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International Forestry Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Commonwealth Forestry Association.
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ISSN 1465-5489Verify ISSN ↗2053-7778Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Commonwealth Forestry Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 62 / 181 | 66th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 365 / 876 | 58th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 222 / 491 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
International Forestry Review is Q2 in Forestry (rank 62 of 181), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 365 of 876) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 222 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
International Forestry Review 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.393, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 62.
International Forestry Review is published by Commonwealth Forestry Association. Its print ISSN is 1465-5489 and its online ISSN is 2053-7778.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Forestry Review has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
International Forestry Review published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 90. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (9.3%), Türkiye (7.4%) and China (7.2%).
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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