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New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Scion.
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ISSN 0048-0134Verify ISSN ↗1179-5395Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Scion
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 74 / 181 | 59th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 252 / 491 | 48th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 280 / 541 | 48th | Q3 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 165 / 270 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present (also 1981, 1979), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science is Q2 in Forestry (rank 74 of 181), Q3 in Ecology (rank 252 of 491) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 280 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
New Zealand Journal of Forestry 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.344, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science is published by Scion. Its print ISSN is 0048-0134 and its online ISSN is 1179-5395.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 24. 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 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from New Zealand (41.3%), Brazil (19.9%) and Chile (5.8%).
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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