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African Journal of Urology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SpringerOpen.
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ISSN 1110-5704Verify ISSN ↗1961-9987Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SpringerOpen
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urology | 90 / 123 | 27th | Q3 |
| Reproductive Medicine | 77 / 99 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 286 / 361 | 20th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 593 / 725 | 18th | Q4 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 205 / 250 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
African Journal of Urology is Q3 in Urology (rank 90 of 123), Q4 in Reproductive Medicine (rank 77 of 99) and Q4 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 286 of 361), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
African Journal of Urology 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 27th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.228, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
African Journal of Urology is published by SpringerOpen. Its print ISSN is 1110-5704 and its online ISSN is 1961-9987.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
African Journal of Urology has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #73 of 123 Scopus journals in Urology.
African Journal of Urology published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 173. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Egypt (18.4%), India (14.7%) and Türkiye (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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