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Canadian Journal of Forest Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. Published by National Research Council of Canada.
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ISSN 0045-5067Verify ISSN ↗1208-6037Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Research Council of Canada
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 52 / 181 | 71st | Q2 |
| Ecology | 190 / 491 | 61st | Q2 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 83 / 134 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974 (also 1978–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research is Q2 in Forestry (rank 52 of 181), Q2 in Ecology (rank 190 of 491) and Q3 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 83 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.574, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 144.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research is published by National Research Council of Canada. Its print ISSN is 0045-5067 and its online ISSN is 1208-6037.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research has an h-index of 194 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research published 142 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 184. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (33.6%), Canada (33.1%) and China (8.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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