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Africa Spectrum is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4), ABDC C, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Deutsches Institut für Afrika-Forschung.
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ISSN 0002-0397Verify ISSN ↗1868-6869Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Deutsches Institut für Afrika-Forschung
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 102 / 1434 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 162 / 745 | 78th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 362 / 1530 | 76th | Q1 |
| Development | 111 / 314 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 1983–1984), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Africa Spectrum is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 102 of 1434), Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 162 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 362 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Africa Spectrum is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.494, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Africa Spectrum is published by Deutsches Institut für Afrika-Forschung. Its print ISSN is 0002-0397 and its online ISSN is 1868-6869.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Africa Spectrum has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 1.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Africa Spectrum published 37 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (13.5%), United Kingdom (11.3%) and South Africa (9.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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