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Онучин А.А. (фото на сайт).jpg Dr. Biol. Sci., Prof. Alexander A. Onuchin, Director for V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Russian Academy of SciencesSiberian BranchEditor-in-Сhief for the Siberian Journal of Forest Science
  

MESSAGE OF THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF


Dear readers, authors, reviewers, the editorial board members,

In 2024, the Siberian Journal of Forest Science celebrates its 10th anniversary. From 2014 to 2024 in 66 issues of the journal, more than 750 research articles were published. The geographic representation of articles is broad: more than 700 researchers from 27 countries, 70 cities, and 150 institutions and organizations have submitted articles to the journal. Leading research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and its regional branches – the Siberian Branch, the Ural Branch, the Far Eastern Branch and research centres, research institutes of foreign academies, Russian and foreign universities, state natural reserves and centres of forest protection have supported their researchers to publish articles in Siberian Journal of Forest Science. Journal articles have created reader interest, and the journal is gaining popularity in different regions of Russia and internationally. Our authors have been from Abkhazia, Austria, and Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, and Finland, Hungary, India, and Israel, Italy, Japan, and Germany, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, and Nigeria, Turkey, Serbia, Spain, and Sweden, South Korea, UK, Ukraine, and USA. Researchers from Abakan, Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Blagoveshchensk, and Bryansk, Donetsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Izhevsk and Kazan, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Kostroma, and Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Perm and Petrozavodsk, Saint-Petersburg, and Tyumen, Ufa, Ussuriysk, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vologda and Yakutsk, Yoshkar-Ola and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and dozens of other Russian cities share with the journal readers their research findings, discoveries and observations in forest science and silviculture, forest genetics, soil science, pyrology and microbiology, physiology, biochemistry of forest plants, phytopathology, biospheric functions of forests and their changes under anthropogenic impact and climatic processes, forest reclamation and amelioration. 

Besides classical forest science and forestry studies, articles reflecting the most significant reform processes and innovative development of the forest sector in Russia and abroad have been published, as well as overviews and discussion papers on various issues of forestry and forest management. Thanks to careful selection, plagiarism inspection, blind reviewing and professional editing the quality of publications have increased as well as the quality of citations. 

The editorial board of the journal consist of 77 leading Russian and foreign scientists – 2 academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 5 academicians and 2 corresponding members of foreign academies of science, 65 doctors of sciences (DSc), 10 candidates of sciences (PhD), 19 foreign researchers.

The Siberian Journal of Forest Science is guided by the requirements of international bibliographic databases and citation systems, international Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE and the «Scientific Publications Ethic Policy», developed by the Russian Committee on Scientific Publications’ Ethics, the principles of the full text open access network that contributed to the inclusion of the journal in an international scientific databases: AGRIS, CABI Forest Science Database, CrossRef, DOAJ, ROAD, Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory; The List of peer-reviewed scientific editions, where should be published main scientific results of dissertations for Candidate of Sciences (PhD) degree, dissertations for Doctor of Sciences (DSc) degree (by 30 October 2024) (Sibirskij Lesnoj Zurnal. Siberian Journal of Forest Science – No. 2533, Category К2 (No. 1914), based on the results of the final distribution of journals of the List of Higher Attestation Commissions into categories K1, K2, K3 in 2023), by three groups of scientific specialties: 03.01.00 – Physical-Chemical Biology (since 01.07.2019); 03.02.00 – General Biology, and 06.03.00 – Forestry (since 26.03.2019); Peer-reviewed scientific editions, included to an international reviewing data bases and citation systems (by 25 September 2017) (Sibirskij Lesnoj Zurnal – No. 863, included to an international scientific database AGRIS, 2014-2017).

Currently the Siberian Journal of Forest Science is prepared for inclusion in the following international refereed scientific journals databases and citation: Academic Journals Database,  Springer, Scopus, Web of Science.

In 2017 the founder of the journal increased status: it became the Federal Research Center «Krasnoyarsk Scientific CenterSiberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences» (FRC KSC SB RAS), with a corresponding re-registration of the journal. In the process of reforming Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2016 V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS was reorganized and became a part (solitary unit) of FRC KSC SB RAS. The Editorial Board maintains for the authors the principle of free of charge publication and open access to the web. 

The results of last six years allow us to be optimistic about the further development of the Siberian Journal of Forest Science and give us a hope that new 2020 year will be no less fruitful. We plan to significantly expand the circle of our readers and to strengthen the position of the journal in the scientific community internationally. 

We welcome the publication on the pages of our journal the research results of young scientists, received in the course of work on the master's and doctoral theses, with high level of novelty and originality of ideas, invite venerable researchers to submit summarizing scientific articles on various problems of forest science. 

Dear authors, we ask you to post your publications in scientific networks, profiles, personal archives, send them to your colleagues, helping them, thus, keep up with the pace of contemporary science and own relevant information. We ask you to accurately quote the journal when you refer to your articles in it or your colleagues: in Russian, give either the full name (Sibirskij Lesnoj Zurnal) or the abbreviated (Sib. J. For. Sci.), correctly give the journal number; when publishing in foreign or Russian international journals, use the standard name of the journal (Sibirskij Lesnoj Zurnal. Siberian Journal of Forest Science): at the end of each article, give correct links to both the article and the journal. All this will allow the journal to advance in the Russian ranking of scientific editions and into international bibliographic databases and citations.

We greatly thank our authors, reviewers and editorial board members for their cooperation, and our readers for the growing interest to the Siberian Journal of Forest Science. We wish you all the best, and welcome more excellent publications!