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5 January 2026
Transitions to Online-Only Publishing (from 2026)
Starting in 2026, South-east European forestry (SEEFOR) will be published exclusively online. The journal will continue to release two issues per year and will adopt an online-first publication model.
Accepted articles will appear in the Early View section in their final, peer-reviewed form and will receive full bibliographic metadata, including DOI and a unique Article ID. Articles can be cited and indexed immediately upon publication.
This transition enhances accessibility, visibility, and the speed of scientific communication while maintaining SEEFOR’s high editorial standards.
5 January 2026
Introduction of Data Papers
South-east European Forestry (SEEFOR) has introduced Data Papers as a new article category dedicated to the formal description and publication of high-quality forestry datasets.
All Data Papers undergo peer review. Detailed requirements are available in the Guidelines for Authors.
5 January 2026
Updated Copyright Policy
From 2026 onwards, authors publishing in South-east European Forestry retain copyright of their work. All articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license.
More information is available on the Open Access & Copyright page.
3 December 2020
Similarity Check
To detect and avoid plagiarism in manuscripts, all new submissions to SEEFOR journal will be checked using Similarity Check - a service provided by Crossref and powered by iThenticate.
15 January 2020
NEW Guidelines for Authors and Manuscript Template
New Guidelines for Authors can be accessed here.
New Manuscript Template (.docx) can be downloaded here.
Authors should use the Microsoft Word template to prepare their manuscript that will facilitate the formatting and manuscript preparation.
Manuscripts prepared according to old Guidelines will be considered for review until 29 February 2020.
After 1 March 2020 only manuscripts prepared using Manuscript Template and New Guidelines will be considered for review.
20 June 2019
SEEFOR recevied its first CiteScore
CiteScore 2018 = 0.82 → 49th percentile and rank 70/139 (Q3) in the 'Forestry' category
SJR 2018 = 0.268
SNIP 2019 = 0.528
See more at: CiteScore 2018
3 July 2018
SEEFOR Included in Scopus (Elsevier)
We are happy to announce that South-east European forestry journal has been accepted for coverage in Scopus (Elsevier) starting with 2017 material, which means that coverage begins with articles published in Vol 8 No 1.
For more details visit:
Scopus – Title Evaluation Tracking
3 July 2018
All Published SEEFOR Articles Covered by the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI Database)
See more at:
23 August 2017
SEEFOR Selected for the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
We are pleased to announce that SEEFOR has been selected for coverage in the Web of ScienceTM Core Collection – Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) produced by Clarivate Analytics since 2015 (previously Thomson Reuters). Coverage begins with the articles published in June 2015 (Vol 6 No 1).
This coverage will greatly increase the visibility of journal's content, while it is considered for inclusion in other Web of Science collections (e.g. Science Citation Index Expanded).
See more at:
Emerging Sources Citation Index
26 June 2017
New Editorial Board Members
We would like to welcome and introduce 15 new members of the SEEFOR editorial board.
We are grateful to them and all of our board members for their contributions to the SEEFOR journal and the forest community.
The new members are presented at New Editorial Board Members, whereas the full editorial board is available at Editorial Team.
29 April 2015
SEEFOR Included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
We are pleased to announce that SEEFOR has been included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) meaning that the visibility, impact, distribution and usage of the journal will be increased even more.
See more at:
29 April 2015
SEEFOR Started to Participate in CrossRef's Cited-by Linking Service
This service allows CrossRef member publishers to discover how their publications are being cited and to include that information into their online publication platform. Please note that citation-results might be different from other databases since not all publishers participate in Cited-by Linking service.
See more at: http://www.crossref.org/citedby/index.html
In addition to CrossRef citations, links to Google Scolar citations have been provided for each article as well.
