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Review of African Political Economy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.3), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0305-6244Verify ISSN ↗1740-1720Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 170 / 745 | 77th | Q1 |
| Development | 114 / 314 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 318 / 876 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.3.
Review of African Political Economy is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 170 of 745), Q2 in Development (rank 114 of 314) and Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 318 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Review of African Political Economy 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.735, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 65.
Review of African Political Economy is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0305-6244 and its online ISSN is 1740-1720.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the International Business and Area Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Review of African Political Economy has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #278 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Review of African Political Economy published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 58. 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 66 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (31.9%), United Kingdom (24.3%) and United States (10.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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