About this journal
Aims and scope
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 277K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.8 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.865 (2023) SNIP
- 0.691 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 26 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 136 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 13 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 27% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Kristin Floress, USDA Forest Service’s Northern Research Station, Evanston, Illinois
Emily S. Huff, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
FOUNDING CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Rabel J. Burdge, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA
Donald R. Field, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
MANAGING EDITOR
Jessica Hill, International Association for Society & Natural Resources
BOOK REVIEW EDITORS
Jennifer Bond - Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
Chelsea Schelly - Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, US
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Nabin Baral - University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Douglas Bessette - Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, USA
Dilshaad Bundhoo - University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Jesse Caputo - USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Amherst, MA, USA
Stuart Carlton - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Timothy Collins - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Peter Cronkleton - Center for International Forestry Research, Lima, Peru
Caroline Gottschalk Druschke - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Peter Edwards – Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Wellington, New Zealand
Louise Eriksson - Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Klara Fischer - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Ritwick Ghosh - Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Troy Hall – Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Ian Hanley - New Hampshire State Conservation Committee, Concord, NH, USA
Feng Hao - University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Jun He - Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Jonas Hein - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn, Germany
Trevor Hill - University of KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Jennifer M. Holzer - Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Thembela Kepe - University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Kotryna Klizentyte - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Gerard Kyle - Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Dexter Henry Locke - USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Baltimore, MD, USA
Zhao Ma - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Piotr Matczak – Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Candace K. May - US Environmental Protection Agency, Durham, NC, USA
Brian Mayer – University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Iliana Monterroso Ibarra - Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA), Guatemala City, Guatemala
Fiona Nunan - University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Chelsea S. Pennick - University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
Raju Pokharel - Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Gautam Prateek - XIM University, Odisha, India
Amit Pradhananga - University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
H. M. Tuihedur Rahman - Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Pranay Ranjan - Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Rachel Schattman – University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Bimbika Sijapati Basnett - Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Economic Development (PROSPERA), Bogor, Indonesia
Chris Sneddon - Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Michael Sorice - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Carly Sponarski - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Marc J. Stern – Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Sharon Suiwen Zou - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
Abigail Sullivan - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Aaron Thompson - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Thong Anh Tran - The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Brooklynn Wynveen - Sam Houston State University, TX, USA
Landon Yoder - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Xiao Xiao – Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD
Lauren Asprooth - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Iosif Botetzagias - University of the Aegean, Lesbos, Greece
Hilary Boudet - Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Angie Carter - Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
Paolo Omar Cerutti – Center for International Forestry Research, Nairobi, Kenya
Mysha Clarke - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek - South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA
Ashley D’Antonio - Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Lain (Melanie) Dare - University of Canberra, Bruce, Australia
Alan P. Diduck – University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada
Kelly Heber Dunning - Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Darrick Evensen - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Shah Fahad - Leshan Normal University, Leshan City, China
Adam Fix - Denison University, Granville, OH, USA
Benjamin Ghasemi - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Benjamin (Ben) Gramig - USDA, Kansas City, MO, USA
Tian Guo - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Sally Hawkins - Institute for Science and Environment, University of Cumbria, United Kingdom
Kathleen Krafte Holland - University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, USA
Michael Hughes - Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia
Md. Saidul Islam - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Daniel Keech - University of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Michiel Köhne - Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Dawn Kotowicz - U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Erika Kraus - USDA NIFA, Kansas City, MO, USA
