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Forest Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (CSIC-INIA).
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ISSN 2171-5068Verify ISSN ↗2171-9845Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (CSIC-INIA)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 100 / 181 | 45th | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 480 / 736 | 34th | Q3 |
| Soil Science | 114 / 167 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Forest Systems is Q3 in Forestry (rank 100 of 181), Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 480 of 736) and Q3 in Soil Science (rank 114 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Forest Systems 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.298, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
Forest Systems is published by Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (CSIC-INIA). Its print ISSN is 2171-5068 and its online ISSN is 2171-9845.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Forest Systems has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Forest Systems published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 48. 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 78 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Spain (23.8%), Mexico (14.1%) and Brazil (13.5%).
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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