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South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS.
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ISSN 1015-8812Verify ISSN ↗2222-3436Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 109 / 289 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 132 / 235 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences is Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 109 of 289) and Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 132 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.329, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$793 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.
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences is published by AOSIS. Its print ISSN is 1015-8812 and its online ISSN is 2222-3436.
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 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 81. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (73.6%), China (7.6%) and Indonesia (5.1%). 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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