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Forest Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0015-749XVerify ISSN ↗1938-3738Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$2,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 55 / 181 | 69th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 209 / 491 | 57th | Q2 |
| Ecological Modeling | 24 / 51 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1978–1991, 1974–1976, 1970), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Forest Science is Q2 in Forestry (rank 55 of 181), Q2 in Ecology (rank 209 of 491) and Q2 in Ecological Modeling (rank 24 of 51), by CiteScore 2025.
Forest Science 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.452, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 94.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,690 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 Science is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0015-749X and its online ISSN is 1938-3738.
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.
Forest Science has an h-index of 151 and a 2-year mean of 1.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #77 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Forest Science published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 95. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (58.8%), Brazil (6.5%) and China (6.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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