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Modern Africa is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by University of Hradec Kralove, Philosophical Faculty.
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ISSN 2336-3274Verify ISSN ↗2570-7558Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Hradec Kralove, Philosophical Faculty
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 593 / 1936 | 69th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 623 / 1434 | 56th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 317 / 536 | 40th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1129 / 1530 | 26th | Q3 |
| Development | 272 / 314 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Modern Africa is Q2 in History (rank 593 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 623 of 1434) and Q3 in Anthropology (rank 317 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Modern 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 Q2, 69th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.147, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Modern Africa is published by University of Hradec Kralove, Philosophical Faculty. Its print ISSN is 2336-3274 and its online ISSN is 2570-7558.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Modern Africa has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #488 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Modern Africa published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 35. 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 63 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (19.6%), Nigeria (12.4%) and Ghana (7.9%).
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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