iForest is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal published by the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF).

The journal encompasses a broad range of research aspects concerning forest science: forest ecology, biodiversity/genetics and ecophysiology, silviculture, forest inventory and planning, forest protection and monitoring, forest harvesting, landscape ecology, forest history, wood technology.

iForest is freely and universally accessible online. It is covered in Elsevier Products (Scopus™, Embase™, etc), in the directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ™), and is a member of the Crossref consortium™.

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The editorial board of iForest/Forest@ has implemented an on-line form to submit manuscripts, guaranteeing shorter processing time, real-time manuscript tracking and the possibility to follow the whole editorial process by entering authors-restricted pages.

 Manuscript Submission

Please read carefully the Instructions for Authors before submission and format the manuscript accordingly. You may also like to read the Publishing Policy of the journal.

iForest will consider only original manuscripts that have not been published elsewhere and are not under consideration by another journal.

No articles processing charge is applied.

iForest aims to a rapid publication of submitted material in the following sections:

• Research articles:
  original research works that present experimental results, conceptual advances, innovations in research techniques and methods.
• Review articles:
  papers that present the state of the art in a particular field, including metanalysis of published data set.
• Short communications:
  original research articles intended as brief reports of findings.
• Progress reports:
  a self-review of the author's achievements related to a specific topic rather than a survey of literature publications.
• Commentaries:
  persuasive comments on recently published research results.

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