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Nordic Journal of African Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Nordic Journal of African Studies, University of Copenhagen Centre of African Studies.
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ISSN 1459-9465Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nordic Journal of African Studies, University of Copenhagen Centre of African Studies
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 248 / 1186 | 79th | Q1 |
| History | 688 / 1936 | 64th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 690 / 1434 | 51st | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 571 / 1137 | 49th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 681 / 1221 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
Nordic Journal of African Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 248 of 1186), Q2 in History (rank 688 of 1936) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 690 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Nordic Journal of African Studies is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.130, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 5.
Nordic Journal of African Studies is published by Nordic Journal of African Studies, University of Copenhagen Centre of African Studies. Its ISSN is 1459-9465.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nordic Journal of African Studies has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Nordic Journal of African Studies published 1 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 7. 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 21 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from France (14.3%), Ghana (14.3%) and Denmark (14.3%).
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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