variation, system risks and mitigation costs	3
Data-driven strategies for accurate volume-to-biomass conversions	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
Assessing harvesting productivity and fuel efficiency in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest management in Northern Patagonia	3
The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation	3
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	3
Pooling freight capacities to enhance wood supply for a network of sawmills	2
Toward a digital twin of forest roads – road weather stations for monitoring road condition and trafficability in Eastern Finland	2
A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations	2
Global coverage path planner in 2.5 dimensions for nonholonomic vehicles	2
Forest harvest operations productivity forecasting: a decisions tree approach	2
Comparison of two gamma-ray datasets measured with different methods and assessment of their performance to predict soil properties	2
Strength analysis of different design solutions of boom extensions for attaching the harvester head to the excavator	2
A case study of the subjective workload of forest equipment operators in South Carolina	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
Economic analysis of the feller buncher in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: modeling with time series	2
Detailed scheduling of forest harvesting at the operational level incorporating decisions on multiple machine assignment	2
2D-CNN for tree stem detection and segmentation using data collected with a harvester-mounted mobile laser scanner	2
Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: a review	2
Forestry professionals’ perspectives on exoskeletons (wearable assistive technology) to improve worker safety and health	2
The state of logging businesses in North and South Carolina in 2022	2
Forest damage and forest supply chains: a literature review and reflections	2
Opportunities and challenges of woody biomass harvesting practices in the Southeastern region of the United States	2
An assessment of the safety and efficiency of log trucks with increased weight limits on interstate highways in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA	2
Stabilization through improved drainage using stone mattresses	2
Forestry electric vehicle energy routing and mapping GIS tool	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
Accelerated learning for wood supply managers – the next generation of on-line training tools	1
Analysis of variables influencing the cost of wood freight: the case of southeastern Brazil	1
A review on cable yarding operation performance and its assessment	1
Design and experimental optimization of a bio-inspired beak-shaped blade for superior natural rubber tapping performance	1
Tactical-operational optimization framework for forest biomass supply chains: multimodal transport and inventory planning in a Quebec case study	1
Perspectives on the economic sustainability of logging businesses from across the forest supply chain in Virginia	1
Updating the machine rate costing approach for forest harvesting machines in the southeastern United States	1
A framework for defining weights of decision makers in group decision-making, using consistency between different multicriteria weighting methods	1
Planning methods and decision support systems in vehicle routing problems for timber transportation: a review	1
Estimating damaged understory based on collisions with harvested trees during final cutting of a shelterwood	1

Automated terrain roughness assessment using remotely sensed data	1
Mill weight policy prevalence, perceptions, and provisions in Georgia, USA	1
A new model for fuel consumption and route time computations – a case study in the Quebec forest industry	1
Harvesting fragmented boreal forest: system selection using a simulation-optimization approach	1
An evaluation of machine operator exposure to occupational noise during harvesting and extraction operations in Brazilian eucalyptus plantations	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
Finite time sliding mode ADRC for precise angle control of feed rollers in forestry harvesters	1
Assessment of logging costs and technical productivity in the Miombo Woodland Concession, Sofala Province, Mozambique	1
Combined effects of traffic intensity, skid trail slope, skidder type, and soil moisture content on soil degradation in the Hyrcanian forest of Iran	1
Fuel consumption in logging operations in Sweden	1
Bayesian inference of forest road failure frequency depending on rainfall intensity for every prefecture in Japan	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
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
Mapping forest road surface deterioration: detection, localization, and assessing maintenance features with the near-field sensor platform RoadSens	1
The magnitude of the noise level affecting the operator when cutting different tree species with two types of chainsaws	1
Harvesters’ productivity prediction in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations: development of a model from machine learning	1
Forest roads: regional perspectives from around the world	1
Working conditions and fatigue in log truck drivers within the Japanese forest industry	1
Repetitive movements of harvester operators during thinnings in a pine-planted forest	1
A mixed-integer optimization approach to assess timber hauling cost increases under bridge restrictions	1