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Forest Ecosystems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2095-6355Verify ISSN ↗2197-5620Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 50 / 736 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 19 / 231 | 91st | Q1 |
| Forestry | 15 / 181 | 91st | Q1 |
| Ecology | 51 / 491 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.3.
Forest Ecosystems is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 50 of 736), Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 19 of 231) and Q1 in Forestry (rank 15 of 181), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Forest Ecosystems 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 8.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.372, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,000 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.
Forest Ecosystems is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2095-6355 and its online ISSN is 2197-5620.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Forest Ecosystems has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 4.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Forest Ecosystems published 124 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 125. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (46%), United States (8.8%) and Canada (4.7%).
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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