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SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION

SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION is indexed in Web of Science (ESCI), DOAJ. Published by SUNJOURNALS.

ISSN 1011-3487Verify ISSN ↗1753-5913Verify ISSN ↗

Publisher: SUNJOURNALS

WoS · ESCIOpen Access
2
Indexed in
major indexes

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ScopusElsevier Scopus
Not listed in Scopus.
ABDCAustralian Business Deans Council 2025
Not listed in ABDC.
DOAJDirectory of Open Access Journals (live)
Listed in DOAJ
Open accessFully open access, peer reviewed
FT50Financial Times research list
Not listed in FT50.
UT DallasUTD top-100 business research
Not listed in UT Dallas.
ONOS · APC coveredOne Nation One Subscription (Govt of India)
Not in the ONOS APC-supported list.
Publishing in this journal is not centrally APC-funded under One Nation One Subscription.

Is SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION indexed in Scopus? No — SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION is not currently indexed in Scopus.

What is the impact factor of SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION? SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for Web of Science SCIE and SSCI titles — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.

Is SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION in Web of Science? Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.

Is SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION open access? Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.

Impact & reach — open metrics via OpenAlex

49
h-index
1.47
2-yr mean citations
720
i10-index
2,767
works indexed
23,415
total citations
Papers published per year
01002002017: 112 papers11220172018: 106 papers10620182019: 102 papers10220192020: 96 papers9620202021: 110 papers11020212022: 102 papers10220222023: 85 papers8520232024: 78 papers7820242025: 96 papers9620252026: 38 papers so far382026*

SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION published 96 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 112. 2026* is the year so far.

Main topics
Higher Education Learning PracticesHigher Education Practises and EngagementHigher Education Governance and DevelopmentHigher Education and Employability

h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. Updated 2026-09-24.

Integrity signals — indicators, not proof of misconduct

  • Scopus statusNot in the Scopus source list
  • Retracted papers None recorded

Retractions and authorship from OpenAlex; Scopus status from the Scopus source list. A signal marks something to look at more closely; it is not a finding against the journal.

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