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African Renaissance is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd.
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ISSN 1744-2532Verify ISSN ↗2516-5305Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1144 / 1530 | 25th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 572 / 745 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Public Administration | 206 / 248 | 17th | Q4 |
| Development | 276 / 314 | 12th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
African Renaissance is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1144 of 1530), Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 572 of 745) and Q4 in Public Administration (rank 206 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
African Renaissance 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 0.6, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.168, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
African Renaissance is published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1744-2532 and its online ISSN is 2516-5305.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Renaissance has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #948 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
African Renaissance published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 100. 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 14 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (100%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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