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Journal of African Cultural Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1369-6815Verify ISSN ↗1469-9346Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 34 / 1186 | 97th | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 51 / 697 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Music | 29 / 196 | 85th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 250 / 1434 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 271 / 1137 | 76th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 323 / 1221 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of African Cultural Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 34 of 1186), Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 51 of 697) and Q1 in Music (rank 29 of 196), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of African Cultural Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.268, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
Journal of African Cultural Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1369-6815 and its online ISSN is 1469-9346.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of African Cultural Studies has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 1.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of African Cultural Studies published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 52. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.9%), Nigeria (11.5%) and South Africa (11.3%).
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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