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 History:

1996-2001: Revista de Silvicultură

2002 to present: Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică (RSC)

 

Editors:

–National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry ”Marin Drăcea” (named Forest Research and Management Institute up to 2015) – Station of Brașov: from 1996 to present;

–Faculty of Forestry of Brașov (Transilvania University of Brașov): 1996-2016;

– Society ”Progresul Silvic”: from 2005 to present.

 

Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică is intended to:

– promoting national and international scientific research in the field of forestry (including forestry) and complementary sciences (ecology, biology, botany, genetics, management/conservation of fauna, flora and habitats, agro-forestry, arboriculture, urban forests, remote sensing, etc.);

– technical and scientific information in the field;

– strengthening the unity of the forestry corp.

RSC provides a link between scientific research and practice, between administration and managers, between forestry progress and knowledge dissemination.

 

Journal profile

 

Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică publishes 2 issues / year, including: editorials; scientific and technical articles (research articles, bibliographic articles, observation notes, opinion articles); presentations (reviews) of books, articles, doctoral theses; aspects of national and international conferences and events; legislative changes in the field of forestry and environmental protection; history of forestry and hunting; anniversaries and commemorations of national personalities in the field; dissemination of relevant scientific projects; advertisements, forestry and environmental protection propaganda; aspects of the activity of various forestry or forestry institutions (the central authority responsible for forestry, associations of forest administrators and owners, RNP-Romsilva, Moldsilva, INCDS „Marin Drăcea”, forestry faculties, ASAS, „Forestry Progress” Society, etc.).

 

At the request of relevant research and university education institutions, RSC publishes special issues dedicated to publishing presentations from prestigious international conferences or reference topics for national forestry.

 

Who are the beneficiaries of the journal?

 

The beneficiaries of the journal may be:

  • administrators and owners of public or private forests, protected areas (national and natural parks, forest reserves, etc.), managers of hunting funds, administrators and owners of green spaces (forest parks, alignments, gardens, etc.), territorial forest inspectors, in general, engineers and other technical staff in the field;
  • administrative managers of various public or private bodies, NGOs dealing with flora and fauna;
  • researchers, teachers, students or pupils from faculties and schools specializing in forestry and environmental protection;
  • the broad mass of forest enthusiasts: naturalists, ecologists, landscape architects, specialists in environmental protection and conservation, doctors from health departments, journalists, students and pupils from ecological clubs, etc.

 

Who are the authors of the articles?

 

The authors belong to the following categories:

  • researchers willing to present the results of their own experiments in order to gain knowledge about them and apply them in production;
  • university teachers can present articles on the scientific substantiation of forestry and the presentation of global forestry trends, etc.; PhD students who address modern aspects of forestry (management and regeneration of stands, conservation of flora and fauna biodiversity, environmental protection, the broad forestry domain, etc.) can make their own research in the field known to the specialized public.
  • production specialists (forestry administration, forestry and wood processing companies, protected area managers, hunting and fishing funds), who know the situation on the ground well and can present the concrete realities and the solutions found to solve them;
  • representatives of academic forums can provide debate articles on national forestry policy, global forestry trends, etc.;
  • specialists from sectors complementary to forestry;
  • administrative managers, who present relevant aspects of the evolution of forestry practice, as well as strategic issues in the field.

 

Journal quality – Indexing

 

The scientific level is ensured by the members of the editorial board, the scientific and technical committee, and the reviewers, which includes academics (ASAS), university teachers and scientific researchers, relevant members of professional associations, from the country and abroad.

The evaluation of the articles is done according to criteria and methods established for scientific and technical journals (double-blind peer review).

RSC is included in several prestigious international databases: CABI, Index Copernicus, EBSCO, Google Scholar, which ensure very good dissemination of published articles, conferring scientific prestige on the authors of the published articles.

 

Relations with readers and authors

Would you like to respond to the issues raised by the journal, submit an article, suggest ideas for technical debates or topics for special issues of the journal? Thank you and please contact the journal’s editorial office at:

 

str. Cloșca nr. 13, 500040, Brașov, Romania,

phone: +40268-419.936

e-mail: revsilvcin@gmail.com

 

General publishing methods

All persons in the field of forestry and hunting management, administration, education or research, or persons passionate about forests and nature, who wish to share their experience, their discoveries, their reflections, to an audience interested in forests and the natural environment, are invited to take into account the following recommendations:

Revista de Silvicultură și Cinegetică publishes original articles, not simultaneously sent to other publishing houses / journals, articles that deal with modern problems, with aspects of scientific and technical novelty, developed according to international methodology, and presented in a form understandable to all members of the forestry community to which it is addressed.

By virtue of the wide audience, a priori favorable to open communication with the authors, the responsible editors will make known to the authors, with maximum efficiency, the observations of the specialists from the evaluation (review) committee. The evaluation is done according to international methods (double blind peer-review).

 

Recommendations regarding the form of articles

The article will be clear and concise, with a maximum of 10-13 pages. The title will be short and explicit, in order to be understood by non-specialist readers.

The article will be structured in chapters according to the international methodology (1. Introduction; 2. Method; 3. Results; 4. Discussions; 5. Conclusions; optional Funding/Acknowledgements; finally, the References), logically developed and with links between them.

Scientific articles will necessarily include some results of a novel nature, which will be discussed / interpreted in comparison with the latest knowledge in the field, nationally and internationally.

The references will include at least 30 publications, of which: at least 80% articles relevant to the subject (indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, CABI, Index Copernicus, EBSCO, Google Scholar etc.); at least 15% published in the last three years; at most 10% self-citations.

Citations / references will be made according to APA format.

Articles can be written in Romanian or English.

Tables, figures (diagrams, drawings, maps, graphs) and photographs are welcome. Double presentation of information, both in tables and graphs, will be avoided, the latter being preferred. Graphs and their names will be clear enough to remain legible even after being reduced to the size of a column.

Articles will have a summary in English and Romanian, comprising 10-15 lines, maximum 150-200 words and 1000-1200 characters respectively. The summary will be followed by 5 keywords. The Romanian summary of articles published in an internationally circulated language will be more extensive.

Papers are submitted to the journal’s editorial office in electronic format, at the following address: revsilvcin@gmail.com.

Please use: Word format for text (TNR 11 for text, 9 for references, abstract, figures and tables), Excel format for tables, graphs and jpg format for photos (with a minimum resolution of 200 dpi). Article title TNR 20 bold, subtitles TNR 12 bold. Initialized A4 page: Top: 2 cm, Bottom: 1 cm, Left: 1 cm, Right: 1 cm, text written on 1 line, without paragraph.

Details about the authors will be sent separately: full name, affiliation (institution), contact address (required email, optional orchid, phone) and a passport-style photo of the main author.