MDPI’s Journal Cluster of Ecosystem and Resource Management | Multiple Journals Receive Updated Impact Factors and Increased CiteScores

The 2025 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and CiteScore metrics were officially released in June 2026.

Multiple journals within the MDPI Ecosystem and Resource Management Journal Cluster have delivered outstanding performances, achieving significant growth in both Impact Factors and CiteScores.

Compared with the previous year, several journals in the cluster have shown notable improvement, maintaining their Q1/Q2 rankings in both JCR and Scopus. These results reflect the rising academic influence of journals.

Impact Factor growth:

Journal Name	2025 Impact Factor	Year-over-Year Growth	JCR Subject Category	JCR Quartile
Forests	3.1	+24.00%	“Forestry”	Q2
Fire	3.2	+18.52%	“Forestry”	Q1
Diversity	2.3	+9.50%	“Biodiversity Conservation”	Q2
Ecologies	2.9	+52.63%	“Ecology”	Q2

The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations received in 2025 to all publications in the journal from 2023 and 2024 by the total number of citable publications from those same years.

CiteScore growth:

Journal Name	2025 CiteScore	Year-over-Year Growth	Scopus Subject Category	CiteScore Quartile
Forests	5.4	+17.39%	“Forestry”	Q1
Fire	5.1	+30.77%	“Forestry”	Q1
Diversity	4.6	+15.00%	“Nature and Landscape Conservation”	Q1
Conservation	3.5	+9.38%	“Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)”	Q2
Ecologies	3.6	+20.00%	‘Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics”	Q2

The current CiteScores measure the average number of citations within a journal over a four-year window (2022–2025). The Scopus database provides a comprehensive suite of metrics that support informed publishing strategies, research evaluation, and enable benchmarking of journal performance.

The continued success of these journals would not be possible without the dedication and support of our editors, reviewers, authors, and readers. We sincerely thank all scholars for their ongoing support of the MDPI Ecosystem and Resource Management Cluster.

For more details, please visit the full announcement at https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/13361.