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Journal of African American Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1559-1646Verify ISSN ↗1936-4741Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 336 / 1434 | 76th | Q1 |
| Gender Studies | 112 / 233 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 823 / 1530 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2003–2005, 1996), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of African American Studies is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 336 of 1434), Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 112 of 233) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 823 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of African American 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.221, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Journal of African American Studies is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1559-1646 and its online ISSN is 1936-4741.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of African American Studies has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #494 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of African American Studies published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 54. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (82.6%), India (5.3%) and Nigeria (3.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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