OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the reliability of CAN-bus data in assessing forwarder rolling resistance under real working conditions	28
Modelling natural regeneration of Oak in Saxony, Germany: identifying factors influencing the occurrence and density of regeneration	19
Soil fauna communities and microbial activities response to litter and soil properties under degraded and restored forests of Hyrcania	17
How environmental factors condition natural regeneration in the altitudinal gradient of a montane rainforest	17
FIRE-RES Geo-Catch: a mobile application to support reliable fuel mapping at a pan-European scale	17
Relationship between microbiological, physical, and chemical attributes of different soil types under Pinus taeda plantations in southern Brazil	16
Into the wild? Preferences of frequent mountain and forest recreationists for accessibility and mobility	15
Validation of models using near-infrared spectroscopy to estimate basic density and chemical composition of Eucalyptus wood	13
Performance assessment of two plotless sampling methods for density estimation applied to some Alpine forests of northeastern Italy	13
Composted sewage sludge as an alternative substrate for forest seedlings production	12
Trends and driving forces of spring phenology of oak and beech stands in the Western Carpathians from MODIS times series 2000-2021	12
SISEF and Italian forest science: thirty years of shared progress	12
Towards a functional phytosociology: the functional ecology of woody diagnostic species and their vegetation classes in Northern Italy	12
Biomass, radial growth and regeneration capacity of Aleppo pine, and its possible use as rootstock in arid and degraded areas	11
Hearing nature’s heartbeat: towards large-scale real-time forest monitoring network in Italy	11
Universal reaction norms for the sustainable cultivation of hybrid poplar clones under climate change in Italy	11
Pinus halepensis Mill. in the Mediterranean region: a review of ecological significance, growth patterns, and soil interactions	11
Forest management with carbon scenarios in the central region of Mexico	10
Kretzschmaria deusta, a limiting factor for survival and safety of veteran beech trees in Trentino (Alps, Northern Italy)	10
Identification of the ambrosia beetle Anisandrus dispar (Fabricius) (Coleoptera Curculionidae Scolytinae) using TaqMan™ probe assay on biological samples	10
Improving the harvester functionality by optimizing the manipulator kinematic scheme	9
Use of fallen dead trees by Japanese squirrels within cedar plantations in northeastern Japan	9
Revealing the physiological basis of forester’s choice of poplar clones (Populus spp.)	9
Multiscale characteristics of the early spring temperature and response to climate indices over the past 179 years in the Qinling Mountains	9
Scale dependency of the effects of landscape structure and stand age on species richness and aboveground biomass of tropical dry forests	9

Afforestation monitoring through automatic analysis of 36-years Landsat Best Available Composites	8
Effect of dust accumulation on Quercus cerris L. leaves in the Ezer forest, Lebanon	8
Light availability influences the invasion of Teline monspessulana (L.) K. Koch in a temperate fragmented forest in Central Chile	7
Effect of restoration methods on natural regeneration in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	7
SilvaCuore: a web-application to monitor the health status of Italian forests	7
Effective woody biomass estimation in poplar short-rotation coppices - Populus nigra × P. maximowiczii	6
Exploring machine learning modeling approaches for biomass and carbon dioxide weight estimation in Lebanon cedar trees	6
Influence of site conditions and land management on Quercus suber L. population dynamics in the southern Iberian Peninsula	6
Kinetic, morphophysiological, and biochemical parameters as a strategy to select clones of Eucalyptus spp. more efficient in phosphorus uptake	6
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on microbial activity and nutrient release are sensitive to acid deposition during litter decomposition in a subtropical Cinnamomum camphora forest	6
Exposure elevation and forest structure predict the abundance of saproxylic beetles’ communities in mountain managed beech forests	6
Prospects for evolution in European tree breeding	6
Effects of mixture and management on growth dynamics and responses to climate of Quercus robur L. in a restored opencast lignite mine	6
Increasing resistance and resilience of forests, a case study of Great Britain	6
