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Islamic Africa is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0803-0685Verify ISSN ↗2154-0993Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 74 / 1186 | 93rd | Q1 |
| History | 270 / 1936 | 86th | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 124 / 760 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 368 / 1434 | 74th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 869 / 1530 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2024 (also 2010–2019), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Islamic Africa is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 74 of 1186), Q1 in History (rank 270 of 1936) and Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 124 of 760), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Islamic Africa 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
Islamic Africa is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0803-0685 and its online ISSN is 2154-0993.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Islamic Africa has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #96 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Islamic Africa published 2 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 27. 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 49 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from United States (44.6%), Germany (15%) and Netherlands (7.1%).
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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