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Silva Fennica
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Silva Fennica

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Published by: Finnish Society of Forest Science

https://silvafennica.fi/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 364 6 14 5
Ecology and Evolution 462 16 20 8
Environmental Sciences 572 13 34 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 42
Documents by Best Scientists*: 68
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 73
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.602
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Silva Fennica?

Silva Fennica primarily focuses on research topics in Botany, Agroforestry, Forestry, Scots pine and Agronomy. The journal centers on topics in Botany, with a focus on Picea abies. The main emphasis of Silva Fennica is the research on Agroforestry, emphasizing the topic of Forest management.

Thinning is a major topic of Forestry research. The work on Scots pine addressed in the journal expands to the thematically related Woody plant.

  • Botany (14.48%)
  • Agroforestry (13.71%)
  • Forestry (13.53%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Natural fire regime : a guide for sustainable management of the Canadian boreal forest (415 citations)
  • Adaptive significance of evergreen vs. deciduous leaves : solving the triple paradox (382 citations)
  • Ecology of Species Living on Dead Wood - Lessons for Dead Wood Management (339 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Silva Fennica:

The published papers primarily tackle Scots pine, Forestry, Agroforestry, Botany and Ecology. In addition to Scots pine research, the most cited papers aim to explore topics under Picea abies, Thinning, Woody plant and Agronomy. The Botany research tackled in the published articles is interrelated with Basal area which concerns subjects like Statistics.

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

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of Silva Fennica are Forestry, Tree (data structure), Scots pine, Agronomy and Horticulture. Topics in Forestry explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Boom, Excavator and Pruning. In addition to Tree (data structure) research, the journal aims to explore topics under Scale (ratio), Senescence, Reflectivity and Hemiboreal.

While Silva Fennica focused on Scots pine, it was also able to explore topics like Peat, Hydrology, Ditch and Sphaeropsis sapinea. Agronomy research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Variation (linguistics), Cover (algebra) and Drained peatland. The featured Horticulture research zeroes in on concepts in Germination but also tackles themes under Radial gradient.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Sphaeropsis sapinea found as symptomless endophyte in Finland (5 citations)
  • Management of spontaneously regenerated mixed stands of birch and Norway spruce in Sweden (1 citations)
  • Abiotic stresses induced physiological, biochemical, and molecular changes in Betula platyphylla : a review (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 Silva Fennica (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Seppo Kellomäki (71 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Matti Kärkkäinen (46 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Timo Pukkala (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Matti Maltamo (29 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Pertti Hari (26 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 Silva Fennica (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Natural Resources Institute Finland (169 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (74 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Eastern Finland (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Jyväskylä (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, 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

  • Volumetric overestimation of small branches in 3D reconstructions of Fraxinus excelsior

    (2022)
    63 Citations
  • Evaluating the performance of a double integrating sphere in measurement of reflectance, transmittance, and albedo of coniferous needles

    Aarne Hovi;Matti Mõttus;Jussi Juola;Farshid Manoocheri

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Recent unexpected decline of forest growth in North Finland: examining tree-ring, climatic and reproduction data

    (2022)
    15 Citations
  • Detection of Root, Butt, and Stem Rot presence in Norway spruce with hyperspectral imagery

    (2022)
    15 Citations
  • Analyzing ingrowth using zero-inflated negative binomial models

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Large-scale two-phase estimation of wood production by poplar plantations exploiting Sentinel-2 data as auxiliary information

    A. Marcelli;W. Mattioli;N. Puletti;F. Chianucci

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • From a rare inhabitant into a potential pest – status of the nun moth in Finland based on pheromone trapping

    Markus Melin;Heli Viiri;Olli-Pekka Tikkanen;Riku Elfving

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Reuse of field data in ALS-assisted forest inventory

    Ana de Lera Garrido;Terje Gobakken;Hans Ørka;Erik Næsset

    (2020)
    11 Citations

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