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Journal of African Cinemas is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 1754-9221Verify ISSN ↗1754-923XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 482 / 697 | 30th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1191 / 1434 | 16th | Q4 |
| Communication | 509 / 541 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal of African Cinemas is Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 482 of 697), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1191 of 1434) and Q4 in Communication (rank 509 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of African Cinemas 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.112, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Journal of African Cinemas is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1754-9221 and its online ISSN is 1754-923X.
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 Cinemas has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #333 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Journal of African Cinemas published 39 papers in 2025. 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (33%), United States (25%) and Canada (8.5%).
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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