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Afrika Focus is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0772-084XVerify ISSN ↗2031-356XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 1051 / 1434 | 26th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 659 / 744 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1985–2001), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Afrika Focus is Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 1051 of 1434) and Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 659 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Afrika Focus 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 26th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.108, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 17.
Afrika Focus is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0772-084X and its online ISSN is 2031-356X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Afrika Focus has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #506 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Afrika Focus published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 63. 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 32 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Belgium (37.5%), Nigeria (15.6%) and South Africa (11.5%).
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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