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African Historical Review is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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ISSN 1753-2523Verify ISSN ↗1753-2531Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1021 / 1936 | 47th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 916 / 1434 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 2010–2020), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
African Historical Review is Q3 in History (rank 1021 of 1936) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 916 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
African Historical Review 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.124, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
African Historical Review is published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Its print ISSN is 1753-2523 and its online ISSN is 1753-2531.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Historical Review has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #745 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
African Historical Review published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 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 39 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (37.2%), Nigeria (15%) and United States (6%).
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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