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Ghana Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Wisconsin Press.
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ISSN 1536-5514Verify ISSN ↗2333-7168Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1027 / 1936 | 46th | Q3 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 414 / 692 | 40th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 751 / 1137 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2022–2024, 2019–2020), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Ghana Studies is Q3 in History (rank 1027 of 1936), Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 414 of 692) and Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 751 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025.
Ghana Studies 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 0.3, quartile Q3, 46th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 3.
Ghana Studies is published by University of Wisconsin Press. Its print ISSN is 1536-5514 and its online ISSN is 2333-7168.
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.
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.
Ghana Studies has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #808 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Ghana Studies published 27 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 36. 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 58 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (41.1%), Ghana (31%) and United Kingdom (12.1%).
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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