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African Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0002-0184Verify ISSN ↗1469-2872Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 216 / 1936 | 88th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 325 / 1434 | 77th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 197 / 536 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 386 / 745 | 48th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 810 / 1530 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1942–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
African Studies is Q1 in History (rank 216 of 1936), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 325 of 1434) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 197 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
African Studies is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.251, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 36.
African Studies is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0002-0184 and its online ISSN is 1469-2872.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Studies has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #178 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
African Studies published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 84. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (34.8%), United States (8.7%) and Ghana (8.5%).
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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