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Journal of Forestry Research - Good News: Journal of Forestry Research received the new citation metrics, IF 2022 as 3.0, CiteScore 2022 as 5.5!

We are pleased to announce that Journal of Forestry Research (JFR) has received the new citation metrics in June 2023:

  • Impact Factor (IF 2022) as 3.0, which placed the journal as #14/69 (Q1) in the category of Forestry.
  • CiteScore 2022 as 5.5, which placed the journal as #20/153 (87th percentile, Q1) in the category of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Forestry.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the authors, reviewers, readers and editorial board members for their continuous support to the journal, and making this exciting development possible!


Call for Reading

We have selected 5 highly cited articles published in 2020-2021 as below. We hope the journal readers will enjoy reading those articles and recommending them to their colleagues!

  1. Geng, D., Innes, J., Wu, W. et al. Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on urban park visitation: a global analysis. J. For. Res. 32, 553–567 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-020-01249-w (this opens in a new tab)
  2. Karabourniotis, G., Liakopoulos, G., Nikolopoulos, D. et al. Protective and defensive roles of non-glandular trichomes against multiple stresses: structure–function coordination. J. For. Res. 31, 1–12 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-019-01034-4 (this opens in a new tab)
  3. Huang, S., Tang, L., Hupy, J.P. et al. A commentary review on the use of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in the era of popular remote sensing. J. For. Res. 32, 1–6 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-020-01155-1 (this opens in a new tab) 
  4. McEwan, A., Marchi, E., Spinelli, R. et al. Past, present and future of industrial plantation forestry and implication on future timber harvesting technology. J. For. Res. 31, 339–351 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-019-01019-3 (this opens in a new tab) 
  5. Chileshe, M.N., Syampungani, S., Festin, E.S. et al. Physico-chemical characteristics and heavy metal concentrations of copper mine wastes in Zambia: implications for pollution risk and restoration. J. For. Res. 31, 1283–1293 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-019-00921-0 (this opens in a new tab)

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