About W&FS
The Sustainable Natural Materials Journal
Open Access, Published quarterly by
The Sheridan Press
Hanover, Pennsylvania
ISSN 0735-6161
Editor: Jeffery Morrell
Associate Editor: Arijit Sinha
Subscription Pricing:
• $300/yr for single online membership, access by password and email
• $500/yr for institutional subscribers with 2–10 IP addresses
• $750/yr for institutional subscribers with 11–50 IP addresses
• $1000/yr for institutional subscribers with 51–100 IP addresses
• $1500/yr for institution subscribers with 101–200 IP addresses
• $2000/yr for institutions subscribers with over 200 IP addresses.
As of January 1, 2022, Wood and Fiber Science will be an online only, Open Access journal. There will be no print copies. Color photos/graphics will be offered at no additional cost to authors. The Open Access fee to authors will be $1800/article for SWST members and $2000/article for nonmembers. The previous five years of articles are still copyright protected (except those that are identified
as Open Access) and can be accessed only through Society membership or subscriber subscriptions. Once a previous article has reached its 5th anniversary date since publication, it becomes Open Access.
New subscriptions begin with the first issue of a new volume. All subscriptions are to be ordered through the Executive Director, Society of Wood Science and Technology.
SWST is providing readers with a means of searching all articles in Wood and Fiber Science from 1968 to present. Articles from 1968 to 2017 are available to anyone, but in order to see 2017 to 2021 articles you must have an SWST membership or subscription. SWST members and subscribers have full search capability and can download PDF versions of the papers.
If you do not have a membership or subscription, you will not be able to view the full-text pdf of the past 5 years’ articles.
For members and individual subscribers, visit the SWST website at http://www.dev.swst.org and go to Wood & Fiber Science Online. Click on either SWST Member Publication access (SWST members) or Subscriber Publication access (Institution Access). All must login with their email and password on the www.dev.swst.org site. If they have a site license, they can use their ip authentication.
As an added benefit to our current subscribers, you can now access the electronic version of every printed article along
with exciting enhancements that include:
• IP authentication for institutions (only with site license)
• Enhanced search capabilities
• Email alerting of new issues
• Custom links to your favorite titles
Additional Pricing and Payment Information…
Wood and Fiber Science, as the official publication of the Society of Wood Science and Technology, invites and publishes original papers with both professional and technical content of international interest. The research must focus on the science, processing, and manufacture of renewable biomaterials such as wood or fiber of lignocellulosic origin.
Recently, the impact factors for 2019 were released. Wood and Fiber Science’s impact factor increased to 1.104 from 0.848 in 2018. With this increase, the journal is placed in the Q2 category for Material Science, Paper and Wood. Wood and Fiber Science now ranks 10th out of 21 journals in this category.
Ethics
Ethics and Malpractice Statement, SWST Journals Wood & Fiber Science and BioProducts Business
The Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) is committed to publishing and disseminating high-quality content. We subscribe to transparent, fair, and rigorous ethical standards. Publication ethics are a shared responsibility among the Society, its editors, authors, and reviewers. We expect all stakeholders to follow the ethics and malpractice principles described below. These principles are closely aligned with COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) Core Practices document.
Editor, Editorial Board, and Society Staff Responsibilities
Editors determine if a manuscript will be published. That decision must be made based on the merits of the manuscript without consideration of the author’s race, gender, religious or political beliefs, ethnicity, or citizenship.
Confidentiality – Information about submitted manuscripts will be shared only with the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial board members, or SWST staff/contractors.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest – Editors will recuse themselves from handling submissions in which they have a real or perceived conflict of interest with the authors or entities associated with the manuscript. In the case of a conflict of interest, the manuscript will be handled by another Editor or an Editorial Board member. Editors/Editorial Board members will not use unpublished information without the explicit written consent from the authors.
Allegations of Misconduct, Complaints and/or Appeals – Any allegations of misconduct, complaints and/or appeals should be communicated directly to the Executive Director of SWST. The Executive Director will lead an investigation in cooperation with the Journal Editorial Board to assess the situation and propose proper resolution.
Reviewer Responsibilities – Reviewers assist the Editor in reaching a publishing decision by judging the quality/suitability of a manuscript. They also assist author(s) in improving the quality/suitability of a manuscript.
Qualification – Reviewers should only agree to review manuscripts that they are reasonably qualified to evaluate.
Timeliness – Reviewers should only agree to review if they can do so in a timely manner, as defined by the Editor.
Confidentiality – Reviewers must treat all manuscripts as confidential. Nothing about manuscripts should be shared with others without written approval from the Editor.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest – Reviewers will not accept review of manuscripts in which they have a real or perceived conflict of interest with the authors or entities associated with the manuscript.
Objectivity – Reviewers must maintain objectivity in their manuscript assessments and critiques should be supported by logical arguments, literature, and/or data.
Acknowledgment of sources – Reviewers should identify critical work that is not cited in the manuscript. Reviewers should identify substantial similarity or overlap (plagiarism) between the manuscript under consideration and any other published work.
Author Responsibilities – Authors must accurately report the conducted work and provide an objective discussion of significance. Manuscripts must contain sufficient detail and references to allow replication of the work. It is unethical to provide fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements.
Data access and retention – Authors must ensure accessibility of their data for at least ten years after publication (assuming participant confidentiality or legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude this).
Originality, plagiarism, and acknowledgment of sources – Authors must submit only original work that appropriately cites or quotes others.
Research involving human subjects – Authors are responsible for conducting ethical research with respect to work involving human subjects. Authors may be asked to provide documentation from their institutional review board (or equivalent body).
Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publication – Manuscripts describing the same research should not be published more than once. Concurrent submission of a manuscript is unethical and unacceptable. Manuscripts previously published as copyrighted material cannot be submitted. Manuscripts from theses/dissertations may be an exception to the previous statement.
Acknowledgment of sources – Careful and appropriate acknowledgment must be given for others’ work. Authors should cite sources that were influential in creation of the reported work.
Authorship of the paper – Only individuals who have made a significant intellectual contribution to the work should be listed as authors. Conversely, all individuals making significant contributions must be listed as authors. Other individuals can be acknowledged as contributors. The corresponding author must assure that co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest – Authors must disclose conflict of interest that might be perceived to influence their results or interpretation. All sources of financial support must be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published articles – In the event that an author discovers a significant error in their published work, they must immediately notify the Editor and cooperate to formulate a retraction/correction. If the Editor learns that a published article contains an alleged significant error, the author must cooperate with the Editor to formulate a retraction/correction or provide the Editor with evidence that there is no significant error.
Enquiries: Executive Director – execdir@dev.swst.org
Wood and Fiber Science Flyer (PDF)
Editorial Advisory Board (PDF)