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International Journal of African Historical Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. Published by Boston University.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0361-7882Verify ISSN ↗2326-3016Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Boston University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 730 / 1936 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 732 / 1434 | 48th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1204 / 1530 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1985–1989, 1979–1981, 1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
International Journal of African Historical Studies is Q2 in History (rank 730 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 732 of 1434) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1204 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of African Historical Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.137, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
International Journal of African Historical Studies is published by Boston University. Its print ISSN is 0361-7882 and its online ISSN is 2326-3016.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of African Historical Studies has an h-index of 173 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
International Journal of African Historical Studies published 1 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 74. 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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