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African Histories and Modernities is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2634-5773Verify ISSN ↗2634-5781Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 867 / 1186 | 26th | Q3 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 561 / 692 | 18th | Q4 |
| History | 1600 / 1936 | 17th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.1.
African Histories and Modernities is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 867 of 1186), Q4 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 561 of 692) and Q4 in History (rank 1600 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025.
African Histories and Modernities is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q3, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
African Histories and Modernities is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2634-5773 and its online ISSN is 2634-5781.
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 Histories and Modernities has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #233 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
African Histories and Modernities published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 101. 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.
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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