Annals of Forest Science is an international research journal devoted to multidisciplinary research for forests and wood in a changing world. It is one of the journals of the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), a public non-profit research institution.

The scope of Annals of Forest Science covers the following research areas:

• The biology of trees and associated organisms
• Forest dynamics and ecosystem processes under environmental or management drivers (ecology, genetics)
• The risks and disturbances affecting forest ecosystems (biology, ecology, economics)
• Forests as drivers of a sustainable, circular and inclusive bioeconomy (tree breeding, forest management and productivity, ecosystem services, silviculture)
• Wood sciences (relationships between wood structure and tree functioning, and between forest management or environment and wood properties).

The Editorial Board encourages

• New results, ideas or methods for measuring or monitoring any property of interest for tree biology and ecophysiology, forest ecosystem dynamics
• Model-based papers focused on the forestry wood chain, including carbon accounting investigations, ecosystem services, quantification of the relationships between forest management and the properties of end products
• Studies addressing economic and social issues of forest management under climate change and forest-based bioeconomy
• Review articles on timely topics within the scope of the journal
• Data papers presenting databases made available to a wider community
• Perspectives about important and possibly underexplored research areas, based on a brief state-o-the art and developing documented arguments about new developments and new areas of attention.

The Editorial Board does not encourage:

• Local case studies based on single stand experiments or small samples under local conditions, unless the addressed questions are innovative and timely
• Purely technological papers presenting applications without a broader scientific perspective
• Wood science papers that address purely technological, mechanical or chemical questions unless the topic is in relation to tree biology, forest ecology, or forest management.

Annals of Forest Science is devoted to the main principles of Open Science as detailed in INRAE committed to open science | INRAE

Annals of Forest Science is a full Open Access journal, and all papers will be published under a CC-BY licence. This allows a large dissemination of all published material.

Annals of Forest Science uses a double-anonymous procedure for manuscripts, except for data papers and certain article types. Reviewers do not know the identity of the authors; consequently, the main manuscript file must be fully anonymized at submission (see guidelines below).

Annals of Forest Science is very supportive of data sharing and believes data sets are important productions of research teams. We therefore publish “Data papers” and insist that the primary data associated to research papers should be deposited whenever possible in a public data—repository (see below for details).

Annals of Forest Science is a “PCI friendly journal”: preprints recommended by one of the Peer Communities in… (and particularly the Peer Community in Forest & Wood Sciences) may be rapidly published in the journal without any further Peer Review after a decision of the Editorial Board. Please refer to: PCI Forest and Wood Sciences.

We publishthe following types of articles:

• Research paper*
• Review paper*
• Data paper* 
• First reports*
• Perspective*
• Opinion**
• Commentary**
• Editorial**