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Africa Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0974-4053Verify ISSN ↗0974-4061Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 137 / 1936 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 327 / 745 | 56th | Q2 |
| Development | 190 / 314 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
Africa Review is Q1 in History (rank 137 of 1936), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 327 of 745) and Q3 in Development (rank 190 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Africa Review is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.201, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
Africa Review is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0974-4053 and its online ISSN is 0974-4061.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Africa Review has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #384 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Africa Review published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 35. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (27.3%), South Africa (19.2%) and Nigeria (11.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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