Abstract
Forests is a Swiss open access journal in the field of forestry and forest ecology founded in 2010. Currently, the journal celebrates its 10th anniversary. Therefore, the purpose of this research for the special issue A Decade of Forests Open Access Publishing is to present a whole bibliometric overview of the journal and highlight the state of the art of forestry as an interdisciplinary knowledge area. A bibliometric analysis of 2094 articles, reviews, editorials and corrections was conducted using two different scientific information platforms which publish indexes in online databases: Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The most influential countries and their relationship with funding institutions, the most leading and outstanding authors and the most significant articles published in Forests have been analyzed. A complete keyword concurrence network with a graphical visualization and a cluster analysis are adopted for identifying the main trends and opening issues to address in the coming decade, such as genetic diversity, forest productivity, resistance or resilience. This article has identified climate change, remote sensing, biomass and forest management as the main trends in forestry research during the last ten years.
Highlights
Since it is very common to organize a special issue when a scientific journal celebrates an anniversary, an interesting study that it is usually included in this number is a bibliometric overview of the journal in itself [1,2,3,4,5]
Forests entered the ranking in the category “Forestry” placed at 25 out of 60 (Quartile 2), the highest-ranked open access journal in this field
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Summary
Since it is very common to organize a special issue when a scientific journal celebrates an anniversary, an interesting study that it is usually included in this number is a bibliometric overview of the journal in itself [1,2,3,4,5]. Forests, founded in 2010, is a prestigious international scientific journal that since 2014 publishes monthly online and has the purpose of publishing works on any field of Forest Engineering and Ecology. The journal has experienced great recognition among professionals in this discipline, especially since its inclusion in the databases of the Web of Science (WoS). Since its incorporation in 2013 in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of the Science. Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), reaching a first Impact Factor of 1.094. Forests entered the ranking in the category “Forestry” placed at 25 out of 60 (Quartile 2), the highest-ranked open access journal in this field. In 2014 it started to be published monthly and since 2017 the Editor-in-Chief is Professor Dr Timothy A.
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