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African and Black Diaspora is Scopus-indexed. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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Publisher: Routledge
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Listed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2010–2022), but Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for this title — it may be newly indexed and not yet evaluated. Confirm its active status directly with Scopus before submitting.
African and Black Diaspora has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.108, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
African and Black Diaspora is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1752-8631 and its online ISSN is 1752-864X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African and Black Diaspora has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex).
African and Black Diaspora published 5 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 42. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 15 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from United States (40%), Ethiopia (13.3%) and United Kingdom (10%).
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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