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Annals of Forest Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l..
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ISSN 1286-4560Verify ISSN ↗1297-966XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 27 / 181 | 85th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 107 / 491 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Annals of Forest Science is Q1 in Forestry (rank 27 of 181) and Q1 in Ecology (rank 107 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Annals of Forest Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.874, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 98.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Annals of Forest Science is published by Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l. Its print ISSN is 1286-4560 and its online ISSN is 1297-966X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Annals of Forest Science has an h-index of 106 and a 2-year mean of 3.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Annals of Forest Science published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 122. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from France (22.8%), Spain (7.8%) and China (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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