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Silva Fennica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Finnish Society of Forest Science.
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ISSN 0037-5330Verify ISSN ↗2242-4075Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Finnish Society of Forest Science
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 50 / 181 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Ecological Modeling | 20 / 51 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present (also 1978, 1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Silva Fennica is Q2 in Forestry (rank 50 of 181) and Q2 in Ecological Modeling (rank 20 of 51), by CiteScore 2025.
Silva Fennica 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.636, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$862 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Silva Fennica is published by Finnish Society of Forest Science. Its print ISSN is 0037-5330 and its online ISSN is 2242-4075.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Silva Fennica has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 2.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Silva Fennica published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 62. 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 81 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Finland (55.8%), Norway (12%) and Sweden (11.6%). 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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