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Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0856-096XVerify ISSN ↗2683-6408Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 238 / 1186 | 79th | Q1 |
| History | 664 / 1936 | 65th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 387 / 891 | 56th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 340 / 692 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 238 of 1186), Q2 in History (rank 664 of 1936) and Q2 in Philosophy (rank 387 of 891), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1, 79th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.210, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 4.
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0856-096X and its online ISSN is 2683-6408.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #318 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 28. 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 80 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Tanzania (84.2%), South Africa (6.7%) and Ghana (2.5%). 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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