A primary evaluation of Syrian forest damage since 2011: a case study of Alhamam and Alboz forest sites	6
Assessing the performance of MODIS and VIIRS active fire products in the monitoring of wildfires: a case study in Turkey	6
Stem profile of red oaks in a bottomland hardwood restoration plantation forest in the Arkansas Delta (USA)	6
Assessment of land sensitivity to degradation using MEDALUS model - a case study of Grdelica Gorge and Vranjska Valley (southeastern Serbia)	6
Effects on soil physicochemical properties and seedling growth in mixed high forests caused by cable skidder traffic	5
Extreme climatic events, biotic interactions and species-specific responses drive tree crown defoliation and mortality in Italian forests	5
Problems and solutions to cork oak (Quercus suber L.) regeneration: a review	5
Effect of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) soil contamination on the development of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus on Fraxinus excelsior and F. angustifolia seedlings	5
Factors of soil CO2 emission in boreal forests: evidence from Central Siberia	5
Deploying an early-stage Cyber-Physical System for the implementation of Forestry 4.0 in a New Zealand timber harvesting context	4
Impact of rotation length of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. on wood production, kraft pulping, and forest value	4
Deriving tree growth models from stand models based on the self-thinning rule of Chinese fir plantations	4
Ectomycorrhizal fungal community in mature white poplar plantation	4
Strong relationships between soil and vegetation in reference ecosystems of a riparian Atlantic rainforest in the upper Doce River watershed, southeastern Brazil	4
Contribution of legume and non-legume trees to litter dynamics and C-N-P inputs in a secondary seasonally dry tropical forest	4
Mapping the vegetation and spatial dynamics of Sinharaja tropical rain forest incorporating NASA’s GEDI spaceborne LiDAR data and multispectral satellite images	4
Seeing, believing, acting: climate change attitudes and adaptation of Hungarian forest managers	4
Accumulation of 137Cs and 90Sr radionuclides by dominants and co-dominants of birch-pine forest communities in Northern Ukraine	4
Estimating the potential threat of increasing temperature to the forests of Turkey: a focus on two invasive alien insect pests	4
Evaluation of urban forest spatial distribution characteristics in Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macao Greater Bay Area	4
Ecological factors affecting the recent Picea abies decline in Slovenia: the importance of bedrock type and forest naturalness	3
Adaptability and interspecific variability in growth and leaf traits of eucalypt	3
Wood production and nutritional status of Pinus taeda L. in response to fertilization and liming: a meta-analysis of the Americas	3
Can species Cedrela fissilis Vell. be used in sites contaminated with toxic aluminum and cadmium metals?	3
Heat treatment of poplar plywood: modifications in physical, mechanical and durability properties	3
Corrigendum: The soil-conscious forestry and the forbidden apple	3
Tree biomass models for the entire production cycle of Quercus suber	3
Modeling aboveground carbon in flooded forests using synthetic aperture radar data: a case study from a natural reserve in Turkish Thrace	3
Seed germination traits of Pinus heldreichii in two Greek populations and implications for conservation	3
Forest therapy in Italy: proposal of a standard procedure for validation of suitable sites	3
Modeling the risk of illegal forest activity and its distribution in the southeastern region of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range, Philippines	3
Changes in Populus sp. wood subjected to heat treatment: anatomy and silica content	3
No home-field advantage in upper Andean tropical forests despite strong differences in site environmental characteristics	3
Amazon forest biomass: intra- and interspecific variability in wood density drive divergences in Brazil’s far north	3
Rewilding beech-dominated temperate forest ecosystems: effects on carbon stocks and biodiversity indicators	3
Effects of functional traits on the spatial distribution and hyperdominance of tree species in the Cerrado biome	3

Impacts of stump harvesting on carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide fluxes	3
Estimating the accuracy of smartphone app-based removal estimates against actual wood-harvesting data from clear cuttings	3
Quantitative assessment of past and future tropical forest transition and its dynamic to streamflow of the catchment, Malaysia	3
