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Journal of Southern African Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0305-7070Verify ISSN ↗1465-3893Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 220 / 692 | 68th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 790 / 1530 | 48th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 557 / 876 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Journal of Southern African Studies is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 220 of 692), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 790 of 1530) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 557 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Southern African Studies is indexed in the 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.283, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 64.
Journal of Southern African Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0305-7070 and its online ISSN is 1465-3893.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Southern African Studies has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #229 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of Southern African Studies published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 118. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (31.4%), United Kingdom (17.9%) and Germany (9.9%).
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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