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International Journal of Forest Engineering
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International Journal of Forest Engineering

1494-2119

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tife20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 730 7 11 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 19
Documents by Best Scientists*: 41
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 15
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.52
Impact Factor: 1.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at International Journal of Forest Engineering?

The journal facilitates discussions on Logging, Forestry, Productivity, Agricultural engineering and Thinning. While Logging is the focus of International Journal of Forest Engineering, it also provided insights into the studies of Forest management, Agroforestry, Operations management, Biomass and Truck. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Operations management, apply to Operations research as well.

The majority of Biomass studies are focused on the issues of Bioenergy. Topics in Productivity were tackled in line with various other fields like Tree (data structure) and Terrain. The Thinning works featured in it incorporate elements from Forwarder and Felling.

  • Logging (25.63%)
  • Forestry (17.51%)
  • Productivity (15.52%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Characteristics and Significance of a Harvester Operators’ Working Technique in Thinnings (85 citations)
  • Productivity and Cutting Costs of Thinning Harvesters (80 citations)
  • FlowOpt - A Decision Support Tool for Strategic and Tactical Transportation Planning in Forestry (75 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at International Journal of Forest Engineering:

The published articles mainly deal with areas of study such as Logging, Thinning, Productivity, Forwarder and Operations management. Bioenergy, Mechanization, Falling (accident), Moisture and Truck are some topics wherein Logging research discussed in the published papers has an impact. The journal papers encompass Thinning studies in the context of Forestry as a whole.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Ecology
  • Statistics
  • Mechanical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Logging, Productivity, Agroforestry, Forestry and Agricultural engineering. In International Journal of Forest Engineering, Hydrology, Natural resource economics and Terrain are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Logging research. Topics in Productivity explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Forest management, Workload, Revenue and Arable land.

The work on Agroforestry tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Forest fuel, Energy balance, Tree (data structure), Clearing and Biomass. It facilitates discussions on Forestry that incorporate concepts from other fields like Ecological succession, Climate change, Pinus and Understory. Topics in Agricultural engineering were tackled in line with various other fields like Genetic algorithm, Fire protection, Wood cutting, Mobile device and Feature selection.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Worldwide trends in methods for harvesting and extracting industrial roundwood (3 citations)
  • Skyline tension and dynamic loading for cable yarding comparing conventional single-hitch versus horizontal double-hitch suspension carriages (2 citations)
  • Physiological workload evaluation by means of heart rate monitoring during motor-manual clearcutting operations (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in International Journal of Forest Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

  • John Sessions (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Raffaele Spinelli (17 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tomas Nordfjell (17 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Rien Visser (16 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Ola Lindroos (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in International Journal of Forest Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (67 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Oregon State University (44 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • United States Forest Service (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Finnish Forest Research Institute (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Eastern Finland (20 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 15.79% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 21.88% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 34.38% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 28.12% of all publications and 15.62% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Coupling a differential global navigation satellite system to a cut-to-length harvester operating system enables precise positioning of harvested trees

    Lennart Noordermeer;Erik Sørngård;Rasmus Astrup;Erik Næsset

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Applications of DEA and SFA in benchmarking studies in forestry: state-of-the-art and future directions

    Niels Strange;Peter Bogetoft;Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo;Bruce Talbot

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Depth-to-water maps as predictors of rut severity in fully mechanized harvesting operations

    (2022)
    10 Citations
  • Evaluating the productivity and costs of five energywood harvesting operations in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • The effect of tree and harvester size on productivity and harvester investment decisions

    Simon A. Ackerman;Bruce Talbot;Rasmus Astrup

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Tree marking versus tree selection by harvester operator: are there any differences in the development of thinned Norway spruce forests?

    Benno Eberhard;Hubert Hasenauer

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Knowledge and technologies for effective wood procurement

    Rasmus Astrup

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Pothole detection in the woods: a deep learning approach for forest road surface monitoring with dashcams

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • Comparing single-wheel attachable tracks to chains and bare tires on skidders for mitigating soil disturbance during harvesting operations

    (2022)
    1 Citations
  • Automatic detection of root rot and resin in felled Scots pine stems using convolutional neural networks

    (2024)
    1 Citations

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