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International Journal of Wildland Fire is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE. Published by CSIRO Publishing.
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ISSN 1049-8001Verify ISSN ↗1448-5516Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 25 / 181 | 86th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 97 / 491 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
International Journal of Wildland Fire is Q1 in Forestry (rank 25 of 181) and Q1 in Ecology (rank 97 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Wildland Fire 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.785, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 121.
International Journal of Wildland Fire is published by CSIRO Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1049-8001 and its online ISSN is 1448-5516.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Wildland Fire has an h-index of 144 and a 2-year mean of 3.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
International Journal of Wildland Fire published 122 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 143. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (37.6%), Australia (22.5%) and Canada (10.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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