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Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 1996-1421Verify ISSN ↗2072-845XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety Research | 35 / 108 | 68th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 192 / 432 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies is Q2 in Safety Research (rank 35 of 108) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 192 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.506, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$636 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1996-1421 and its online ISSN is 2072-845X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 106 Scopus journals in Safety Research.
Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 85. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (45%), South Africa (24.8%) and Mauritius (4.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (3.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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