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African Affairs

ISSN 0001-9909 · Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · active 1901–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile (2025)
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
1.5
SJR
0.911
h-index
148

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 8 November 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, African Affairs is Q1 in all 2 of its subject categories.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of African Affairs in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Geography, Planning and DevelopmentQ1#140 of 853
Sociology and Political ScienceQ1#209 of 1,477
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
2.29
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
18

OpenAlex counts about 1.5 citations per paper over two years; Scopus, through Scimago, counts 2.29 per document. The two databases index different journals, documents and citations, so the figures differ. Neither is a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor.

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

African Affairs is Q1 in all 2 of its Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Geography, Planning and Development: Q1, #140 of 853), with SJR 0.911 (Scimago) and an h-index of 148 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

Indexed in
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
Access status:
hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

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Scope

africancultureanthropologyethnographysociologypoliticalsouthsociopoliticalissuesgeopoliticsglobalsocial

Frequently asked

Is African Affairs a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag African Affairs. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is African Affairs indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, African Affairs appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of African Affairs?

Papers in African Affairs are cited about 1.5 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 148. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is African Affairs (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, African Affairs is Q1 in all 2 of its subject categories. By category: Geography, Planning and Development: Q1, #140 of 853; Sociology and Political Science: Q1, #209 of 1,477. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; African Affairs is cited about 1.5 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 148.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of African Affairs?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for African Affairs. The open equivalent is its Scimago quartile, Q1, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is African Affairs open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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