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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. Published by African Association of Agricultural Economists.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1993-3738Verify ISSN ↗2521-9871Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: African Association of Agricultural Economists
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 197 / 253 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 623 / 755 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics is Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 197 of 253) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 623 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 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 Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.187, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics is published by African Association of Agricultural Economists. Its print ISSN is 1993-3738 and its online ISSN is 2521-9871.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B 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 Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #190 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 24. 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 40 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Kenya (12.5%), Burkina Faso (12.5%) and South Africa (12.1%).
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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