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Forest Ecosystems
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Forest Ecosystems

2095-6355

Published by: Springer

https://forestecosyst.springeropen.com/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 151 142 132 21
Environmental Sciences 316 48 59 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 242
Documents by Best Scientists*: 207
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 10
SCIMAGO H-index: 41
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.176
Impact Factor: 4.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Forest Ecosystems?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Ecosystem, Forestry, Ecology, Forest ecology and Forest management. The research on Ecosystem featured in it combines topics in other fields like Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Biomass (ecology), Agronomy and Climate change. The concepts on Agronomy presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Soil water, Soil carbon, Soil pH, Plant litter and Dry season.

The subject of Physical geography, which is connected to the field of Vegetation, serves as the foundation of the Climate change research featured in Forest Ecosystems. The featured Forestry studies mainly concentrate on Statistics but also cover areas of interest in Forest inventory. Forest Ecosystems aims to address concerns in Ecology, specifically in the areas of Species richness, Abundance (ecology), Habitat, Understory and Dominance (ecology).

It dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Forest ecology and Forest dynamics. While work presented in Forest Ecosystems provided substantial information on Forest management, it also covered topics in Scots pine, Environmental resource management and Ecosystem services. Most of the works presented in the journal deals with Environmental resource management but it intersects with the subject of Ecology (disciplines).

  • Ecosystem (42.15%)
  • Forestry (23.84%)
  • Ecology (21.22%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Silvicultural alternatives to conventional even-aged forest management - what limits global adoption? (164 citations)
  • Negative consequences of positive feedbacks in US wildfire management (135 citations)
  • Use of models in large-area forest surveys: comparing model-assisted, model-based and hybrid estimation (78 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Forest Ecosystems:

The most cited publications mostly deal with topics like Ecosystem, Environmental resource management, Forest management, Ecology and Forest ecology. The journal publications explore issues in Ecosystem which can be linked to other research areas like Species richness, Agroforestry, Climate change and Econometrics. The journal papers connects research in Ecology with the related topics of Forestry.

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

  • Ecology
  • Statistics
  • Ecosystem

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Ecosystem, Biomass (ecology), Forest management, Forest ecology and Forestry. Ecosystem studies tackled cover an aspect of the field of Ecology. It explores topics in Forest management which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Ecosystem services, Scots pine, Temperate forest, Logging and Beech.

It facilitates discussions on Ecosystem services that incorporate concepts from other fields like Agroforestry, Forest inventory, Soil conservation and Environmental resource management. The research on Forest ecology tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Thinning, Forest dynamics, Physical geography, Understory and Nutrient. Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere and Habitat are some topics wherein Forestry research discussed in the journal have an impact.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Strong controls of daily minimum temperature on the autumn photosynthetic phenology of subtropical vegetation in China (4 citations)
  • A multi-purpose National Forest Inventory in Bangladesh: design, operationalisation and key results (3 citations)
  • Organic mulching promotes soil organic carbon accumulation to deep soil layer in an urban plantation forest (3 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 Forest Ecosystems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Timo Pukkala (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Klaus von Gadow (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Johannes Breidenbach (7 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jürgen Bauhus (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Matthias Schmidt (6 papers) absent at the last 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 Forest Ecosystems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Göttingen (25 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • United States Forest Service (22 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Beijing Forestry University (21 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (21 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Stellenbosch University (18 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, 7.46% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 45.16% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.84% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.97% of all publications and 29.03% 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

  • Machine learning and geostatistical approaches for estimating aboveground biomass in Chinese subtropical forests

    Huiyi Su;Wenjuan Shen;Jingrui Wang;Arshad Ali

    (2020)
    113 Citations
  • A century of National Forest Inventory in Norway - informing past, present, and future decisions.

    Johannes Breidenbach;Aksel Granhus;Gro Hylen;Rune Eriksen

    (2020)
    111 Citations
  • Variation of net primary productivity and its drivers in China’s forests during 2000–2018

    Yuhe Ji;Guangsheng Zhou;Tianxiang Luo;Yakir Dan

    (2020)
    74 Citations
  • Active forest management accelerates carbon storage in plantation forests in Lishui, southern China

    (2022)
    69 Citations
  • Dynamics of dead wood decay in Swiss forests

    Oleksandra Hararuk;Werner A. Kurz;Markus Didion

    (2020)
    57 Citations
  • Mapping aboveground biomass and its prediction uncertainty using LiDAR and field data, accounting for tree-level allometric and LiDAR model errors

    Svetlana Saarela;André Wästlund;Emma Holmström;Alex Appiah Mensah

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Tree growth is more limited by drought in rear-edge forests most of the times

    J. Julio Camarero;Antonio Gazol;Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda;Marta Vergarechea

    (2021)
    49 Citations

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