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Australasian Review of African Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific.
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ISSN 1447-8420Verify ISSN ↗2203-5184Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 113 / 175 | 35th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 245 / 286 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Australasian Review of African Studies is Q3 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 113 of 175) and Q4 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 245 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Australasian Review of African Studies 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 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.118, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
Australasian Review of African Studies is published by African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific. Its print ISSN is 1447-8420 and its online ISSN is 2203-5184.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Australasian Review of African Studies has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Australasian Review of African Studies published 7 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 25. 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.
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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