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Journal of Energy in Southern Africa is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by University of Cape Town.
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ISSN 1021-447XVerify ISSN ↗2413-3051Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Cape Town
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science (all) | 109 / 241 | 54th | Q2 |
| Energy (all) | 40 / 79 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 1993–2007), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa is Q2 in Computer Science (all) (rank 109 of 241) and Q2 in Energy (all) (rank 40 of 79), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.349, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$271 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 Energy in Southern Africa is published by University of Cape Town. Its print ISSN is 1021-447X and its online ISSN is 2413-3051.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #95 of 219 Scopus journals in Computer Science (all).
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 66. 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 64 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (65.6%), Rwanda (3.9%) and Malawi (2.3%). 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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