Kreg Lindberg - Oregon State University, Bend, OR, USA
Chieh-Lu Li - National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan
Shuang Li - Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, USA
John Chung-En Liu - National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Junyu Lu - Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Stephanie Malin - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Nia Morales - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Max Nielsen-Pincus - Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA
Anja Nygren - University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Christine Overdevest - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
John R. Parkins - University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Lorenzo Pellegrini - Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Archi Rastogi - Universalia Management Group, Quebec, Canada
Adam Reimer - National Wildlife Federation, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Arlette S. Saint Ville - The University of the West Indies, St. Agustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Renzo Taddei - Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Thomas Thaler - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Alyssa S. Thomas - USFS, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA, USA
David Trimbach - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, WA, USA
Kenneth Wallen - University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
Nigel Watson - University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Chenyang Xiao - American University, Washington, D.C., USA
Yaoqi Zhang - Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in:
• CABI
° Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases (Online)
° AgBiotechNet
° Agricultural Economics Database
° Agricultural Engineering Abstracts (Online)
° Agroforestry Abstracts (Online)
° Animal Breeding Abstracts (Online)
° Animal Production Database
° Animal Science Database
° Biocontrol News and Information (Online)
° Biofuels Abstracts
° CAB Abstracts
° Crop Science Database
° Environmental Impact
° Forest Products Abstracts (Online)
° Forest Science Database
° Forestry Abstracts (Online)
° Global Health
° Grasslands and Forage Abstract (Online)
° Horticultural Science Database
° Index Veterinarius (Online)
° InfoTree
° Irrigation and Drainage Abstract (Online)
° Leisure Tourism Database
° Maize Abstracts (Online)
° Nutrition and Food Sciences Database
° Organic Research Database
° Ornamental Horticulture (Online)
° Parasitology Database
° Pig News and Information (Online)
° Plant Genetic Resources Abstracts (Online)
° Plant Genetics and Breeding Database
° Plant Protection Database
° Postharvest Abstracts
° Potato Abstracts (Online)
° Poultry Abstracts (Online)
° Review of Agricultural Entomology (Online)
° Review of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants (Online)
° Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology (Online)
° Rice Abstracts (Online)
° Rural Development Abstracts (Online)
° Seed Abstracts (Online)
° Soil Science Database
° Soils and Fertilizers (Online)
° Soybean Abstracts (Online)
° TropAg & Rural
° Tropical Diseases Bulletin (Online)
° Veterinary Science Database
° VetMed Resource
° Weed Abstracts (Online)
° Wheat, Barley and Triticale Abstracts (Online)
° World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts (Online)
• EBSCOhost
° Academic Search Alumni Edition
° Academic Search Complete
° Academic Search Elite
° Academic Search Premier
° Academic Search R&D
° Academic Search Ultimate
° AGRICOLA
° Current Abstracts
° Environment Complete
° Environment Index
° GreenFILE
° Political Science Complete
° Public Affairs Index
° STM Source
° TOC Premier
° Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
• Elsevier BV
° GEOBASE
° Scopus
• Gale
° Academic OneFile
° Book Review Index Plus
° Environmental Studies & Policy Collection
° InfoTrac Custom
• National Library of Medicine
° PubMed
• OCLC
° Sociological Abstracts (Online), Selective
• Personal Alert (E-mail)
• ProQuest
° AGRICOLA
° Agricultural & Environmental Science Database
° ASFA Aquatic Sciences & Living Resources (Online), Selective
° Engineering Research Database, Selective
° Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Selective
° Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, Selective
° International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Core
° Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (Online), Selective
° Natural Science Collection
° PAIS Index (Public Affairs Information Service), Selective
° Politics Collection
° Pollution Abstracts (Online), Selective
° Professional ProQuest Central
° ProQuest 5000 International
° ProQuest Central
° ProQuest Environment Abstracts, Selective
° ProQuest Environmental Science Collection
° ProQuest Science Journals
° ProQuest SciTech Collection
° SciTech Premium Collection
° Social Science Premium Collection
° Social Services Abstracts, Selective
° Sociological Abstracts (Online), Core
° Sustainability Science Abstracts, Selective
° Technology Research Database, Selective
° Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Selective
• Thomson Reuters
° Current Contents
° Social Science Citation Index
° Web of Science
° Zoological Record Online
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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News, offers and calls for papers
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Society information
The International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR)
The IASNR aims to:
- Foster the interdisciplinary social scientific understanding of the relationships between humans and natural resources;
- further the application of social science information in natural resource decision-making and
- provide a mechanism whereby social scientists, resource managers, practitioners, agency personnel, and decision makers can generate dialogue and useful exchange.
Membership of the IASNR includes a subscription to Society & Natural Resources (including free online access). Become an IASNR Member
- Professional Member - with Online: $120
- Professional Member - with Online and Hardcopy: $150
- Student Member - with Online: $50
- Student Member - with Online and Hardcopy: $80
- Emeritus/Retired Member - with Online: $60
- Emeritus/Retired Member - with Online and Hardcopy: $90
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