It is recognized scientific activities related to wood protection has been scaled back in worldwide recently. In order to overcome this situation, Japan Wood Protection Association (JWPA), one of academic societies had taken steps to support the activation of scientific research through the improvement of own annual meeting and journal. The specific measures were the setup of student membership, establishment of student poster award, the registration to the “J-STAGE” as an electronic journal platform in Japan for open access, and so on. Analysis of JWPA meetings and journals revealed that 1) increased numbers of presentations especially by students, 2) increased online access to the journal through J-STAGE, and 3) the positive relation between the title of articles and social backgrounds in some extent. JWPA, however does not cover much about some related fields such as durability of mid-to-high-rise wooden architecture, wood use in civil engineering field, and fire safety of buildings using wooden materials. Collaboration with related academic societies such as Architectural Institute of Japan, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, and Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering will be indispensable and important for more activation of scientific research on wood protection.

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