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African Journal of AIDS Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1608-5906Verify ISSN ↗1727-9445Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 417 / 725 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Infectious Diseases | 236 / 361 | 34th | Q3 |
| Virology | 63 / 86 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
African Journal of AIDS Research is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 417 of 725), Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 236 of 361) and Q3 in Virology (rank 63 of 86), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of AIDS Research is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.434, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 37.
African Journal of AIDS Research is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1608-5906 and its online ISSN is 1727-9445.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Journal of AIDS Research has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 0.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #504 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
African Journal of AIDS Research published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 50. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (33.6%), United States (16.9%) and Nigeria (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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