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IForest is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by SISEF - Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology.
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ISSN 1971-7458Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SISEF - Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 47 / 181 | 74th | Q2 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 78 / 231 | 66th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 173 / 491 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
IForest is Q2 in Forestry (rank 47 of 181), Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 78 of 231) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 173 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
IForest 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.513, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
IForest is published by SISEF - Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology. Its ISSN is 1971-7458.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IForest has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 2.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
IForest published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 101. 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 55 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (24.5%), Italy (19.8%) and Mexico (9.1%).
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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