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Current Forestry Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2198-6436Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 10 / 736 | 98th | Q1 |
| Forestry | 4 / 181 | 98th | Q1 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 6 / 231 | 97th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 13 / 491 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.2.
Current Forestry Reports is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 10 of 736), Q1 in Forestry (rank 4 of 181) and Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 6 of 231), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Current Forestry Reports 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 16.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.200, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,990 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.
Current Forestry Reports is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its ISSN is 2198-6436.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Current Forestry Reports has an h-index of 67 and a 2-year mean of 15.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Current Forestry Reports published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 32. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Canada (10.4%), United States (9.1%) and Italy (6.7%).
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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