Journal of Forestry Research

Journal of Forestry Research is published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg and is in Zone 1 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Forest ecology and management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, together about 33.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Global and Planetary Change. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Announcement We are pleased to announce that Journal of Forestry Research will become a fully open access (OA) on 1 January 2027. As a result, all submissions received from 11 August 2026 are subject to an article publication charge (APC) if accepted and published in the journal (unless a waiver is applied). Please see our FAQs which can be found at the bottom of this page for more information on APCs, funding options, waivers and the journal's transition to fully open access. Journal of Forestry Research (JFR) publishes scientific articles related to forestry for a broad range of international scientists, forest managers and practitioners. The scope of the journal covers the following 20 subjects: Tree genetics and tree breeding Tree physiology Silviculture Forest soil Forest hydrology Forest ecology Forest adaptation to climate change Restoration ecology Urban forestry Forest management Forest biometrics Forest RS, GIS, and modeling Forest health monitoring and assessment Forest fire Forest resource conservation Forest entomology and pathology Forest biomass, carbon, and bioenergy Forest engineering Wood science and biomaterials Wildlife ecology and management Although JFR is a comprehensive academic journal covering nearly all subjects of forestry, this journal does not publish papers related to forest economics, medicinal plants, fruit trees, landscape architecture, horticulture, aquatic organisms, technologies for extractions, the composition of wood, wood products technology and pulp processing, and manufacturing methods, as well as other subjects addressed in detail by other journals. The journal welcomes review articles, original papers, and short communications with high academic quality. The journal seeks manuscripts reporting breakthroughs in knowledge, approaches or techniques, and understanding across a broad spectrum of forests and forestry. All papers are subject to peer review. Submissions are judged on their originality, the importance of their subject matter, and their clarity, accuracy, and quality of scientific writing.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): FORESTRY

Editor-in-chief Wenlong SongPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 50 in mainland China (about 65%); most named Mainland China 50, United States 6, Canada 3, Australia 2, Sweden 2 (77 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

EI CompendexCASCAB AbstractsPublisher website

Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, AGRICOLA, Astrophysics Data System, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS

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Impact

Impact factor

4.09LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

8.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.95LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.22LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

20LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

69OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,613OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.96OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

14.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

38.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

150LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

2,025Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

809,200Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Country or region

PEOPLES R CHINA

Language

English

Frequency

6 issues per year

Founded

1990

ISSN

1007-662X

Electronic ISSN

1993-0607

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website