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African Journal of Social Work is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), DOAJ. Published by National Association of Social Workers.
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ISSN 2409-5605Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Association of Social Workers
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 161 / 286 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 276 / 387 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
African Journal of Social Work is Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 161 of 286) and Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 276 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Social Work 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, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.186, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
African Journal of Social Work is published by National Association of Social Workers. Its ISSN is 2409-5605.
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 Social Work has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
African Journal of Social Work published 48 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 86 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (39.8%), Zimbabwe (6.5%) and Australia (6.3%).
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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