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African Economic History is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), ABDC C, WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Wisconsin Press.
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ISSN 0145-2258Verify ISSN ↗2163-9108Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 526 / 1936 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 671 / 755 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1981, 1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
African Economic History is Q2 in History (rank 526 of 1936) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 671 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
African Economic History is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.193, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
African Economic History is published by University of Wisconsin Press. Its print ISSN is 0145-2258 and its online ISSN is 2163-9108.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Economic History has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #745 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
African Economic History published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 30. 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 58 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (24.1%), United Kingdom (14.7%) and South Africa (14.7%).
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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