Forestry Chronicle
Canadian Institute of Forestry · Canada
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Aims & Scope
The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada (CIF-IFC) has published The Forestry Chronicle, a professional and scientific forestry journal since 1925. In 2017, the Chronicle switched from print issues to open access publishing, allowing the journal to be made available to any reader without any financial or technical barriers. It is an online-only distribution, that is not available in print, which increases opportunities for authors, including all-colour pages, links to biographies, other work, videos, or GIFS. E-first finalized manuscripts were initiated in mid-2020, allowing papers to be published immediately upon final acceptance on the journal website without the delay of waiting for an entire issue to be published. Authors retain copyright to their work, and all articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). The Forestry Chronicle is published to provide information to forest practitioners about professional and scientific management of forests and their resources. The Forestry Chronicle provides forest practitioners in Canada and around the world with a means to communicate with their peers in the professional community. Click hereto search through past abstracts and keywords to find the past article in the Forestry Chronicle you were looking for!*please note: this tool requires Microsoft Access to run. Approximately 1MB in size. Themed Section of Professional Papers – papers from workshops, symposiums, conferences Scientific and Technical Papers – Topics such as biodiversity, GIS, forests and culture, poplars and willows, managing ecosystems and professional standards. Professional Papers – observations and projects from government and industry in peer-reviewed format. The Forestry Chronicle is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full
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Publication & Citation Trend
Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.
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Frequently asked questions about Forestry Chronicle
Is Forestry Chronicle a predatory journal?
PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Forestry Chronicle: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Its PubScope Trust Score is 96/100. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.
What is the impact factor of Forestry Chronicle?
Forestry Chronicle is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.28.
Is Forestry Chronicle indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?
Forestry Chronicle is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.
What is the aims and scope of Forestry Chronicle?
The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada (CIF-IFC) has published The Forestry Chronicle, a professional and scientific forestry journal since 1925. In 2017, the Chronicle switched from print issues to open access publishing, allowing the journal to be made available to any reader without any financial or technical barriers. It is an online-only distribution, that is not available in print, which increases opportunities for authors, including all-colour pages, links to biographies, other work, videos, or GIFS. E-first finalized manuscripts were initiated in mid-2020, allo
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