Forests

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · Switzerland · Est. 1979

ISSN1999-4907eISSN1999-4907

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2024-10-21). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.694

H-Indexi

111

SNIPi

0.859

Total Worksi

15,883

Total Citationsi

209,752

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.83

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Forestry.

General Information

Country / RegionSwitzerland

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1979

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications15,883

Publisher OrgMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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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

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1999-4907 / 1999-4907

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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

1.2k

31k

2019

1.4k

31k

2020

1.8k

29k

2021

2.2k

27k

2022

2.5k

23k

2023

2.2k

13k

2024

1.9k

4.3k

2025

962

254

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 ecology and managementPlant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsForest Management and PolicyEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesFire effects on ecosystemsRemote Sensing and LiDAR ApplicationsForest Ecology and Biodiversity StudiesSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsLand Use and Ecosystem ServicesRemote Sensing in Agriculture

Frequently asked questions about Forests

Is Forests a predatory journal?

Forests was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2024-10-21). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Forests?

Forests 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 2.83.

Is Forests indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Forests is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Forests?