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Forest Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Chinese Academy of Forestry.
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ISSN 1001-1498Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Academy of Forestry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 132 / 181 | 27th | Q3 |
| Ecology | 376 / 491 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Plant Science | 428 / 541 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Forest Research is Q3 in Forestry (rank 132 of 181), Q4 in Ecology (rank 376 of 491) and Q4 in Plant Science (rank 428 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Forest Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3, 27th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.196, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 21.
Forest Research is published by Chinese Academy of Forestry. Its ISSN is 1001-1498.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Forest Research has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Forest Research published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 105. 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.
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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