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Journal of Social Development in Africa is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by School of Social Work.
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ISSN 1012-1080Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: School of Social Work
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 736 / 876 | 16th | Q4 |
| Development | 271 / 314 | 13th | 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 2020–2025 (also 1986–2018), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal of Social Development in Africa is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 736 of 876) and Q4 in Development (rank 271 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Social Development in Africa 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 16th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.185, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of Social Development in Africa is published by School of Social Work. Its ISSN is 1012-1080.
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 Social Development in Africa has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 1.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #291 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Journal of Social Development in Africa published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 18. 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 25 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from Zimbabwe (45.3%), South Africa (28.3%) and Tanzania (8%).
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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