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Journal of the African Literature Association is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis.
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ISSN 2167-4736Verify ISSN ↗2167-4744Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 154 / 1186 | 87th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 554 / 1434 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of the African Literature Association is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 154 of 1186) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 554 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the African Literature Association 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 0.7, quartile Q1, 87th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.241, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 6.
Journal of the African Literature Association is published by Taylor and Francis. Its print ISSN is 2167-4736 and its online ISSN is 2167-4744.
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.
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 the African Literature Association has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #146 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of the African Literature Association published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 63. 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (50.5%), Nigeria (9.6%) and Germany (6.9%). 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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