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Forest Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2158-0103Verify ISSN ↗2158-0715Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 48 / 181 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 205 / 432 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Forest Science and Technology is Q2 in Forestry (rank 48 of 181) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 205 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Forest Science and Technology is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.383, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,024 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 and Technology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2158-0103 and its online ISSN is 2158-0715.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Forest Science and Technology has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Forest Science and Technology published 60 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (32.6%), South Korea (10.6%) and Ethiopia (7.7%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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