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African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), DOAJ. Published by African Scholarly Science Communications Trust (ASSCAT).
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ISSN 1684-5358Verify ISSN ↗1684-5374Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: African Scholarly Science Communications Trust (ASSCAT)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 176 / 253 | 30th | Q3 |
| Development | 225 / 314 | 28th | Q3 |
| Food Science | 326 / 420 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 176 of 253), Q3 in Development (rank 225 of 314) and Q4 in Food Science (rank 326 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development 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 1.2, quartile Q3, 30th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.211, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$750 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development is published by African Scholarly Science Communications Trust (ASSCAT). Its print ISSN is 1684-5358 and its online ISSN is 1684-5374.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 1.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development published 163 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 203. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from South Africa (18.8%), Indonesia (15.6%) and Kenya (9.7%).
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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