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African Studies Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), DOAJ. Published by University of Florida.
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ISSN 2152-2448Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Florida
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 184 / 286 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
African Studies Quarterly is Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 184 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
African Studies Quarterly 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 0.9, quartile Q3, 35th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.180, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
African Studies Quarterly is published by University of Florida. Its ISSN is 2152-2448.
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 Studies Quarterly has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #176 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
African Studies Quarterly published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 19. 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 30 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (20%), Nigeria (16.7%) and United States (15%).
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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