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Forests Trees and Livelihoods
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Forests Trees and Livelihoods

1472-8028

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tftl20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 552 3 3 2
Ecology and Evolution 697 6 6 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 13
Documents by Best Scientists*: 12
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 34
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.368
Impact Factor: 1.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Forests, trees and livelihoods?

The journal facilitates discussions on Agroforestry, Livelihood, Environmental resource management, Forest management and Agriculture. The work on Agroforestry tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Indigenous, Land use, Domestication, Sustainability and Subsistence agriculture. Issues in Livelihood were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Economic growth, Poverty, Biodiversity and Socioeconomics.

The research on Environmental resource management featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Community forestry, Natural resource management and Environmental planning. Forests, trees and livelihoods features studies on Forest management, including topics such as Joint Forest Management.

  • Agroforestry (41.89%)
  • Livelihood (25.90%)
  • Environmental resource management (15.32%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MIOMBO FRUIT TREES AS COMMERCIAL TREE CROPS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (134 citations)
  • PUTTING PARTICIPATORY DOMESTICATION INTO PRACTICE IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA (111 citations)
  • DOMESTICATING INDIGENOUS FRUIT TREES AS A CONTRIBUTION TO POVERTY REDUCTION (110 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Forests, trees and livelihoods:

The most cited articles mainly tackle studies in Agroforestry, Livelihood, Domestication, Subsistence agriculture and Dacryodes edulis. The studies on Agroforestry discussed at the most cited papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Indigenous, Biodiversity, Cultivar, Ecosystem services and Sclerocarya birrea. In addition to Livelihood research, the most cited articles aim to explore topics under Economic growth, Poverty and Environmental resource management.

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

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Botany

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Agroforestry, Livelihood, Developing country, Forestry and Subsistence agriculture. Agroforestry research featured in Forests, trees and livelihoods incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Biodiversity conservation, Indigenous and Indigenous knowledge system. Issues in Indigenous were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Rootstock, Domestication and Grafting (decision trees).

The concepts on Livelihood presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Governance system, Sustainability, Ordered logit, Bamboo and Food security. While Developing country is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Community forestry and Socioeconomics. The work on Community forestry tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Economic growth, Poverty and Tropics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Nature and level of NTFP reliance: a case study in the buffer zone of Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam (1 citations)
  • Are community forests delivering livelihood benefits? Insights from Uganda (1 citations)
  • Assessing the sustainability of bamboo management in central Indian forests (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 Forests, trees and livelihoods (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Roger R. B. Leakey (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ann Degrande (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Patrice Levang (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Zacharie Tchoundjeu (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Charlie M. Shackleton (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 Forests, trees and livelihoods (based on the number of publications) are:

  • World Agroforestry Centre (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Center for International Forestry Research (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • CGIAR (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Yaoundé I (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Addis Ababa University (8 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, 7.14% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 7.69% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 23.08% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.38% of all publications and 53.85% 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

  • Local knowledge of Saba senegalensis fruits against malnutrition in Mali

    Amadou Malé Kouyaté;Aboubacar Diallo;Ismaïla Diarra;Elie Antoine Padonou

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Livelihood benefits and challenges of Acacia decurrens -based agroforestry system in Awi Zone highlands, Northwest Ethiopia

    (2023)
    7 Citations
  • Use and management of tamarind (Tamarindus indica L., Fabaceae) local morphotypes by communities in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

    Hailay Girmay;Sarah Tewolde-Berhan;Hadgu Hishe;Zemede Asfaw

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • The cultural significance of plant-fiber crafts in Southern Africa: a comparative study of Eswatini, Malawi, and Zimbabwe

    Deepa Pullanikkatil;Gladman Thondhlana;Charlie Shackleton

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Forest and woodland expansion into forestry plantations informs screening for native agroforestry species, Maputaland South Africa

    A.P. Starke;Coert Johannes Geldenhuys;T.G. O’Connor;Colin Stuart Everson

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • Early sprouting behaviour of Lebanon oak (Quercus libani Oliv.) in Zagros forests of Iran

    Ahmad Valipour;Hedayat Ghazanfari;Manfred J. Lexer;Manouchehr Namiranian

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • Agroforestry at work

    (2024)
    0 Citations

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