Statistical Analysis on Academic Papers of Forest Management in the Last 30 Years

By applying the principle and method of literature metrology,a statistical analysis on academic papers of forest management from 1983 to 2012 is made.The results show that: The amount of academic papers on forest management in China exhibits a periodic wave growth,with an annual publishing average at 265 papers and an average period of three years;the average number of authors per paper is 1.97,with 50.36% of the papers written by two or more authors,though productive authors are few.The ratio of funded papers is smaller;forestry science and technology journals and agriculture and forestry university journals are the major sources of forest management papers journals,the 20 types of journals which have the most amount of articles published have a low impact;the citation frequency and cited rate of forestry management papers present a trend of rising first before dropping;most cited papers mainly come from Beijing Forestry University,Northeast Forestry University,Chinese Academy of Forestry,and other agencies.