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Journal of Forest Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 1104-6899Verify ISSN ↗1618-1530Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 157 / 283 | 44th | Q3 |
| Forestry | 109 / 181 | 40th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 528 / 876 | 39th | Q3 |
| Ecology | 328 / 491 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Forest Economics is Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 157 of 283), Q3 in Forestry (rank 109 of 181) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 528 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Forest Economics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.274, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 47.
Journal of Forest Economics is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 1104-6899 and its online ISSN is 1618-1530.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Forest Economics has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #216 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Journal of Forest Economics published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 55. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (28.9%), United States (12.6%) and Finland (6.4%).
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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