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Forest Products Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Forest Products Society.
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ISSN 0015-7473Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Forest Products Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 77 / 181 | 57th | Q2 |
| Plant Science | 286 / 541 | 47th | Q3 |
| Materials Science (all) | 320 / 475 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1993, 1968–1989), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Forest Products Journal is Q2 in Forestry (rank 77 of 181), Q3 in Plant Science (rank 286 of 541) and Q3 in Materials Science (all) (rank 320 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Forest Products Journal 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.293, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 63.
Forest Products Journal is published by Forest Products Society. Its ISSN is 0015-7473.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Forest Products Journal has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #74 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Forest Products Journal published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 65. 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 71 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (43.7%), China (30.3%) and Türkiye (4.2%).
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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