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Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd.
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ISSN 2633-2108Verify ISSN ↗2633-2116Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 639 / 1186 | 46th | Q3 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 476 / 692 | 31st | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 967 / 1221 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 639 of 1186), Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 476 of 692) and Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 967 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3, 46th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 2.
Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies is published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2633-2108 and its online ISSN is 2633-2116.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies published 19 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 31. 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.
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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