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Journal of Tropical Forest Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Forest Research Institute Malaysia.
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ISSN 0128-1283Verify ISSN ↗2521-9847Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Forest Research Institute Malaysia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 106 / 181 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1988), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Tropical Forest Science is Q3 in Forestry (rank 106 of 181), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Tropical Forest Science 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.265, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 41.
Journal of Tropical Forest Science is published by Forest Research Institute Malaysia. Its print ISSN is 0128-1283 and its online ISSN is 2521-9847.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Tropical Forest Science has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #122 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Journal of Tropical Forest Science published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 72. 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 32 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (57.3%), Philippines (12.5%) and Indonesia (6.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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