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South African Journal of Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Academy of Science of South Africa.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0038-2353Verify ISSN ↗1996-7489Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academy of Science of South Africa
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 76 / 235 | 67th | Q2 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 80 / 201 | 60th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 115 / 223 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
South African Journal of Science is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 76 of 235), Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 80 of 201) and Q3 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 115 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.407, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 75.
South African Journal of Science is published by Academy of Science of South Africa. Its print ISSN is 0038-2353 and its online ISSN is 1996-7489.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Journal of Science has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 1.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
South African Journal of Science published 145 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 168. 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 61 research articles (2026), authors are most often from South Africa (78.2%), United Kingdom (4.4%) and United States (3.6%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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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