Vegetation Science is currently a modern, process-based science, with both basic and applied topics, and has moved far beyond the phase of a descriptive discipline. In recent decades, Vegetation Science has demonstrated a growing capacity to be a modern science with the capacity to explain the theoretical basis of mechanisms controlling the co-existence of species in plant communities. This is also recognized by the last released Journal Citation Reports, which assigned to Applied Vegetation Science an Impact Factors of 2.548, confirming the generally increasing trend observed in the past 10 yrs.