Forestry science periodicals are the core periodicals in Chinese, and the publishing cycle is monthly. It is an academic journal sponsored by China Association for Science and Technology and China Forestry Society. It is the responsibility of the magazine to publish the latest research results representing the scientific research level of forestry in China.

Forestry science mainly publishes articles on forest cultivation, forest ecology, forest genetics and breeding, forest protection, forest manager, forest and ecological environment, biodiversity protection, wildlife protection and utilization, garden plants and ornamental gardening, economic forests, soil and water conservation and desertification control, forestry sustainable development, forest engineering, wood science and technology, chemical processing engineering of forest products, forestry economy and forestry macro-decision research.

Forestry science has been included in VIP. Com, Wanfang Database, HowNet Database, Copernicus Index, Abstracts Magazine, Chemical Abstracts (online edition), Abstracts of Agricultural and Biological Sciences Research Center, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, ProQeust Database of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Society, Zoological Records, China Literature Database of Japanese Science and Technology Promotion Agency.

According to China hownet on February 2 1, 2065438, 7972 papers published by forestry science were downloaded 1563457 times and cited 50729 times, and the comprehensive impact factor (version 20 18) was 1.753. . According to Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform "Forestry Science" published 4,494 papers, 3,854 supported papers, 75,472 cited papers, 206,777 downloaded papers, and 20 15 impact factor 1.27.