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Forest Ecosystems

KeAi Communications Co. · China · Est. 1999

ISSN2197-5620

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

1.372

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.353

Total Worksi

838

Total Citationsi

16,204

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.84

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Forestry; Ecology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation.

General Information

Country / RegionChina

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1999

Annual Volume~ 109 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications838

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

OA Since2013

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

Koninklijke BibliotheekPorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

KeAi Communications Co.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2197-5620

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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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?

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Portico, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

2.4k

2019

2020

2.1k

2021

1.8k

2022

2023

125

1.1k

2024

124

429

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.

EcologyQ1

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ1

ForestryQ1

Nature and Landscape ConservationQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Forestry

Scopus Categories

ForestryNature and Landscape ConservationEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsEcology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Forest ecology and managementEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesPlant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsForest Ecology and Biodiversity StudiesForest Management and PolicyRemote Sensing and LiDAR ApplicationsTree-ring climate responsesFire effects on ecosystemsSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsRemote Sensing in Agriculture

Frequently asked questions about Forest Ecosystems

Is Forest Ecosystems a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Forest Ecosystems: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Forest Ecosystems?

Forest Ecosystems 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 3.84.

Is Forest Ecosystems indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Forest Ecosystems is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Forest Ecosystems?