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African Diaspora is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1872-5457Verify ISSN ↗1872-5465Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 353 / 1936 | 81st | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 411 / 1434 | 71st | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 375 / 1137 | 66th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 455 / 1221 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 929 / 1530 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2018–2024, 2008–2016), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
African Diaspora is Q1 in History (rank 353 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 411 of 1434) and Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 375 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
African Diaspora 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.132, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
African Diaspora is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1872-5457 and its online ISSN is 1872-5465.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Diaspora has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
African Diaspora published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 16. 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 48 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Netherlands (15.6%), Italy (12.5%) and Belgium (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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