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African and Asian Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SSCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1569-2094Verify ISSN ↗1569-2108Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 395 / 1936 | 79th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 962 / 1530 | 37th | Q3 |
| Development | 248 / 314 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1993–1994, 1990–1991, 1984–1988, 1981–1982, 1975–1979, 1971, 1966), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
African and Asian Studies is Q1 in History (rank 395 of 1936), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 962 of 1530) and Q4 in Development (rank 248 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
African and Asian Studies 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.201, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
African and Asian Studies is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1569-2094 and its online ISSN is 1569-2108.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African and Asian Studies has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #518 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
African and Asian Studies published 71 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (22.9%), Puerto Rico (18.8%) and United States (18.2%).
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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