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Trees, Forests and People is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2666-7193Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 28 / 181 | 84th | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 45 / 283 | 84th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 143 / 432 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Trees, Forests and People is Q1 in Forestry (rank 28 of 181), Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 45 of 283) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 143 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Trees, Forests and People is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.860, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,680 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.
Trees, Forests and People is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2666-7193.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Trees, Forests and People has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 3.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
Trees, Forests and People published 367 papers in 2025. 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 84 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (17.1%), United States (9%) and Ethiopia (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (2 per 1,000 papers). 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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