List of forestry journals

This list includes representative academic, peer-reviewed journals in forestry, forest science and related fields. Included are several historic but still-publishing journals of forestry, traditional scientific forestry journals, and several newer, open-access journals. More than 180 forestry journals were being published in 2008.^[1]

Historic and still publishing

Forestry journals established more than a century ago and still publishing include:

• Sylwan, est. 1820, Poland
• Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen (Swiss Forestry Journal), est. 1850, Switzerland
• Montes: Revista de Ámbito Forestal, est. 1868, Spain^[2]
• The Indian Forester, est. 1875, India
• Šumarski list (Forestry Review), est. 1876, Croatia^[3]
• Revista pădurilor (Journal of Forests), est. 1882, Romania^[4]
• Journal of Forestry, est. 1902, USA*

Contemporary scientific

Contemporary, peer-reviewed scientific journals of forestry include:

* Top 10 impact-ranked journals of forestry (Vanclay, 2008)

Open access

Open access forestry journals include:

• Forests, "an open access journal of forestry and forest ecology," published by MDPI, based in Switzerland^[12]
• International Journal of Forest, Soil and Erosion, Iran^[13]
• International Journal of Forestry Research, "a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of forestry research," published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation, based in New York^[14]
• Journal of Forest and Livelihood, "documents and disseminates the insights, lessons and innovations taking place in socio-cultural, political and economic aspects of environmental governance and rural livelihoods in Nepal," published by ForestAction Nepal, in Nepal^[15]
• Journal of the Faculty of Forestry Istanbul University (JFFIU) (formerly Review of the Faculty of Forestry, University of Istanbul), est. 1951, Turkey.^[9]
• The Open Forest Science Journal, "publishes research articles, reviews, letters and guest edited single topic issues in all areas of forest science," published by Bentham Science Publishers, based in Sharjah, U.A.E.; Oak Park, Illinois, USA; and Bussum, the Netherlands^[16]

Defunct

Forestry journals that have ceased publication or merged with other journals include:

• Forest & Conservation History (1990-96), USA (merged into Environmental History)^[17]
• International Journal of Social Forestry, Indonesia
• Journal of Forest History (1975-89), USA (renamed Forest & Conservation History)^[17]
• Forest Genetics, Slovakia
• Northern Journal of Applied Forestry, USA (combined into Forest Science)
• Southern Journal of Applied Forestry, USA (combined into Forest Science)
• Western Journal of Applied Forestry, USA (combined into Forest Science)

See also

• List of botany journals
• List of environmental journals
• List of environmental social science journals
• List of historic journals of forestry

References

External links

• Forestry journal descriptions, FAO Forestry Information Centre
• International Journal of Social Forestry, Indonesia (online archive)
• "Journal rankings: forestry," Scimago Lab, 2011
• "Journals ranked by impact: forestry," ScienceWatch.com, March 4, 2010
• "Major journals in forestry and related science," ForestryNepal (with links)
• -index,"hVanclay, Jerome K. 2008. "Ranking journals of forestry using the Journal of Informetrics 2(4): 326-334.

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