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Tree-Ring Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Tree Ring Society.
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ISSN 1536-1098Verify ISSN ↗2162-4585Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tree Ring Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 107 / 181 | 41st | Q3 |
| Geology | 223 / 333 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Paleontology | 84 / 121 | 30th | Q3 |
| Atmospheric Science | 130 / 160 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Tree-Ring Research is Q3 in Forestry (rank 107 of 181), Q3 in Geology (rank 223 of 333) and Q3 in Paleontology (rank 84 of 121), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Tree-Ring Research 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 0.390, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
Tree-Ring Research is published by Tree Ring Society. Its print ISSN is 1536-1098 and its online ISSN is 2162-4585.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tree-Ring Research has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #92 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Tree-Ring Research published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 19. 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 48 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.3%), Germany (6.7%) and Mexico (5.2%).
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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