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African Journal of Economic and Management Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 2040-0705Verify ISSN ↗2040-0713Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 41 / 289 | 85th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 80 / 235 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
African Journal of Economic and Management Studies is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 41 of 289) and Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 80 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.461, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
African Journal of Economic and Management Studies is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2040-0705 and its online ISSN is 2040-0713.
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.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the International Business and Area Studies field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Journal of Economic and Management Studies has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
African Journal of Economic and Management Studies published 73 papers in 2025. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Ghana (17.1%), South Africa (14.6%) and Nigeria (12.8%).
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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