Scopus subject area
Best Forestry journals
179 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Forestry. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 45 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.
| # | Journal | CiteScore | Percentile | Quartile | WoS | ABDC | OA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts | 26.1 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 2 | Information Processing in Agriculture | 21.1 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 3 | Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 17.3 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 4 | Current Forestry Reports | 16.2 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 5 | Land Use Policy | 14 | 97th | Q1 | SSCI | A | No |
| 6 | Urban Forestry and Urban Greening | 11.3 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 7 | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 11.1 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 8 | Applied Geography | 10 | 95th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 9 | GCB Bioenergy | 9 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 10 | Biomass and Bioenergy | 8.9 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 11 | ES Food and Agroforestry | 8.8 | 94th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 12 | Food and Energy Security | 8.7 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 13 | Forestry | 8.5 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 14 | Journal of Forestry Research | 8.3 | 92nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 15 | Forest Ecosystems | 8.3 | 91st | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 16 | Fire Ecology | 8.1 | 91st | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 17 | Forest Policy and Economics | 7.6 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | B | No |
| 18 | Forest Ecology and Management | 7.5 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 19 | Forestry Research | 7.3 | 89th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 20 | Frontiers in Forests and Global Change | 7.2 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 21 | Plants People Planet | 6.9 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 22 | Biomass (Switzerland) | 6.7 | 88th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 23 | Science of Remote Sensing | 6.5 | 87th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 24 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences | 6 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 25 | International Journal of Wildland Fire | 5.6 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 26 | Annals of Forest Science | 5.4 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 27 | Forests | 5.4 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 28 | Trees, Forests and People | 5.4 | 84th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 29 | Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry | 5.3 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 30 | Wood Science and Technology | 5.3 | 83rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 31 | European Journal of Forest Research | 5.1 | 83rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 32 | Fire | 5.1 | 82nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 33 | Forest and Society | 4.6 | 82nd | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 34 | Advances in Bamboo Science | 4.6 | 81st | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 35 | Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering | 4.5 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 36 | Trees - Structure and Function | 4.5 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 37 | European Journal of Wood and Wood Products | 4.4 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 38 | Journal of Wood Science | 4.4 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 39 | New Forests | 4.2 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 40 | Small-scale Forestry | 4.2 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 41 | Journal of Sustainable Forestry | 4.2 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 42 | Agroforestry Systems | 4 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 43 | IAWA Journal | 4 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 44 | Agricultural and Forest Entomology | 3.9 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 45 | International Journal of Forest Engineering | 3.8 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 46 | Journal of Forestry | 3.8 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 47 | IForest | 3.6 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 48 | Forest Science and Technology | 3.5 | 73rd | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 49 | Journal of Forestry Engineering | 3.5 | 73rd | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 50 | Silva Fennica | 3.5 | 72nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 51 | Tree Genetics and Genomes | 3.4 | 72nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 52 | Canadian Journal of Forest Research | 3.3 | 71st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 53 | Dendrobiology | 3.1 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 54 | International Journal of Forestry Research | 3.1 | 70th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 55 | Forest Science | 3.1 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 56 | Central European Forestry Journal | 3 | 69th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 57 | Forests Trees and Livelihoods | 3 | 68th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 58 | Annals of Forest Research | 2.9 | 68th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 59 | Journal of Forest Research | 2.9 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 60 | Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research | 2.9 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 61 | Fennia | 2.9 | 66th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 62 | International Forestry Review | 2.8 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 63 | Jurnal Sylva Lestari | 2.8 | 65th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 64 | Journal of the ASABE | 2.7 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 65 | Ecology, Economy and Society | 2.7 | 63rd | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 66 | Vegetation Ecology and Diversity | 2.7 | 63rd | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 67 | Folia Oecologica | 2.6 | 62nd | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 68 | Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnologia | 2.6 | 62nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 69 | Agriculture and Forestry | 2.5 | 61st | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 70 | Journal of Agrometeorology | 2.5 | 61st | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 71 | International Wood Products Journal | 2.4 | 60th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 72 | Journal of Forest Science | 2.4 | 59th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 73 | New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science | 2.4 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 74 | California Agriculture | 2.3 | 58th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 75 | Paper and Biomaterials | 2.3 | 58th | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 76 | Forest Products Journal | 2.3 | 57th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 77 | Wood Research | 2.3 | 57th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 78 | Forest Pathology | 2.2 | 56th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 79 | Nordic Pulp and Paper Research Journal | 2.2 | 56th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 80 | Australian Forestry | 2.2 | 55th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 81 | Forestist | 2.2 | 54th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 82 | Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics | 2.2 | 54th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 83 | Chinese Journal of Agrometeorology | 2.2 | 53rd | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 84 | Arboriculture and Urban Forestry | 2.1 | 53rd | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 85 | Journal of the Indian Academy of Wood Science | 1.9 | 52nd | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 86 | Southern Forests | 1.9 | 52nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 87 | Bois et Forets des Tropiques | 1.9 | 51st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 88 | Hacquetia | 1.9 | 51st | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 89 | Annals of Silvicultural Research | 1.9 | 50th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 90 | Italian Journal of Agrometeorology | 1.9 | 50th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 91 | Forestry Chronicle | 1.8 | 49th | Q3 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 92 | Acta Facultatis Xylologiae Zvolen | 1.8 | 48th | Q3 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 93 | Cerne | 1.8 | 48th | Q3 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 94 | BioProducts Business | 1.8 | 47th | Q3 | – | – | Yes |
| 95 | Drvna Industrija | 1.8 | 47th | Q3 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 96 | Beijing Linye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Beijing Forestry University | 1.8 | 46th | Q3 | – | – | No |
| 97 | Silvae Genetica | 1.7 | 46th | Q3 | SCIE | – | No |
| 98 | Asian Journal of Mycology | 1.7 | 45th | Q3 | – | – | No |
| 99 | Forest Systems | 1.6 | 45th | Q3 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 100 | Ciencia Florestal | 1.6 | 44th | Q3 | SCIE | – | Yes |
Rank and percentile are within the Forestry Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.