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Small-scale Forestry

Springer Science and Business Media B.V. · Netherlands · Est. 2006

ISSN1873-7617eISSN1873-7854

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.516

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.746

Total Worksi

639

Total Citationsi

10,799

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.72

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Small-scale Forestry is an international journal focused on pure and applied research into small-scale forestry. Provides a platform for empirical, theoretical, modeling, and methodological papers. Explores the social, economic and technical dimensions of farm, family, non-industrial and community forestry. Originated as Small-scale Forest Economics, Management and Policy in 2002. Particularly useful to the global research community, policy makers, and forest managers.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2006

Annual Volume~ 26 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications639

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Science and Business Media B.V.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1873-7617 / 1873-7854

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

199

2019

426

2020

308

2021

354

2022

169

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

ForestryQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Forestry

Scopus Categories

Forestry

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Forest Management and PolicyConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementEconomic and Environmental ValuationForest Biomass Utilization and ManagementBioenergy crop production and managementGlobal trade, sustainability, and social impactForest ecology and managementAfrican Botany and Ecology StudiesRangeland Management and Livestock EcologyLand Use and Ecosystem Services

Frequently asked questions about Small-scale Forestry

Is Small-scale Forestry a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Small-scale Forestry: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Small-scale Forestry?

Small-scale Forestry is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.72.

Is Small-scale Forestry indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Small-scale Forestry is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.