Vegetation Classification and Survey in the third year

By

Dengler, Jürgen
Biurrun, Idoia
Jansen, Florian
Willner, Wolfgang

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-1-13

Original Publication

Vegetation classification and survey

Volume

4

Pages

1--6

Subjects

article processing charge , bibliometry , CiteScore , Editorial Review Board , Editors’ Award , gold open access , International Association for Vegetation Science ( , publication trend , Scientific journal , Scopus , Vegetation classification , Web of Science

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers 2020-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.100394

 

Abstract

We report on the completed third volume of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS). VCS has been included in the Scopus bibliometric database and will receive its first CiteSore in mid-2023. We announce the 2022 Editors’ Award for a paper selected from the four papers nominated for Editors’ Choice during 2022. We selected Liu et al. (2022; Vegetation Classification and Survey 3: 121–144) for the Editors’ Award. This author team developed a comprehensive hierarchical classification system for the steppe vegetation over China. We present five Special Collections (two concluded and three ongoing) which form a backbone for VCS. Apart from Research Papers, Long and Short Database Reports were the prevailing article category in 2022. By contrast, there were no VCS Methods paper in 2022, and thus we encourage submissions particularly in this category. Finally, we welcome new members to the Editorial Board and open a call for free applications for our Editorial Review Board or as a Linguistic Editor.<br> Abbreviations: APC = article processing charge; IAVS = International Association for Vegetation Science; VCS = Vegetation Classification and Survey.