Journal profile · Forestry
TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
ISSN 0931-1890 · eISSN 1432-2285 · Springer Berlin Heidelberg · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1986
TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: CAS Zone 3 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.31; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,690; median 172 days to acceptance (102 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 115 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION is published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg and is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses and Forest ecology and management, together about 44.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Trees: Structure and Function publishes original articles on the physiology, biochemistry, functional genomics, functional anatomy, structure and ecology of trees and other woody plants. Also presented are articles concerned with pathology and technological problems, when they contribute to the basic understanding of structure and function of trees. In addition to original articles and short communications, the journal publishes reviews on selected topics concerning the structure and function of trees. Trees - Structure and Function is keen to publish reviews and commentaries on themes related to the scope of the journal. Before submitting a manuscript, please contact the Reviews Editor Gianluca Piovesan (piovesan@unitus.it) sending a short summary of the idea. The Editors-in-Chief of Trees - Structure and Function may pick selected articles and allocate them to particular topics (like tree rings, drought stress, mycorrhiza, etc.). These tagged articles will be brought together on SpringerLink in topical collections, easily accessible online as a service for our readers. Articles of such online collections will be processed and published in regular issues just like all other articles. Fields of interest: Botany, Forestry, Horticulture, Ecology
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Forestry
Editor-in-chief Francisco M. CánovasPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 6%); most named Germany 9, Spain 8, United States 5, Japan 5, Italy 5 (53 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsEnvironmental Science21.1%
- Tree-ring climate responsesEarth and Planetary Sciences12.1%
- Forest ecology and managementEnvironmental Science11.7%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesEnvironmental Science6.2%
- Tree Root and Stability StudiesEngineering5.8%
- Plant responses to elevated CO2Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.6%
- Plant Stress Responses and ToleranceAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.4%
- Horticultural and Viticultural ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences2.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Forestry | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Forestry | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Forestry | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexCASCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, AGRICOLA, Astrophysics Data System, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.31LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.62LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.88LetPub ·
- h-index
- 77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 129OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,740OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.13OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 25.4%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 115LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 465,600Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 4,016 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 124 | 61 | 31 |
| 2025 | 115 | 47 | 189 |
| 2024 | 120 | 42 | 545 |
| 2023 | 91 | 34 | 705 |
| 2022 | 131 | 34 | 1,163 |
| 2021 | 187 | 55 | 2,553 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
172 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 118 days – 231 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 17 days (102 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 193 days
- Sample
- 102 articles with submission and acceptance dates (266 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 3 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,690 / EUR 2,890 / GBP 2,490 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted6
- brief reportTrees- Structure and Function accepts original articles, brief reports and reviews. Reviews should not exceed 25 doubled-spaced pages, including tables, figures…Length not stated
- brief reportsTrees- Structure and Function accepts original articles, brief reports and reviews.Length not stated
- original articleTrees- Structure and Function accepts original articles, brief reports and reviews. Reviews should not exceed 25 doubled-spaced pages, including tables, figures…Length not stated
- original articlesTrees- Structure and Function accepts original articles, brief reports and reviews.Length not stated
- reviewTrees- Structure and Function accepts original articles, brief reports and reviews. Reviews should not exceed 25 doubled-spaced pages, including tables, figures…Length not stated
- reviewsTrees- Structure and Function accepts original articles, brief reports and reviews.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use Generative AI Images
Please check Springer’s policy on generative AI images and make sure your work adheres to the principles described therein. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Author Contribution Statement
Originality and exclusivity of submission required Model summary
Authors must provide a short description of the contributions made by each listed author (please use initials). This will be published in a separate section in front of the Acknowledgments. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosures and declarations
All authors are requested to include information regarding sources of funding, financial or non-financial interests, study-specific approval by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans and/or animals, informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved animals (as appropriate). The decision whether such …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Availability
Data and materials must support claims Model summary
This journal encourages authors to provide an optional statement of data availability in their article. Data Availability Statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found, including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Data availability statements can also indicate whether …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Compliance with Ethical Standards
COPE member journal Model summary
To ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Permissions required for previously published material Model summary
Open Choice articles do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. In opting for open access, the author(s) agree to publish the article under a Creative Commons license. Details of the OA licences offered to authors can be found on the individual journal website, in the journal's How to publish with us guide. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Trees, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Reviewer suggestions and exclusions allowed Model summary
Authors are welcome to suggest suitable reviewers and/or request the exclusion of certain individuals when they submit their manuscripts.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1986
- ISSN
- 0931-1890
- Electronic ISSN
- 1432-2285
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
What CAS zone is TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Forestry. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.31; CiteScore 4.5, h-index 129.
How long does peer review take at TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION?
Based on the dates recorded on 102 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 172 days (interquartile range 118–231 days); authors report an average review time of about 3 months; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–250 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: Author–date; Suggested reviewers: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION based?
Of the 53 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 3 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Germany (9), Spain (8) and United States (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, CAS, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION open access, and what is the APC?
TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,690.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .