Abstract:

Scientia Silvae Sinicae, sponsored by the Chinese Society of Forestry, is an acadimic periodical. The number of papers published in this periodical from 1955 to 1994 has reached up to 1970, including 30 volumes 134 issues; with about 3700 persons (times) of writers being involved. About 840 papers were quoted in Forest Research, Journal of Northeast Forestry University, Journal of Beijing Forestry University, Journal of Nanjing Forestry University and Scientia Silvae Sinicae itself from 1988 to 1994; 339 papers were gathered by Chinese Forestry Abstracts from 1988 to 1991, the rate of gathering was 92.37%. Therefore, among the forest academic periodicals throughout China, Scientia Silvae Sinicae is the only one sellected by Chinese Academic Periodical Abstracts. According to the incomplete statistics, about 91.55% and 52.82% of the papers were the major projects and won the highest prizes at national, provincial and ministry levels. About 200 copies are distributed over 33 countries and regions of the world by subscriptions and exchanges. The world famous periodical Chinese Science Abstracts、 CAB and AGRIS have been successively gathering the English abstracts of Scientia Silvae Sivicae now, Scientia Silvae Sinicae has won several important prizes bestowed by the China Association for Science and Technology, the State Science and Technology Commission and the Chinese Society of Forestry.

Key words: Scientia Silvae Sinicae, Editorial board, Editorial department, The social results, The economic results,