Breeding and improvement of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) with a special focus on Hungary: a review	3
Comparative analysis of taper models for Pinus nigra Arn. using terrestrial laser scanner acquired data	3
Characterization of technological properties of matá-matá wood (Eschweilera coriacea [DC.] S.A. Mori, E. odora Poepp. [Miers] and E. truncata A.C. Sm.) by Near Infrared Spectroscopy	3
Development and evaluation of generalized fuel models for predicting fire behaviour in northern European heathlands	2
Improving sustainability in wood coating: testing lignin and cellulose nanocrystals as additives to commercial acrylic wood coatings for bio-building	2
Assessing the influence of different Synthetic Aperture Radar parameters and Digital Elevation Model layers combined with optical data on the identification of argan forest in Essaouira region, Morocc	2
Use of unmanned aerial vehicles for the diagnosis of parasitic plant infestation at the crown level in Pinus hartwegii	2
Above ground biomass estimation from UAV high resolution RGB images and LiDAR data in a pine forest in Southern Italy	2
Red wood ants shape epiphytic lichen assemblages in montane silver fir forests	2
Comparison of extractive chemical signatures among branch, knot and bark wood fractions from forestry and agroforestry walnut trees (Juglans regia × J. nigra) by NIR spectroscopy and LC-MS analyses	2
Applying complex network metrics to individual-tree diameter growth modeling	2
The patterns of nearest neighbor trees in a temperate forest	2
Identification and characterization of gaps and roads in the Amazon rainforest with LiDAR data	2
Soil of the parent plant and AMF mix improve Cerrado’s seedlings growth in forest nurseries	2
Evaluation of methods to improve the direct estimation of standing trees volume	2
Seasonal change in soil nitrogen mineralization in young Chamaecyparis obtusa stands at the upper and lower positions on a slope in central Japan	2
Pilot-scale drying of southern pine (Pinus spp.) lumber in a heated tube dryer	2
Yield of forests in Ankara Regional Directory of Forestry in Turkey: comparison of regression and artificial neural network models based on statistical and biological behaviors	2
Nursery fertilization affected field performance and nutrient resorption of Populus tomentosa Carr. ploidy levels	2
Chitosan exhibits variable effects on pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and alder (Alnus glutinosa L.) growth and secondary metabolism	2
Historical fire ecology and its effect on vegetation dynamics of the Lagunas de Montebello National Park, Chiapas, México	2
Key information for forest policy decision-making - Does current reporting on forests and forestry reflect forest discourses?	2
Changes in tree layer and altitudinal distribution of herbaceous species in temperate old-growth forests over 30 years	2
Forest plantations with public subsidies: to harvest or not to harvest, this is the question	2
Secondary metabolites of six Siberian and Crimean Armillaria species and their in vitro phytotoxicity to pine, larch and poplar	2
Use of brassinosteroids to overcome unfavourable climatic effects on seed germination in Pinus nigra J. F. Arnold	2
The complexity of mycobiota associated with chestnut galls induced by Dryocosmus kuriphilus in Galicia (Northwestern Spain)	2
Climate-wise models of biomass productivity for hybrid poplar clones in Europe	2
Suitability of Fagus orientalis Lipsky at marginal Fagus sylvatica L. forest sites in Southern Germany	2
The missing part of the past, current, and future distribution model of Quercus ilex L.: the eastern edge	2
Estimation of above-ground biomass using machine learning approaches with InSAR and LiDAR data in tropical peat swamp forest of Brunei Darussalam	2
The soil-conscious forestry and the forbidden apple	2
Evaluation of estimation methods for fitting the three-parameter Weibull distribution to European beech forests	2
A multisource approach helps to detect a forest as a reference site in an intensively used rural landscape (Uckermark, NE Germany)	2
Bioaccumulation of long-term atmospheric heavy metal pollution within the Carpathian arch: monumental trees and their leaves memoir	2
Using nano-scale Fe0 particles and organic waste to improve the nutritional status of tree seedlings growing in heavy metal-contaminated soil	2
Three prescribed fire regimes on the restoration of flooded savannah grasslands under encroachment of Vochysia divergens Pohl, Pantanal, Brazil	2