Journal of Sustainable Forestry publishes peer-reviewed, original research on forest science. While the emphasis is on sustainable use of forest products and services, the journal covers a wide range of topics from the underlying biology and ecology of forests to the social, economic and policy aspects of forestry. Short communications and review papers that provide a clear theoretical, conceptual or methodological contribution to the existing literature are also included in the journal.
Common topics covered in the Journal of Sustainable Forestry include:
• Ecology, management, recreation, restoration and silvicultural systems of all forest types, including urban forests • All aspects of forest biology, including ecophysiology, entomology, pathology, genetics, tree breeding, and biotechnology • Wood properties, forest biomass, bioenergy, and carbon sequestration • Simulation modeling, inventory, quantitative methods, and remote sensing • Environmental pollution, fire and climate change impacts, and adaptation and mitigation in forests • Forest engineering, economics, human dimensions, natural resource policy, and planning
Journal of Sustainable Forestry provides an international forum for dialogue between research scientists, forest managers, economists and policy and decision makers who share the common vision of the sustainable use of natural resources.
Peer Review Statement: All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review. All peer review is single-anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
If an author is uncertain about the relevance of his/her manuscript to the Journal of Sustainable Forestry, the authors are encouraged to send an abstract to the editor at [email protected].
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Journal metrics
Usage
49K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
1.5 (2023) 5 year IF
3.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.697 (2023) SNIP
0.439 (2023) SJR
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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
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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.
Jacob Bukoski - Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA Francesco Martini - School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Editorial Board
Mark Ashton - Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, USA Patrick J. Baker - University of Melbourne, Australia Kamaljit S. Bawa - University of Massachusetts-Boston, MA, USA Peter Bettinger -University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Janette P. Bulkan - University of British Columbia, Canada Kunfang Cao - College of Forestry, Guangxi University, China Benjamin Cashore - Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, USA Diana Castillo-Diaz – Terraformation, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA Huayang Chen – Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Anurag Dhyani - Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Kerala, India Alexander M. Evans - The Forest Guild, Santa Fe, NM, USA Alex J. Finkral - The Forestlands Group, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Anton Fischer - Technical University of Munich, Germany Kalame Fobissie - University of Helsinki, Finland Nalaka Geekiyanage -Rajarata University, Sri Lanka John C. Gordon - Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, USA Jefferson S. Hall - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, DC, USA Hong Liu - Florida International University, Miami FL, USA Gayani Hewagama- Unitec Institute of Technology, Mt Albert Campus, Auckland, New Zealand Lloyd C. Irland- University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA Florencia Montagnini - Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, CT, USA Tapan Kumar Nath - University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih Selangor, Malaysia Edward Kweku Nunoo - Central University, Acara, Ghana Tatsuhiro Ohkubo - Utsunomiya University, Japan Chadwick Dearing Oliver - Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, CT, USA Diane Russell - Washington, DC, USA Ricardo O. Russo - University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica Louis Stephen Santiago - University of California, CA, USA Zafar Siddiq-Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan K. Sivaramakrishnan - Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Rajesh Thadani - Centre for Ecology, Development, and Research (CEDAR), India
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Sustainable Forestry is abstracted and indexed by the following services: Thomson Reuters (Science Citation Index Expanded; Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition; Current Contents®/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences); CABI (listed in various services in CABI); CSA (listed in various services in CSA); De Gruyter Saur (IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes); EBSCOhost (listed in various services in EBSCOhost); Elsevier BC (Compendex, GEOBASE, PaperChem, Scopus); OCLC (ArticleFirst, Biology Digest,Electronic Collections Online); ProQuest (listed in various services in ProQuest); VINTI RAN (Referatiynyi Zhurnal); Wildlife Review Abstracts
Open access
Journal of Sustainable Forestry is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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