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Forestry
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Forestry

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Published by: Oxford University Press

https://academic.oup.com/forestry

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 205 84 88 17
Plant Science and Agronomy 245 20 27 9
Environmental Sciences 370 30 57 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 148
Documents by Best Scientists*: 145
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 79
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.876
Impact Factor: 3.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Forestry?

Forestry primarily tackles Ecology, Botany, Agroforestry, Forestry and Agronomy. Woodland, Habitat, Beech, Canopy and Vegetation are among the concentrations of Ecology that garnered much attention in it. The journal explores issues in Botany which can be linked to other research areas like Thinning and Horticulture.

The work on Agroforestry addressed in it expands to the thematically related Forest ecology. The majority of Agronomy studies in it are focused on the subject of Sowing. Research in Scots pine discussed is concerned with the study of Pinus as a whole.

Forestry explores research in Forest management and the adjacent study of Environmental resource management.

  • Ecology (22.00%)
  • Botany (21.95%)
  • Agroforestry (19.12%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A Review of Damage by Mammals in North Temperate Forests: 3. Impact on Trees and Forests (609 citations)
  • Assessing forest canopies and understorey illumination: canopy closure, canopy cover and other measures (600 citations)
  • A Review of Damage by Mammals in North Temperate Forests: 1. Deer (379 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Forestry:

The journal publications are organized to reinforce research efforts on Ecology, Agroforestry, Botany, Forest management and Agronomy. The journal papers focus on Agroforestry but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Forest restoration, Forest ecology, Habitat, Temperate rainforest and Forestry. The most cited papers deal with Forest management in conjunction with Environmental resource management and similar fields in Sustainable forest management.

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

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main points discussed in the journal deals with Dynamics (music), Timber volume, Simulation, Frost and Global warming. The work on Frost tackled in it brings together disciplines like Softwood, Climate change, Atmospheric sciences and Extreme Cold.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Self-learning growth simulator for modelling forest stand dynamics in changing conditions (1 citations)
  • The long-term development of temperate woodland creation sites: from tree saplings to mature woodlands (0 citations)
  • Modelling the impact of climate change on the occurrence of frost damage in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) in Great Britain (0 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 Forestry (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Gary Kerr (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter Savill (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ian Willoughby (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ralph Harmer (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Barry Gardiner (14 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 Forestry (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Forestry Commission (196 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • United States Forest Service (55 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Edinburgh (46 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Aberdeen (45 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Oxford (37 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 33.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 33.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 33.33% 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

  • The changing culture of silviculture

    Alexis Achim;Guillaume Moreau;Nicholas C Coops;Jodi N Axelson

    (2021)
    117 Citations
  • Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions

    (2023)
    106 Citations
  • Opportunities and limitations of thinning to increase resistance and resilience of trees and forests to global change

    Unknown

    (2022)
    93 Citations
  • A comparison of UAV laser scanning, photogrammetry and airborne laser scanning for precision inventory of small-forest properties

    Stefano Puliti;Jonathan P Dash;Michael S Watt;Johannes Breidenbach

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Framework for near real-time forest inventory using multi source remote sensing data

    (2022)
    48 Citations
  • Comparison of linear regression, k-nearest neighbour and random forest methods in airborne laser-scanning-based prediction of growing stock

    Diogo N Cosenza;Lauri Korhonen;Matti Maltamo;Petteri Packalen

    (2021)
    39 Citations
  • Towards dynamic forest trafficability prediction using open spatial data, hydrological modelling and sensor technology

    Aura Salmivaara;Samuli Launiainen;Jari Perttunen;Paavo Nevalainen

    (2020)
    37 Citations

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