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Forest Systems
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Forest Systems

2171-5068

Published by: Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria

https://revistas.inia.es/index.php/fs

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 719 12 11 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 18
Documents by Best Scientists*: 14
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 34
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.226
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Forest Systems?

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Ecology, Forestry, Botany, Forest management and Humanities. The journal facilitated presentations on Ecology research, particularly Woody plant, Mediterranean climate, Species richness and Vegetation. The Forestry works, particularly on Basal area are tackled in it.

Issues in Botany were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Agronomy and Horticulture. It facilitates discussions on Forest management that incorporate concepts from other fields like Forest ecology and Environmental resource management.

  • Ecology (16.84%)
  • Forestry (13.83%)
  • Botany (12.53%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Models for supporting forest management in a changing environment (120 citations)
  • New models for estimating the carbon sink capacity of Spanish softwood species (97 citations)
  • Biomass models to estimate carbon stocks for hardwood tree species (80 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Forest Systems:

The journal publications are mainly concerned with subjects like Ecology, Forest management, Forestry, Botany and Humanities. The published articles in Mediterranean climate, Woody plant, Picea abies and Pinus pinaster fall within the purview of Ecology but it also intertwines with topics in Context (language use). The most cited papers explore issues in Forest management which can be linked to other research areas like Forest ecology, Forest dynamics and Environmental resource management.

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

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Forest Systems tackles a plethora of topics, such as Forestry, Ecology, Horticulture, Canopy and Botany. Juniper are all disciplines of Forestry that connect with topics in Future application. Attendees of the journal participated in discussions that delve into both Ecology and Composition (visual arts).

Salicylic acid, Pinus pinaster, Citric acid and Stomatal conductance are some topics wherein Horticulture research discussed in the journal have an impact. While Canopy is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Seasonality, Quercus variabilis, Sclerophyll, Shoot and Abiotic component. Many of the research works in Botany, specifically Eucalyptus, closely connected to disciplines like Variation (linguistics).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Salicylic and citric acid as promising new stimulants for resin tapping in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) (2 citations)
  • Mulch removal time did not have significant effects on Tuber melanosporum mycelium biomass (1 citations)
  • Improving the accuracy of wood moisture content estimation in four European softwoods from Spain (1 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 Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Gregorio Montero (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ricardo Alía (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Felipe Bravo (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Luis Gil (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Isabel Cañellas (20 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 Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Technical University of Madrid (159 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Center for International Forestry Research (141 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Valladolid (76 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Santiago de Compostela (51 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (48 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, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% 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

  • Characterizing spatial structure of Abies marocana forest through point pattern analysis

    Mariem Ben-Said;Abdelilah Ghallab;Hajar Lamrhari;José Antonio Carreira

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Small-scale variation in available water capacity of the soil influences height growth of single trees in Southern Germany

    (2023)
    5 Citations
  • Vegetation structure and biodiversity recovery in 19-year-old active restoration plantations in a Neotropical cloud forest

    Rosa-Amelia Pedraza;Guadalupe Williams-Linera;Teresa Nicolás-Silva

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Mulch removal time did not have significant effects on Tuber melanosporum mycelium biomass

    İsmail Şen;Yasmine Piñuela;Josu G. Alday;Daniel Oliach

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Multi-criteria analysis to compare multiple risks associated with management alternatives in planted forests

    Margot Régolini;Ander Arias González;Manuela Branco;Céline Meredieu

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • ModERFoRest: A new software for assessing the environmental performance of forest species

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • Tree-ring reconstruction of March-June precipitation from the Atlas cedar forest of Mount Takoucht, Béjaïa (northern Algeria)

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • Additive modeling systems to simultaneously predict aboveground biomass and carbon for Litsea glutinosa of agroforestry model in tropical highlands

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • Autumn cold acclimation and freezing tolerance of three oak species in semi-Mediterranean Zagros forests

    (2024)
    0 Citations
  • Chloroplast microsatellite diversity of Pinus brutia Ten. and Pinus halepensis Mill. populations across the Mediterranean basin: Inferences of their distributions

    (2023)
    0 Citations

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