A synthesis of the characteristics of current national, regional and international forestry journals

Peteh, Maja (author)

One of the main objectives of the International Union of Forest Research Organization%s WP 9.01.06 (Forest Science Publishing) is to clarify the range of forestry-related journals in the context of the overall objective of supporting authors and readers to deepen their knowledge of forestry. This study extended an earlier list of forestry journals using the ISSN database and the CAB abstracts. The study included 451 journal titles, each categorized by ISSN, publisher, language of publication, website, and geographical coverage (i.e. national, regional, international, or three mixed intermediate categories), as well as information on indexing in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and SherpaRomeo. The included journals are published in 61 countries and in 32 different languages. Those categorized as international are mostly published in English. 21.7% of the journals are indexed in Web of Science and 34.1% in Scopus. 95.6% of the titles are published online or in the print+online publishing model, but only 57.0% of the titles are published in Open Access, of which only 33.7% are indexed in DOAJ.

• Language: English
• Keywords: forestry, geographical coverage, journal title list, scientific publishing
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 9 str.
• Numbering: article 10350, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-117491
• UDC: 630*94
• ISSN on article: 2242-4075
• DOI: 10.14214/sf.10350
• COBISS.SI-ID: 22307331
• Publication date in RUL: 13.07.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Silva Fennica
• Publisher: Finnish Society of Forest Science
• ISSN: 2242-4075
• COBISS.SI-ID: 520811289

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 13.07.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: gozdarstvo, geografska razpršenost, seznam gozdarskih revij, znanstveno publiciranje

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Project number: LIFE13 ENV/SI/000148
• Name: LIFE for European Forest Genetic Monitoring System
• Acronym: LIFEGENMON