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SAIEE Africa Research Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by South African Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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ISSN 1991-1696Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Institute of Electrical Engineers
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 237 / 1030 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2017–2024, 2014), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
SAIEE Africa Research Journal is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 237 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025.
SAIEE Africa Research Journal 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.300, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$500 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
SAIEE Africa Research Journal is published by South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. Its ISSN is 1991-1696.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
SAIEE Africa Research Journal has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #457 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
SAIEE Africa Research Journal published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 43. 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 58 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (60.9%), China (6.9%) and Rwanda (6.3%). 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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